The first appearance of this man Ola in the official reports of the Philippine Government in connection with the Albay disturbances of 1902–3 is in the report of the colonel commanding the constabulary for the district which included Albay, Col. H. H. Bandholtz, dated June 30, 1903.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

The Bahama Islands were possess’d by the English till the Year 1700, when the French and Spaniards from Petit Guavus , invaded them, took the Fort and Governor in the Island of Providence , plunder’d and destroy’d the Settlements, &c. carried off half the Blacks, and the rest of the People, who fled to the Woods, retired afterwards to Carolina .
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

From this absolute zero of fertility, the pollen of different species applied to the stigma of some one species of the same genus, yields a perfect gradation in the number of seeds produced, up to nearly complete or even quite complete fertility; and, as we have seen, in certain abnormal cases, even to an excess of fertility, beyond that which the plant's own pollen produces.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

There, now—I’ve signed; make your promise good if you can.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Some of the major's neighbours likewise had no doubt of the identity of the animal, which, moreover, when taken to the farm entered of his own accord the stable, and the stall, the missing colt used to occupy, and, when let out into the adjoining pasture, greeted in a friendly way a former mate, and ran to drink at the customary watering place.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

The portly gentlemen in the front rows began to feel that she was a delicious little morsel.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

the principal growth is willow with the narrow leaf and Currant bushes.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The mischief lies in the deliberate suppression of the other side of the case: the refusal to allow Mrs Warren to expose the drudgery and repulsiveness of plying for hire among coarse, tedious drunkards; the determination not to let the Parisian girl in Brieux’s Les Avaries come on the stage and drive into people’s minds what her diseases mean for her and for themselves.
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

He writes about his wandering over fragrant furze and heath repeating Collins’s ‘Ode to Evening,’ just to catch the fine quality of the moment; about smothering his face ‘in a watery bed of cowslips, wet with May dews’; and about the pleasure of seeing the sweet-breathed kine ‘pass slowly homeward through the twilight,’ and hearing ‘the distant clank of the sheep-bell.’ One phrase of his, ‘the polyanthus glowed in its cold bed of earth, like a solitary picture of Giorgione on a dark oaken panel,’ is curiously characteristic of his temperament, and this passage is rather pretty in its way:— The short tender grass was covered with marguerites—‘such that men called daisies in our town’—thick as stars on a summer’s night.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

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— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

284-9 Parry, John, ii. 310, 312; iii. 172 Parry, Sir Hubert, P. and Judith , iii. 372 Pasta, Giuditta, i. 277 Pastimes, ii. 211, 339-49; iii. 287-303 Patti, Mme.
— from Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 4 (of 4).—1892-1914 by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

Nothing can prevent me, as far as I see, since that poor Galpin, in his utter confusion, has forgotten to put me under oath.”
— from Within an Inch of His Life by Emile Gaboriau

Perhaps God in His mercy thought our punishment already more than we could bear, and spared us a further visitation.
— from Fire and Sword in the Sudan A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895 by Slatin, Rudolf Carl, Freiherr von

“Financial Flurry, The,” by Parke Godwin, ii. 2.
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol 2/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder

Thus, in the conduct of our Jew, everything which preceded and followed his act, [Pg 160] and some of the circumstances of the act itself, were praiseworthy; his sole object was to preserve his benefactor: he took only what was required for that purpose: he kept nothing for himself, he scrupulously repaid the sum with interest, he did not even reserve any portion of the prize gained in the lottery, since, after having returned to the nobleman the two thousand five hundred pounds and interest, he gave the remainder to the manufacturer's children.
— from Popular Tales by Madame (Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline) Guizot

Let him speak in his own defence, in the lines from the great Jewish poem, "Jehudah Halevy": "As in Life so too in poetry Grace is aye Man's highest Good; Who has grace, he never sinneth Not in verse nor e'en in prose."
— from Modernities by Horace Barnett Samuel

Farewell, till we meet again, an' it please God in and not outside of our ladies' dwelling."
— from In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 02 by Georg Ebers

Granted that parental government is of a most mistaken sort in some cases, and that it is not perfect in any case, it still remains true that family affection furnishes one of mankind's [Pg 556] greatest joys, and that the love of the parent should, and even does, on the average, make the best protection and educator weak and clinging childhood can have.
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams

There were other forms of life, whose company I do not think I ever entirely evaded during my whole period as a lodger of the poorest grade in London.
— from The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson