On the 11th a strong division arrived from the Department of the Missouri under General Herron, which was placed on our left.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

To meet this movement under General Hunter, General Lee sent a force, perhaps equal to a corps, a part of which reached Lynchburg a short time before Hunter.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Lismahago, who seemed to grow cool as my uncle grew hot, assured her he had a very great respect for Mr Bramble, but he had still more for his own honour, which had suffered pollution; but if that could be once purified, he should have no further cause of dissatisfaction.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

While this method undoubtedly gave him much help in his search for truth, it also not unfrequently led him astray.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

We have large and deep caves of several depths: the deepest are sunk six hundred fathom: and some of them are digged and made under great hills and mountains: so that if you reckon together the depth of the hill and the depth of the cave, they are (some of them) above three miles deep.
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

My uncle gave her away, and her friend Willis supported her during the ceremony.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Ang íyang swildu musubra ug gatus human ug báyad sa mga útang, His salary will be a bit more than a hundred after he pays off his debts.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Mitugbung siya kay mipalit ug ginamus, He went down to the town to buy fish paste.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"We're bound not to tell, and you can't get out of it, for he made us give him our word 'on the honour of a gentleman;' and that settles it, you know."
— from Two Little Knights of Kentucky by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

General Schofield was in command of Northern Missouri, under General Halleck.
— from The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin

Learn, my two dear friends, that the sacred white peacock brought to these misty shores for my undying glory, has been lost to me!
— from The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer

In all such traditions Hawker is a most unsafe guide; he did not consciously "falsify the books," but he had misled many who came after, particularly the popular guide-books, by his looseness and his play of fancy.
— from The Cornwall Coast by Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon

Few of our many upstart generals have more illiberal sentiments, and more vulgar and insolent manners, than General Lasnes.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

To meet this movement under Gen. Hunter, General Lee sent a force equal to a corps, a part of which reached Lynchburg before Hunter.
— from Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by J. Newton (John Newton) Terrill