Way nakagangì sa ugsuk, Not one succeeded in budging the peg loose.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He was sent up North on some government job he had, and fell in with her.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

Panax Victoriæ is a compact and charming plant, which sends up numbers of stems from the bottom in place of continually growing upward and thus becoming ungainly; it bears a profusion of elegantly curled, tasseled, and variegated foliage, very catching to the eye, and unlike any of its predecessors.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various

Now in works of penance we should use, not outward signs of sorrow, but rather signs of joy; for our Lord said (Matt. 6:16): "When you fast, be not, as the hypocrites, sad," and afterwards He added: "But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thy head and wash thy face."
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Salinas Valley, 141 Salt Lake, contemplated railroad to, 318 San Benito Valley, 125 San Diego, 127 , 223 [468] San Fernando tunnel, 131 San Francisco, 140 , 223 , 321 ; meeting at, to object to refunding bill, 402 ; opposes to government aid, 31-40 ; port of, 223 ; rates, 281 , 317 ; terminal facilities in, in 1869, 85 ; water-front grants, 94-103 San Francisco and Great Salt Lake Railroad Company, 318 San Francisco and Marysville Railroad, 29 San Francisco, Oakland and Alameda Railroad, purchased by Huntington and associates, 103 , 140 San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad, 44 , 81 , 140 , 317-346 ; China Basin lease, 335-338 San Francisco and San José Railroad, 48 , 84 , 120 , 121 , 123 San Francisco to Great Salt Lake, 318 ; to Soledad, 141 San Francisco Bulletin, 98 , 101 , 182 , 306 San Francisco Chronicle, 215 , 219 , 264 San Francisco Examiner, 328 , 403 San Francisco Stock Exchange, Central Pacific stock listed, 171 San Francisco Times, 98 San Joaquin Valley, 119 , 140 San Joaquin Valley Railroad (See “San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad” ) San José, 141 San Pablo and Tulare Railroad, 141 San Pedro, 223 Santa Ana, in 1870, 127 Santa Clara and Pajaro Valley Railroad, 123 Santa Fé Railroad (See “Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Railroad” ) Sargent, Congressman, 46 , 47 Scott, Tom, 202 , 208 Securities, advertised, 172 ; first sale of, 177 ; market for, 171 Shelby, P. P., 357 Shingle Springs, 141 Shipping statistics, New York to San Francisco, 1869-1884, 232 Ships, British vs. American, 294 Sierra Nevada Mountains, surveys of, 5 , 59 Simmons Hardware Company, 282 Sinking funds, bond provisions, 376 , 383 ; court decisions, 410 Smith, Mr., Treasurer of the Southern Pacific, 163 Snow sheds, 67 Soledad, 141 , 179 Southern Development Company, 135 Southern Pacific Company of Kentucky, 150 Southern Pacific Railroad acquires Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad, 128 ; bonds of, 370-424 ; construction of, companies organized to build, 132-136 ; early routes, 125-128 ; controlled by Stanford and associates, 122 ; earnings, 347-369 ; El Paso route, 354 ; in 1877, 140 ; incorporated, 120-123 ; grant by Los Angeles, 128 ; growth of, 1871-1878, 141 ; leases of, 143-153 ; northern division, 141 , 144 ; operating characteristics, 347-369 ; reorganization plan, 1884, 149 , 1913, 436 ; rivalry feared by Stanford, 119 ; route, 123 ; traffic diversion charged, 356 ; Union Pacific gains control of, 428 Spanish lands in California, 62 Spence, Mr., 286 , 356 , 432 Speyer, James, and Company, contract to sell securities, 147 , 177-180 , 414 , 417 Spreckels, Adolph, 326 Spreckels, Claus, 324-328 , 332 , 336 [469] Spreckels, John D., 326 , 329 Sproule, Mr., 356 Standard Oil Company, 245 Stanford, Leland, 22 , 64 , 145 , 284 ; acquires control California Pacific Railroad, 109-118 ; against state regulation, 199 ; agreement with California Pacific Railroad, 110 ; biography, 11 ; claim against federal government, 374 ; director, Southern Pacific Railroad, 123 ; finances T. D. Judah, 14 ; lobbying methods, 204-221 ; Oakland Water Front Company, 87 , 89 , 90 , 91 ; objects to freight rates of 1880, 192 ; on rates, 239 ; organizes Contract and Finance Company, 75 ; resigns presidency of Southern Pacific, 218 ; senator from California, 218 ; shareholder of Central Pacific Railroad, 19 ; shares of, 146-149 ; statement regarding Southern Pacific, 122 ; Thurman bill, 385 Stanford, Philip, 32 State aid, 30 State boards (see under names of states, California, Utah, etc.)
— from Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific by Stuart Daggett

Trying to make a screen of the chair, she felt the floating gauze of her dress Page 260 catch on some unseen nail or splinter of broken woods struggled to tear it free, and found herself in Logan's arms.
— from Winnie Childs, the Shop Girl by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

His maid had orders to show us no other service than to buy us something to eat, for our own money: the Génie du Christianisme availed me nothing.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 3 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 3 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

I say, then, with the highest Joy of Heart, that the enlarging and improving our neglected Tillage, the encouraging and heightening our old decaying Manufactures, and the setting up new ones should have been the great Care of my Life, and the extending the Force and Use of the Society, when thus advanced to its Manhood, beyond what the Weakness and Inexperience of its infantine State could perform.
— from A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753 by Anonymous

However that be, the brigantines and sloops used by the Elizabethans on all adventurous expeditions were mere boats compared with what we should use now on such occasions.
— from English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by James Anthony Froude

All the time Susan had the fever I sot up nights, or stood up—a good deal of the time she was that sick that I didn’t set down; I jest kept on the trot all night, doing one thing and another.
— from Ruth Erskine's Crosses by Pansy