He said in a letter to his friend Paterson: Retirement and Nature are more and more my passion every day; and now, even now, the charming time comes on; Heaven is just on the point, or rather in the very act, of giving earth a green gown.
— from The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese

Tarleton passed through the place of Morgan's camp in the evening, a few hours after he had left, Jan. 16, 1781 and leaving his baggage behind, he pressed eagerly forward in pursuit, riding all night, and making a circuit around the western side of Thicketty Mountain.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

Tarleton pressed eagerly forward in pursuit, riding all night, and making a circuit around the western side of the mountain.
— from Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical Illustrating Principally the Revolutionary Period of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Lincoln and Adjoining Counties, Accompanied with Miscellaneous Information, Much of It Never before Published by C. L. Hunter

Of course, a road can be built for a much less sum, but such a road would not compete with the present line, for certainly the present rates are not as much as it would cost to haul the tonnage over a cheap line that could be built for much, if any, less than the figure named.
— from Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific by Stuart Daggett