Algo′ma, a district of Canada, on the north of Lake Superior, forming part of the north-west portion of Ontario, rich in silver, copper, iron, &c. Algon′kins, or Algonquins, a family of North American Indians, formerly spread over a great extent of territory, and still forming a large proportion of the Indians of Canada.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various
Or wuz you that John Smith I knew out yonder in the West,— That part of our Republic I shall always love the best!
— from Second Book of Verse by Eugene Field
Or wuz you that John Smith I knew out yonder in the West— That part of our republic I shall always love the best?
— from John Smith, U.S.A. by Eugene Field
Alan's achates at once thought of that probability, or of revenge in some form.
— from The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, January 1876 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad by Various
I expose myself to unfavourable comparison with other people of our rank in society.”
— from Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time by Wilkie Collins
Most of the figures are painted on overhanging rocks in such a way as to be protected as much as possible against wind and weather; whether they bear any relation to the signs on the rocks of Papua, and what that relation may be, I am not yet able to judge.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery
All the walls are more or less destroyed; the small portion of one remaining is shown in plate 13, b .
— from Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Gerard Fowke
In India and in many of our Colonies the absence of satisfactory means for identifying persons of other races is seriously felt.
— from Finger Prints by Francis Galton
But that which has given the Deal boatmen a niche in the temple of fame and made them a part and parcel of our 'rough island story,' is their heroic rescues and their triumphs over all the terrors of the Goodwin Sands.
— from Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Thomas Stanley Treanor
They apparently think little of their own splendid deeds, and seldom speak of them, especially to strangers; yet they are part, and not the least glorious part, of our 'rough island story.'
— from Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Thomas Stanley Treanor
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