“The battle closed about twelve o'clock at night,” wrote General Hood, “when the enemy retreated rapidly on Nashville, leaving the dead and wounded in our hands.
— from The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore

"It is not too much to assert, that all that can be said, or has been discovered about 'The little animal' (Puck), is gathered together in Dr. Bell's most amusing and instructive volume, which not only elucidates the mystery which hangs about it, but enters largely into all illustrations of the folk-lore and the superstitions of all nations, but especially of the earliest religious rites of Northern Europe and the Wends.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 175, March 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various