“The constables waited at their camp till daylight, and then went off to the camp of some Burmese elephant drivers, which was about three miles off, and made them collect their elephants, some seventeen in number, and then returned and looked for their comrade.
— from Anecdotes of Big Cats and Other Beasts by David Alec Wilson

It was known that these soldiers would re-form, where raw recruits might continue panic-stricken, and we were not so strong in numbers as to risk a regular engagement.
— from With the Swamp Fox: A Story of General Marion's Young Spies by James Otis

As soon as the first English colony was settled in North America, the rattlesnake again comes upon the stage.
— from Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life by Catherine Cooper Hopley

We knew that a general movement of troops from east to west had been started in November, and that roads and railways were being improved, artillery increased, and ammunition accumulated all along the front from Flanders to the Oise, and by the end of February indications became apparent that the attack would be on the Third and Fifth Armies.
— from The 56th Division (1st London Territorial Division) by C. H. (Charles Humble) Dudley Ward

The slave is not allowed to resist any free man under any circumstances: his only safety consists in the fact that his owner may bring suit, and recover, the price of his body, in case his life is taken, or his limbs rendered unfit for labor.
— from An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Child

He was much struck by the remarkable contrast of that stupendous obelisk of rock, piercing the clouds, with the vast, but still sublime, expanse of the high Fjelds of snow we had seen in Norway; and the remark applies generally to the grand distinctive features of the two countries.
— from Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester

The necessary explanations and information are given orally, and hence often with very unsatisfactory results, as the average student is not able to retain all the essential points of the course.
— from Forge Work by William L. (William Lewis) Ilgen

The back of a chair does not fit the human back, and the seat is not at the right angle to rest the body.
— from Vitality Supreme by Bernarr Macfadden