Almost within two months of the last treaties another one was concluded at Washington on January 7, 1806, by which the Cherokee ceded their claim to a large tract between Duck river and the Tennessee, embracing nearly seven thousand square miles in Tennessee and Alabama, together with the Long island (Great island) in Holston river, which up to this time they had claimed as theirs.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Donald did not return at the time expected, nor for long after it; at last his master, who was watching anxiously for him, discerned him at a long distance on the road on foot, creeping at a snail's pace, and towing the reluctant quadruped by the bridle.
— from Recollections of the War of 1812 by William Dunlop

Those previously offered are keyed to the transcript page of the Record, and to their exhibit numbers.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 5 by Various

What would you have for your choice, if you could get it?" "Stories to read, and theatre tickets every night," said Grace Toppings.
— from The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

His book will prove as interesting to the general reader as to the enthusiastic naturalist.”
— from Jungle Folk: Indian Natural History Sketches by Douglas Dewar

Necessarily reticent as to the exact nature of the steps that are being taken to deal with the sea-highwaymen, he made the comforting announcement that already we had achieved very considerable success.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 21, 1917 by Various

Has she not been blamed in regard to the long insurrections in Sierra Leone; to the disturbed state of Nigeria, where quite recently, according to the English newspapers, military measures of repression cost, on one single occasion, the lives of 700 natives, of most of their Chiefs, and of the Sultan; and to the conflict in Somaliland, which is being carried on at the cost of many lives, without, however, exciting expressions of regret in the House of Commons, except on the score of the heavy expense?
— from Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo [and Further Correspondence] by Roger Casement

To familiarise himself with the system the reader is recommended to study, with the aid of the board, the following example, a "Ruy Lopez" game, recorded according to the English notation.
— from Hoyle's Games Modernized by Professor Hoffmann

Hitherto they had not the means of raising a temple, though every neighboring nation had one or more.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 06 by Voltaire