I myself helped to rescue cattle and things, nothing alive burnt, except a flight of pigeons, which flew into the fire, and the yard dog, of which I had not thought; one could hear him howl out of the fire, and this howling I still hear when I wish to sleep; and when I have fallen asleep, the great rough dog comes and places himself upon me, and howls, presses, and tortures me.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

a restitution or restoration of any thing to its former state; hence, change from worse to better, melioration, introduction of a new and better era, Ac. 3.21.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

This cession was concluded at a treaty of peace held with the Georgia commissioners at Augusta in the next year, and was confirmed later by the Creeks, who claimed an interest in the same lands, but was never accepted by either as the voluntary act of their tribe as a whole.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

A lean cheek, which you have not; a blue eye and sunken, which you have not; an unquestionable spirit, which you have not; a beard neglected, which you have not; but I pardon you for that, for simply your having in beard is a younger brother's revenue.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Well, not a body eat a bite at breakfast that morning.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

But, of course, it's all nonsense about being 'expelled' as a punishment; she was leaving of her own accord."
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Indeed, we should have been inevitably lost if we had not continually held our weapons in our hands, kept patrolling and watching day and night, and boldly encountered all weathers.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Normally, a BITNET email address looks like this: NOTRBCAT@INDYCMS The part to the left of the @-character is the users' mailbox code.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Page 113 CHAPTER II PHIL'S NEW FRIEND Old black Joe had not always been either a boot-black or fiddler.
— from The Adventures of Prince Lazybones, and Other Stories by Helen Ashe Hays

She was very handsome, with hair as brown as October nuts and black eyes and crimson cheeks; and she had always been in love with Neil Campbell herself.
— from The Story Girl by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

But what do you mean by occupying yourself with the bad jokes which have been circulating in a few newspapers, and by even accusing me of having been the cause of them?
— from Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 by Franz Liszt

He had in mind a general neutrality agreement between England and Germany, though it was of course at the present moment too early to discuss details, and an assurance of British neutrality in the conflict which present crisis might possibly produce, would enable him to look forward to realisation of his desire.
— from Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) by University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History

I might have treated it as an act of the past government, with which I had no cause to interfere, and joined in asserting the impossibility of his defraying the vast expense of his court and household without it, which I could have proved by plausible arguments, drawn from the actual amount of the nizamut and bhela establishments; and both the Nabob and Begum would have liberally purchased my forbearance.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Rosalind: "A lean cheek, which you have not , a blue eye and sunken, which you have not … a beard neglected, which you have not … Then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and everything about you demonstrating a careless desolation."
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

He avowed to them that he was a sincere convert to the Church of England, and thanked God "who had brought him to the promised land, to a country where religion was purely professed, and where he sate among grave, reverend, and learned men; not as before, elsewhere, a king without state, without honour, and without order, and braved to his face by beardless boys under the garb of ministers."
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous