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The [457] leaders thus arrested, the Chondawats sallied forth and attacked their camp in the valley, which surrendered; though the regulars under Hearsey [36] retreated in a hollow square, and reached Gadarmala in safety.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod
It was quite short, and ran: "GENTLEMEN, "I shall be much obliged by your paying the enclosed cheque from Messrs. Hanbury and Johnson for £12,046 into the account of Mrs. Helena Truslove.
— from The Loudwater Mystery by Edgar Jepson
You remember I told you a year ago, when he was first brought in, I thought him the noblest specimen of a young Western man I had seen, a real giant in size, and always with a smile on his face.
— from The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion by Walt Whitman
The crowd of strangers and Romans gathered in St. Peter's, though not so large as on the day of the opening, was still immense.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various
Minuscule, 1 ; modern Roman, 52 , 53 , 56 , 57 , 64 ; monumental uses, 57 ; composition of, 64 ; growing use of, 76 , 122 ; spacing of, 57 ; (see also, Roman, Gothic, Italic, Script).
— from Letters & Lettering: A Treatise with 200 Examples by Frank Chouteau Brown
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