One day, as I was riding the line near a farm known as Parson Fog's, I heard that the family of a Mr. Wilkinson, of New Orleans, was "refugeeing" at a house near by.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

In such a world logic would have had no application; for kind and sameness of kind are logic's only instruments.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

At this time he was quite a young man, but had a certain natural aptitude for kingcraft and the politic conduct of affairs.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

For this reason the government, summer after summer, drove its sailors on along the Taimyr and Bering peninsulas; for this reason, in 1740, it enjoined upon D. Laptjef to make a last attempt to double northeast Asia from Kamchatka, and this would undoubtedly have been accomplished if the unfortunate death of Bering had not occurred shortly after;
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

One was an old needle-woman of Saint-Cast, who had such fear of fées that if she was on her way to do some sewing in the country, and it was night, she always took a long circuitous route to avoid passing near a field known as the Couvent des Fées .
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

The warning, however, was of no avail, for Kбъs accepted the proffered hospitality of his new father-in-law.
— from The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 by Firdawsi

It is by these part payments that notes are frequently kept alive for a long series of years.
— from Commercial Law by Richard William Hill

Cleaue logs now all, for kitchen and hall.
— from Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser

Also he brought me many things from Maybole and elsewhere—oranges and wine that had been shipped to Irvine from foreign parts, neckerchiefs also for Kate and her mother.
— from The Grey Man by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

When the British began to swarm into South Carolina he raised and drilled a company of his neighbors and friends known as "Marion's Brigade."
— from American Leaders and Heroes: A preliminary text-book in United States History by Wilbur F. (Wilbur Fisk) Gordy

Yet they are going to burn a Negro alive for killing a sheriff.
— from The Soul of John Brown by Stephen Graham

I have reasons beyond a personal regard for speaking as little as I can of the Dorrit family, particularly at my mother’s house’ (Mr Pancks nodded), ‘and for knowing as much as I can.
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens