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— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

tǣlwierðlicnes (eo 2 ) f. reprehensible conduct, blameableness , CP 52 15 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

A revolution cannot be cut off short.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Revolution , Cherokee remembrance of 232 Revolution , effect on Cherokee of 61 Revolution , Indian attitude during 46 – 47 Rheumatism , Cherokee beliefs concerning 251 , 263 Richmond , Lieutenant, murder of Cheyennes by 209 Rickahockan , meaning of name 183 – 184 Rickahockan , see also Synonomy .
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The result of all this was that not only a right created by covenant, but the action of covenant itself, might in such cases go to assigns, although not mentioned, at a time when such mention was essential to give them the benefit of a warranty.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

If we have really no idea of a power or efficacy in any object, or of any real connexion betwixt causes and effects, it will be to little purpose to prove, that an efficacy is necessary in all operations.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Early in the morning of the 28th January, 1881, he moved to the attack “with the 58th regiment, commanded by Colonel Deane, a mounted squadron of 70 men, the 60th Rifles, the Naval Brigade with three rocket tubes, and the Artillery with six guns.”
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

In such a case the reward cannot be claimed, because the alleged consideration has not been furnished on the faith of the offer.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

It sometimes achieves results which astound even the originators, but these results cannot be calculated (except by hunch) in advance.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Fred took the lead now, and they went steadily back, feeling their way along by the damp wall, and casting back from time to time regretful looks at the bright star of light, which grew less and less, and then disappeared; but as it passed from sight, they saw to their great delight that there was a faint dawn, as it were, on ahead, and this grew brighter and brighter, till they seemed to turn a corner, and saw the bright rays shooting down through the hole, which they reached with a rather confused but correct notion that about here the passage took a double curve, somewhat in the shape of the letter S; but they were too eager to get out into the wood again to give much attention to the configuration of the place.
— from Crown and Sceptre: A West Country Story by George Manville Fenn

Before this long and extremely difficult route could be completed, however, other, more likely, plans were formulated, and the Lake Providence expedition was recalled.
— from Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi by William C. Everhart

We saw baskets of milled rice carried by coolies sealed with a pattern laid over the surface by sprinkling some colored powder upon it.
— from Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King

“River cattle— bosque cattle—outlaws!” said Johnny.
— from Stepsons of Light by Eugene Manlove Rhodes

Blanket-Roll Pack Side-trips from camp for only one night's bivouac will not need a back pack; the few articles required can be carried in your blanket-roll.
— from On the Trail: An Outdoor Book for Girls by Lina Beard

"The steady and soldierlike conduct of the detachment of the 1st West India Regiment commanded by Captain Stewart, the Court cannot too highly estimate; and it begs, as a testimony of its lasting regard, to be allowed to present to the Mess, through Captain Stewart, the sum of two hundred guineas, to be laid out in plate."
— from The History of the First West India Regiment by A. B. (Alfred Burdon) Ellis

But the region could not be regarded as conquered, it could not be permanently held, unless the strongly fortified posts which commanded it, and which were in the hands of Rome, could be captured.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 7: The Sassanian or New Persian Empire The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

My duty was to be his automaton, the human equivalent of a marine engine whose revolutions can be counted and used as data by the navigator.
— from The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers

If the Rancocus could be carried to America, no one belonging to her was yet legally exonerated from his duties.
— from The Crater; Or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific by James Fenimore Cooper

9. St. Peter: A. Schubert, Philip Zapf, Robert C. Beer, Carl Goehling.
— from The Lutherans of New York Their Story and Their Problems by George Unangst Wenner