Slowly, with stiff ropes and iced rigging, we swung the yards round, everything coming hard, and with a creaking and rending sound, like pulling up a plank which had been frozen into the ice.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

The Railway Extension Conference held at Johannesburg in March 1903 sanctioned the immediate construction of most of the lines mentioned above, and recommended the others as objects to aim at when sufficient funds were at the disposal of the Government.
— from The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction by John Buchan

The effect of this convention, composed of twenty-two burgesses, representing eleven "cities," "hundreds," and "plantations," was greatly to restrict the governor's power, heretofore quite absolute.
— from The Colonies, 1492-1750 by Reuben Gold Thwaites

After this he had a second, and then a third, attack; [Pg 197] but his brother, praying in his right ear, comforted him and finally cured him, for he was never after tormented.
— from Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

"They hold you in high regard; even captain Homecht and his daughter, Kasana."
— from Joshua — Volume 1 by Georg Ebers

After leaving this school he went abroad again for some months; and in October, 1822, became the pupil of the Rev. E. C. Hawtrey, an Assistant Master of Eton College.
— from Spare Hours by John Brown

Ye could tell it was night an’ day down thar because near’ all them rooms er caves had a winder looking out on the sink.
— from The Aeroplane Express; or, The Boy Aeronaut's Grit by H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler

Wherefore they having received each commander his authority, at the hand of their King, the day being appointed, and the place of their rendezvous prefixed, each commander appeared in such gallantry as became his cause and calling.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Good-bye.” CHAPTER XIX M r. Ernest Clifton had a good deal to think about; but, as he was usually in this condition, he did not feel greatly inconvenienced.
— from According to Plato by Frank Frankfort Moore

" "When you leave the railroad, everything comes high, as you're going to find out.
— from Partners of the Out-Trail by Harold Bindloss

After leaving this school, he went abroad again for some months; and, in October 1822, became the pupil of the Rev. E. C. Hawtrey, an Assistant Master of Eton College.
— from Horae subsecivae. Rab and His Friends, and Other Papers by John Brown