The disordered, hurrying lines of the enemy could sometimes be seen down through the groves and little fields.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

Hooker, taking a single theme, the law and practice of the English Church, so handled it that no scholar even of the present day would dream of superseding it or of building upon any other foundation than that which Hooker laid down.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

It was this controversy, centring round the Royal Arch degree, that about the middle of the eighteenth century split Masonry into opposing camps of Ancients and Moderns, the Ancients declaring that the R.A. was "the Root, Heart, and Marrow of Freemasonry," 354 the Moderns rejecting it.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

"By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The latter part of the eighteenth century saw tens of millions of pounds of coffee being shipped yearly to the mother countries of western Europe; and for decades, the two great coffee trade currents of the world continued to run from the West Indies to France, England, Holland, and Germany; and from the Dutch East Indies to Holland.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

These sources have become of little importance since the invention of artificial soda by Leblanc toward the end of the eighteenth century (see Soda in CD. ).
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Before the end of the eighth century, some apostolic scribe, perhaps the notorious Isidore, composed the decretals, and the donation of Constantine, the two magic pillars of the spiritual and temporal monarchy of the popes.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But London 's so well lit, that if Diogenes Could recommence to hunt his honest man, And found him not amidst the various progenies Of this enormous city's spreading span, 'T were not for want of lamps to aid his dodging his Yet undiscover'd treasure.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

This brought forward the great question of privilege, on the determination of which the power of the House of Commons, and consequently the character of the English constitution, seemed evidently to depend.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 2 of 3 by Henry Hallam

What helped me most, and the only thing that helped me at all, except caresses, was the broad and free expanse of the ever changing sea.
— from Clara Vaughan, Volume 3 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

"Such a promise," said Jubbar Khan, the Ameer's brother, and a staunch champion of the English cause, "such a promise amounts to nothing, for we are not under the apprehension of any aggressions from Lahore; they have hitherto been on the side of the Ameer, not of Runjeet Singh, and yet for such a promise you expect us to desist from all intercourse with Russia, with Persia, with Toorkistan, with every nation but [20] England."
— from The First Afghan War by Mowbray Morris

That extensive tract of the earth, containing so great a variety of situation, climate, and soil, should, in the manners of its inhabitants, exhibit all the diversities which arise from the unequal influence of the sun, joined to a different nourishment and manner of life.
— from An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition by Adam Ferguson

Should the President of the Executive Council die, resign or be permanently incapacitated, the Vice-President of the Executive Council shall act in his place until a President of the Executive Council shall be elected.
— from The Irish Constitution Explained by Darrell Figgis by Darrell Figgis

But I, because my sight was dimmed with much weeping, and I could not tell who was this woman of authority so commanding—I was dumfoundered, and, with my gaze fastened on the earth, continued silently to await what she might do next.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

You, in place of fifteen thousand dollars' worth of stock as your share for the patent rights, will have thirty thousand dollars' worth, or three hundred shares, and if, after we have started operating, the Eureka Company should buy us out at only a million, you would have a hundred thousand dollars net profit."
— from Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford A Cheerful Account of the Rise and Fall of an American Business Buccaneer by George Randolph Chester

The chairman of the executive committee stated to the meeting that, at a conference of committeemen representing the eight lodges, held on the preceding evening, it had been decided to submit the question of shutting down the mechanical department of the mills to the steelworkers en masse , irrespective of affiliation with the lodges, and that the decision thus arrived at should be binding on all.
— from Homestead A Complete History of the Struggle of July, 1892, between the Carnegie-Steel Company, Limited, and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers by Arthur Gordon Burgoyne

These works seem to have been of an enduring character, for the Venerable Bede, writing at the commencement of the eighth century, states that some of the stakes retained their position even in his day.
— from The Lake Dwellings of Ireland Or ancient lacustrine habitations of Erin, commonly called crannogs. by W. G. (William Gregory) Wood-Martin

At the signal of the siren the lights of the entire city suddenly snuff out, and the city or town or village is in total darkness.
— from Soldier Silhouettes on Our Front by William L. (William Le Roy) Stidger