[ 207 ] thence southwest, crossing Ocoee river near its mouth, passing south of Cleveland, through the present Ooltewah and across Chickamauga creek into Georgia and Alabama.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

We should have greater confidence in it as a history, if it did not show such a studious concealment of responsible names, with the omission of other circumstances that are essential to authentic investigation.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

The Kentuckians rubbed elbows with a trim and seasoned command of regulars near the extreme left.
— from The Code of the Mountains by Charles Neville Buck

Fly then, ye visions, that Hope would shed o'er me; Lost to the future, my sole chance of rest Now lies not in dreaming of bliss that's before me.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

I suppose he feels the hankering for a spree coming on right now.
— from Cappy Ricks; Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

(1) At two o’clock in the afternoon the ceremonies of the Coronation came at last to an end; then the procession formed once more, with Joan and the King at its head, and took up its solemn march through the midst of the church, all instruments and all people making such clamor of rejoicing noises as was, indeed, a marvel to hear.
— from Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2 by Mark Twain

The most simple case of reversion, namely, of a hybrid or mongrel to its grandparents, is connected by an almost perfect series with the extreme case of a purely-bred race recovering characters which had been lost during many ages; and we are thus led to infer that all the cases must be related by some common bond.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

I spent nearly two years' time after this bad beginning in travelling through Italy, and to the several courts of Rome, Naples, Venice, and Vienna.
— from Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Daniel Defoe

One wagon contains a wireless telegraphy station capable of receiving news from such distant stations as those of Carnarvon or Lyons.
— from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome