There were some flat slabs of rock in the center, with an excellent well close by, and there we sat in cleanly comfort while we made our first plans for the invasion of this new country.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

The railroad was repaired to Goldsboro' by the evening of March 25th, when, leaving General Schofield in chief command, with a couple of staff-officers I started for City Point, Virginia, in a locomotive, in company with Colonel Wright, the constructing engineer.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

es in three hours a thousand years of feudalism; it makes of its logic the muscle of unanimous will; it multiplies itself under all sorts of forms of the sublime; it fills with its light Washington, Kosciusko, Bolivar, Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is everywhere where the future is being lighted up, at Boston in 1779, at the Isle de Léon in 1820, at Pesth in 1848, at Palermo in 1860, it whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in the ear of the American abolitionists grouped about the boat at Harper’s Ferry, and in the ear of the patriots of Ancona assembled in the shadow, to the Archi before the Gozzi inn on the seashore; it creates Canaris; it creates Quiroga; it creates Pisacane; it irradiates the great on earth; it was while proceeding whither its breath urge them, that Byron perished at Missolonghi, and that Mazet died at Barcelona; it is the tribune under the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; its books, its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its philosophy, are the manuals of the human race; it has Pascal, Régnier, Corneille, Descartes, Jean-Jacques: Voltaire for all moments, Molière for all centuries; it makes its language to be talked by the universal mouth, and that language becomes the word; it constructs in all minds the idea of progress, the liberating dogmas which it forges are for the generations trusty friends, and it is with the soul of its thinkers and its poets that all heroes of all nations have been made since 1789; this does not prevent vagabondism, and that enormous genius which is called Paris, while transfiguring the world by its light, sketches in charcoal Bouginier’s nose on the wall of the temple of Theseus and writes Credeville the thief on the Pyramids.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

In a few years they had succeeded in completely cutting themselves off from all society.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It was a war-time measure, and was intended to prevent speculation in coffee contracts and freight rates, to cut down the number of vessels carrying coffee to this country so as to provide more ships for transporting food and soldiers to Europe, and to put the coffee merchants on rations during the stress of war.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

And she began to say in accents sweet And tuneable as angel’s voices are: “O Mantuan Shade, in courtesy complete, Whose fame survives on earth, nor less shall grow Through all the ages, while the world hath seat; 60 A friend of mine, with fortune for his foe, Has met with hindrance on his desert way, And, terror-smitten, can no further go, But turns; and that he is too far astray, And that I rose too late for help, I dread, From what in Heaven concerning him they say. Go, with thy speech persuasive him bestead,
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Langgikítun nákù ning duha ka buuk káhuy arun makas-a ug dala, I will tie these two pieces of wood together so I can carry them all at once.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The Turkestan class, so far as our subject is concerned, carries us east from Persia, [Pg 80] through Afghanistan and Beluchistan even into China.
— from The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by William De Lancey Ellwanger

Natural inclinations are much assisted and fortified by education; but they seldom alter and overcome their institution: a thousand natures of my time have escaped towards virtue or vice, through a quite contrary discipline: “Sic ubi, desuetae silvis, in carcere clausae Mansuevere ferx, et vultus posuere minaces, Atque hominem didicere pati, si torrida parvus Venit in ora cruor, redeunt rabiesque fororque, Admonitaeque tument gustato sanguine fauces Fervet, et a trepido vix abstinet ira magistro;” [“So savage beasts, when shut up in cages and grown unaccustomed to the woods, have become tame, and have laid aside their fierce looks, and submit to the rule of man; if again a slight taste of blood comes into their mouths, their rage and fury return, their jaws are erected by thirst of blood, and their anger scarcely abstains from their trembling masters.”—Lucan, iv.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Of all that he said, however, by far the most striking part, was his account of his skill in curing cancer.
— from The American Indians Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

I had the assurance that you lived in good, and as I now see, in comfortable circumstances.
— from Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Various

"Lady," he said, "suppose I come clean to you?
— from The Rangeland Avenger by Max Brand

He and his three thousand followers separated into companies, cut off isolated bands of free-booters, and harassed the enemy as much as they could.
— from Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages by Wilhelm Wägner

Gewauga , a small hamlet located on the east side of Cayuga lake, on the site of present Union Springs in Cayuga County.
— from The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's Campaign Against the Western Indians With an Introduction, Copious Historical Notes, and Maps of the Battle-field of Newtown and Groveland Ambuscade by John Leonard Hardenbergh

shall in certain cases discharge the duties of President 2 1 may be removed by impeachment 2 4 Vote of one House requiring the concurrence of the other 1 7 right not to be denied on account of race (15th amendment, p. 139).
— from The Legislative Manual, of the State of Colorado Comprising the History of Colorado, Annals of the Legislature, Manual of Customs, Precedents and Forms, Rules of Parliamentary Parliamentary Practice, and the Constitutions of the United States and the History of Colorado, Annals of the Legislature, Manual of Customs, Precedents and Forms, Rules of Parliamentary Practice, and the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Colorado. Also, Chronological Table of American History, Lists and Tables for Reference, Biographies, Etc. by Thomas B. Corbett

"I suppose I can choose the size of my house for myself," Octon growled.
— from The Great Miss Driver by Anthony Hope

Everything depends now upon your pluck—which means can you dare to venture into the glen, so I can continue to procure food for you?
— from The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf

There was an immediate slump in car cleaning.
— from Fanny Goes to War by Pat Beauchamp Washington