I still continued so weak that I was quite unable to assist in the field, and my good old Jenny was sorely troubled with inflamed feet, which required constant care.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

return to footnote mark Footnote 2: provoked to return Contents Contents p.6 No. 180 Wednesday, September 26, 1711 Steele ...
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

For the above two reasons, coherence cannot be accepted as giving the meaning of truth, though it is often a most important test of truth after a certain amount of truth has become known.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Panurge, on the gunnel of the ship, with an oar in his hand, not to help them you may swear, but to keep them from swimming to the ship and saving themselves from drowning, preached and canted to them all the while like any little Friar (Oliver) Maillard, or another Friar John Burgess; laying before them rhetorical commonplaces concerning the miseries of this life and the blessings and felicity of the next; assuring them that the dead were much happier than the living in this vale of misery, and promised to erect a stately cenotaph and honorary tomb to every one of them on the highest summit of Mount Cenis at his return from Lanternland; wishing them, nevertheless, in case they were not yet disposed to shake hands with this life, and did not like their salt liquor, they might have the good luck to meet with some kind whale which might set them ashore safe and sound on some blessed land of Gotham, after a famous example.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

return Contents Contents p.3 Sir Galahad Published in 1842.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

"He really isn't a man," rejoined Chia Chen, "accustomed to give much of his time to the practice of medicine, in order to earn rice for his support: and it's Feng Tzu-ying, who is so friendly with us, who is mainly to be thanked for succeeding, after ever so much trouble, in inducing him to come.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

128 Ross, John , president of constitutional convention 112 Ross, John , proclamation by 120 Ross, John , proposition for removal by 132 Ross, John , protest against removal treaty by 120 Ross, John , refusal of President Jackson to communicate with 126 Ross, John , signer of act of union 135 Ross, John , suit against Georgia by 119 Ross, John , threat of arrest 135 Ross, W. P. , editor of Cherokee Advocate 111 Ross, W. P. on death of Sequoya 148 Ross , ——, on Indian warfare in 1776 52 Ross , —— on Williamson’s expedition 50 Royce, C. C. , on adoption of Cherokee constitution 113 , 135 Royce, C. C. on Arkansas Cherokee 137 , 138 , 140 , 141 , 142 Royce, C. C. on arrest of Ross 123 Royce, C. C. on attack on Buchanans station 73 Royce, C. C. on attempted establishment of iron works in Cherokee country (1807) 86 Royce, C. C. on attempted purchase by Tennessee (1807) 86 Royce, C. C. on attempt to annul treaty of 1817 104 Royce, C. C. on Blount’s proposal (1795) 80 Royce, C. C. on building of Unicoi turnpike 87 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee attitude regarding land cession (1830) 119 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee census (1835) 125 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee desire to go west (1817–19) 104 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee emigration, 1817–19 103 , 104 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee invitations to Delawares, Shawano, and Oneida 105 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee land cessions 34 , 45 , 54 , 60 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee loss in Civil war 149 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee memorial to Congress (1834) 121 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee memorials to President Monroe 115 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee part in French and Indian war 39 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee part in Civil war 148 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee population 34 [ 569 ] Royce, C. C. , on Cherokee project to remove to Columbia river 120 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee relations with Creeks 383 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee relations with Tuscarora 32 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee suffering through Civil war 150 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee territory in 1800 81 Royce, C. C. on Cherokee war of 1760–61 45 Royce, C. C. on clearing of East Cherokee title to Qualla reservation 174 Royce, C. C. on Col. R. J. Meigs 215 Royce, C. C. on council at New Echota 122 Royce, C. C. on Davis’s letter to Secretary of War 127 Royce, C. C. on death of Sequoya 148 Royce, C. C. on deaths during Removal 133 Royce, C. C. on delegation to Washington (1835) 122 Royce, C. C. on desire for Indian lands 85 Royce, C. C. on destruction of Chickamauga towns 79 Royce, C. C. on General Dunlap’s address 128 Royce, C. C. on East Cherokee censuses 167 , 168 Royce, C. C. on East Cherokee participation in Removal fund 167 Royce, C. C. on Everett’s letter to Secretary of War 128 Royce, C. C. on extension of Georgia laws 221 Royce, C. C. on first railroad in Cherokee country 151 Royce, C. C. on Georgia acts effecting Cherokee 116 , 117 Royce, C. C. on Governor Gilmer’s declaration 129 Royce, C. C. on imprisonment of missionaries 120 Royce, C. C. on incorporation of Delawares and Shawano 151 Royce, C. C. on Indian war path 206 , 207 Royce, C. C. on Jackson’s attitude toward Cherokee 117 Royce, C. C. on Jefferson’s removal project 101 Royce, C. C. on McMinn’s estimate of Cherokee emigration 106 Royce, C. C. on massacre of Scott party and Bowl migration 100 Royce, C. C. on opposition to allotment project (1820) 114 Royce, C. C. on origin of Chickamauga band 54 Royce, C. C. on party feeling over removal plans 129 Royce, C. C. on payment of East Cherokee share in Removal fund 168 Royce, C. C. on Ross’s attitude during civil war 149 Royce, C. C. on Ross’s last efforts against removal 130 Royce, C. C. on royal proclamation of 1763 46 Royce, C. C. on Rutherford’s route 205 Royce, C. C. on Schermerhorn’s proposals for securing acceptance of Ridge treaty 122 Royce, C. C. on Scott’s proclamation 130 Royce, C. C. on Sweatland’s census 172 Royce, C. C. on Tellico conference 79 Royce, C. C. on threat to arrest Ross 135 Royce, C. C. on treaties of New Echota 123 , 125 , 159 Royce, C. C. on treaties of Tellico (1798, 1804, 1805) 81 , 85 Royce, C. C. on treaties of Washington (1816, 1819, 1846) 98 , 106 , 148 Royce, C. C. on treaty of Augusta 61 Royce, C. C. on treaty of Cherokee agency (1834) 120 Royce, C. C. on treaty of Chickasaw Old Fields (1807) 86 Royce, C. C. on treaty of Fort Gibson 125 Royce, C. C. of treaty of Holston 69 Royce, C. C. on treaty of Hopewell 62 Royce, C. C. on treaty of Philadelphia (1794)
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

