The Senators and People retire in confusion.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

' Vicksburg is a town of substantial business streets and pleasant residences; it commands the commerce of the Yazoo and Sunflower Rivers; is pushing railways in several directions, through rich agricultural regions, and has a promising future of prosperity and importance.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Their not calling confirmed Caroline’s belief that she and her brother were deliberately shunned because of their change in circumstances, and she grew more sensitive and proudly resentful in consequence.
— from Cap'n Warren's Wards by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Breast of chicken, James Woods. Remove the skin from a nice young roasting chicken, lift off the breasts, season with salt and pepper, roll in cream, then in flour, and fry in butter.
— from The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book by Victor Hirtzler

In 1836 the Septembrists stimulated a popular rising in consequence of which the constitution of 1822 was declared again in effect until a new one should have been devised, and, April 4, 1838, there was brought forward under Septembrist auspices an instrument in which it was provided that an elected senate should take the place of the aristocratic House of Peers for which the Charter provided, and that elections to the House of Deputies should thenceforth be direct.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

With one of those concerted impulses to which men no less than women are subject, the young bloods of Bath House, the moment they saw Anne Percy radiant in colour, with an even deeper blush and brighter eyes than usual, determined that [Pg 148] she and she alone should be the belle of the evening.
— from The Gorgeous Isle: A Romance; Scene-- Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

BROILED POMPANO—III Clean and split the fish, rub with oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper, roll in crumbs, and broil.
— from How to Cook Fish by Myrtle Reed

Three men were left to guard the horses and the gate, and two more to patrol the borders of the moat, while magistrate, attorney, king’s rider, and the rest spread themselves abroad to ransack the place, keeping their steel and powder ready in case they might come to grips with desperate men.
— from Mad Barbara by Warwick Deeping

It may, indeed, be objected that these opening stanzas are perilously realistic in character where poetry is concerned, fitted rather for the pages of Dickens or of Gissing than for their present position.
— from Browning and Dogma Seven Lectures on Browning's Attitude Towards Dogmatic Religion by Ethel M. Naish

I felt revenged for my wound and at having to run so in retreat at the Monocacy, and for my two wounds that day even if I did totteringly tarry, maimed and speechless with paralyzed tongue, chin and blanched face to look at such a brilliant battle scene until I became so faint from loss of blood, shock and partial reaction, I could hardly go steadily and finally did accept help, having declined at first, from two faithful men of my Company who, when I fell instead of stampeding stayed by me in one of the hottest places I have ever been in on a battlefield, one of whom was Corporal Joel Walker of Pownal, Vt.
— from Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary, 1864 by Lemuel Abijah Abbott

The realization gave her a momentary start, as Purdy reined in close beside her; but a glance into the man's face reassured her.
— from The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

The following typographical errors have been corrected by the text transcriber: worshiping=>worshipping changes takes place=>changes take place is an impuse=>is an impulse center of continous=>center of continuous a starvling beggar at the gates=>a starving beggar at the gates of fool nations about sex=>of fool notions about sex any personal right in contravened=>any personal right is contravened industrial evoluton=>industrial evolution to the poeple=>to the people Social revoluton=>Social revolution her hands and and feet=>her hands and her feet Liebault=>Liébault Sienkewicz's "Whirlpools"=>Sienkiewicz's "Whirlpools" Magna Charta, 134=>Magna Carta, 134
— from The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair