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The result of the election was a division of the electoral votes into four parts and no one received a majority.
— from History of the United States by Mary Ritter Beard
But to bet on both Passe and Noir or Rouge and Manque at the same time, two separate states would be required.
— from Hoyle's Games Modernized by Professor Hoffmann
Later, there took place a number of revolts against machinery, in which the occurrences were almost precisely the same as those of the printers’ disturbances in Bohemia in 1844; factories were demolished and machinery destroyed.
— from The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Friedrich Engels
“We might kill a few of the Redskins; but unless the travellers possess a number of rifles, and make a bold stand, we cannot help them.
— from Afar in the Forest by William Henry Giles Kingston
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