I reiterate my former answer, and to the only new matter contained in your rejoinder add: We have no "negro allies" in this army; not a single negro soldier left Chattanooga with this army, or is with it now.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Miss Nancy was well pleased with him; and the widow, quite charmed with her new lodger, invited him, with the other, next morning to breakfast.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The alien conditions which are corrupting to one nature, may be the elements of culture to another.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

They were probably in that transition state which obtains in our own day for some of the Hill Mahomedans adjoining the Kafirs on the south side of the mountains the reproachful title of Nímchah Musulmán , or Half-and-halfs.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

With ordinary nurslings, where the body alone is thought of, nothing matters so long as the child lives and does not actually die, but with us, when education begins with life, the new-born child is already a disciple, not of his tutor, but of nature.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Charles Derbyshire’s translation of Noli Me
— from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal

The root sends forth a number of long strings and small fibres, taking strong hold in the ground, of a dark yellowish or brownish colour, and abides as the Horehound does: the smell of the one not much differs from the other.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

From then on, no more mollusks, no more zoophytes, no more articulates.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

And then one night, Minerva, the poetess, Came to me in her trouble, crying.
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

the Pipers playing the mournful and touching "Highland Lament," to where the graves had been dug, a few hundred yards from the post, and close to three others newly made, the last resting place of our gallant men who had fallen on the 16th of October.
— from Campaigning in Kaffirland; Or, Scenes and Adventures in the Kaffir War of 1851-52 by William Ross King

Cecilia was glad to employ her mind in any way that related not to Delvile, whom she now earnestly endeavoured to think of no more, denying herself even the pleasure of talking of him with Miss Belfield, by the name of her brother's noble friend .
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 by Fanny Burney

But even Harry could think of no more precautions after that, and they had a long and tiresome wait until they thought it was dark enough to venture within the walls.
— from The Boy Scout Aviators by George Durston

A fourth name, that of Napoleon, might easily have been added.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

A territory larger than all the Atlantic States, from Florida to Maine, put together; a dry climate as hot in summer and as cold in winter as that of New Mexico; a surface which varies between the aridity of the Staked [Pg 84] Plains and the fertility of the San Joaquin Valley of California; so sparsely populated that its fanatic, turbulent, poverty-stricken population averages but two inhabitants to the square mile—that is Tripolitania.
— from The Last Frontier: The White Man's War for Civilisation in Africa by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell

“You were very eager to see the Exhibition, and I cannot be rude to my cousins, whether you know them or not, my dear Winifred.
— from White Turrets by Mrs. Molesworth

602 Blunt's division finally took its stand on Prairie Creek 603 and, on the twelfth of November, made its main camp on Lindsay's prairie, near the Indian boundary.
— from The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Annie Heloise Abel

Naught impedes We voice the other name, man's most of might, Awesomely, lovingly: let awe and love Mutely await their working, leave to sight All of the issue as—below—above— Shakespeare's creation rises: one remove, Though dread—this finite from that infinite. March 12, 1884.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Now, the eclipses of the Sun occur invariably at the time of New Moon, when our satellite passes between the Sun and ourselves, and the eclipses of the Moon, at the [Pg 262] moment of Full Moon, when the latter is opposite to the Sun, and behind us.
— from Astronomy for Amateurs by Camille Flammarion