V. leap; jump up, jump over the moon; hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp, cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper; buck, buck jump; curvet, caracole; foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start; frisk &c. (amusement) 840; jump about &c. (agitation) 315; trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

After this volley the regimental commander clutched at his leg; several soldiers fell, and a second lieutenant who was holding the flag let it fall from his hands.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

What interested me most was his exceptionally large, or even, if I remember rightly, complete collection of Sebastian Bach's cantatas in most excellent copies.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

While the lady at the needle kept up a little running, contemptuous comment: “Blagueur—farceur—gros bete, va!”
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

"Have at him, lads!" Then Will and a score of yeomen leaped upon the stranger, but though they sprang quickly they found him ready and felt him strike right and left with his stout staff, so that, though he went down with press of numbers, some of them rubbed cracked crowns before he was overcome.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

However, it's an ill wind that doesn't blow somebody good—Marse Robert can come on back upstairs now an' thaw himself out while watchin' me read the Lamentations of Jeremiah—who was evidently sufferin' from a dry spell himself."
— from Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler

Then D'Estaing sailed away again, and the second effort of France to aid England's revolted colonies came to an end.
— from George Washington, Volume I by Henry Cabot Lodge

“Furthermore: If reduced carrying charges would enable American merchants to capture Brazilian trade by reducing selling prices, why wouldn’t reduced carrying charges tend toward lower selling prices in the United States?
— from Postal Riders and Raiders by W. H. Gantz

From the road came creakings and grumblings as some surly guns were dragged away.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

He had been entertaining a regular callithumpian parade of Red Cross commissioners from America, and he probably felt that he had seen the worst and that this was just another cross.
— from The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White

It was thus not a little anomalous that in a British settlement, founded under the auspices of such a redoubted [48] antipapist as Queen Elizabeth, there was a Roman Catholic church with a priest in charge, yet neither a church nor a pastor of the established religion.
— from The Story of Madras by Glyn Barlow