"I will not prejudice you beforehand," Ulrich said.
— from The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann

Subsequently, by Executive order dated November 9th, 1871, a reservation was set apart for them with other roving bands of Apaches in the Tularosa Valley, to which place 450 of them are reported to have been removed during the present year by United States troops.
— from A Century of Dishonor A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes by Helen Hunt Jackson

"Now, whatever has put your back up?" said the Terror in a tone of even greater amazement.
— from The Terrible Twins by Edgar Jepson

"Have you used all the potatoes you brought up?" said one of the men; "for we shall be short of provisions.
— from The Little Savage by Frederick Marryat

—Why, sir, I'm sorry to say that as fast as I put your bills up, somebody else comes and pulls them down.
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

From every battery along the mainland and on the islands, the storm of projectiles yet beat upon Sumter, and, at intervals, the fort replied, still using the light guns.
— from The Guns of Bull Run: A Story of the Civil War's Eve by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Inflorescence appearing with the leaves in spring; sterile catkins from terminal or lateral buds on shoots of the preceding year, bracted, usually several in a cluster, unbranched, long, cylindrical, pendulous; bracts of sterile flowers minute, soon falling; calyx parted or lobed; stamens 3-12, undivided: fertile flowers terminal or axillary upon the new shoots, single or few-clustered, bracted, erect; involucre scaly, becoming the cupule or cup around the lower part of the acorn; ovary 3-celled; stigma 3-lobed.
— from Handbook of the Trees of New England by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks