Perhaps the following remarks from the hitherto unpublished records made by certain observers will throw a light on the particular species to which Poiret belonged in the great family of fools.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

I had not been in Mexico many weeks when, reading a St. Louis paper, I found the President had asked the Illinois delegation in Congress to recommend some citizens of the State for the position of brigadier-general, and that they had unanimously recommended me as first on a list of seven.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

A strange little yearning was upon her to hunt up Rebecca Mary and call her darling and dear.
— from Rebecca Mary by Annie Hamilton Donnell

Now, during the war my tool has unquestionably rendered me but poor service.
— from Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by John Leighton

The earliest fragment of his writing now extant is a letter to his uncle Robert Manning, at that time in Raymond, Maine, written from Salem, December 9, 1813.
— from A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop

The new pursuit was of a nature to engross the animal’s whole attention and co-ordinate all his faculties; and to [4] maintain and reinforce it, his structure in body and mind may reasonably be supposed to have undergone rapid modification by natural selection; because those individuals that were in any organ or faculty best adapted to the new life had an advantage, which was inherited and gradually intensified.
— from The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions by Carveth Read

The result was that he used rough means before I promised to be good and do as he commanded.
— from The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

From all we have said we may form quite an accurate idea of what the hypostatic union really means.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

So he advances closer and closer, the hen usually remaining motionless.
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent

The summer wore away, but nothing was acomplished; and late in the autumn Hawthorne left the Old Manse to return to his Uncle Robert Manning’s house in Salem, where he could always count on a warm welcome.
— from The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns

The Ione had now, in Mr Saltwell’s opinion, stood long enough to the northward, or rather to the north-east, so he tacked ship, and they headed up rather more towards the island, though she soon again fell off nearly south.
— from The Pirate of the Mediterranean: A Tale of the Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston