J. B. TEMPLE, President Military Board of Kentucky.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

I have procured many birds of kinds new to me here, and have preserved them.
— from My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

If for any reason a parcel cannot be sent by the regular [Pg 136] delivery, and employee is to carry it home, these parcels must be O. K.'d by the proper party.
— from How Department Stores Are Carried On by W. B. (Wesley Briggs) Phillips

Now Briggs seemed a distorted, comical pygmy as he ordered the servants to pass more bottles of kill-devil down the table, where the planters and their wives continued to slosh it into their pewter tankards of lemon punch.
— from Caribbee by Thomas Hoover

His portraits may be often known by the curls being thrown behind the back, while in Lely’s portraits they fall over the shoulders and chest.
— from Haunted London by Walter Thornbury

If poor Mrs. Blumenfeld only knew!
— from A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner

For the elucidation of the developmental processes of such organisms as trypanosomes, spirochætes and piroplasms, fresh preparations may be often kept under observation longer by the use of a thermostat, maintained at or near blood heat, in which the microscope is inserted.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

Running his hand over the piano, Montgomery begged of Kate to continue her story; but as she proceeded with the analysis of her passion the events became more and more difficult to narrate; and she knew not how to tell the tale how one dark night her husband sent her down to open the door to Dick; but she must tell everything so that the whole of the blame should not fall upon him.
— from A Mummer's Wife by George Moore