It is nevertheless unfortunately still a Bean ( for your long-lived Oak grows not so ); and, the next night, it may lie felled, horizontal, trodden into common mud.—But remark, at least, how natural to any agitated Nation, which has Faith, this business of Covenanting is.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The countenance, seeing the singer’s uncovered shoulders and bare feet, shows signs of embarrassment, and looks ready to sink through the floor.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Ihatà ug syát ang búla, Feint a shot with the ball.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

V. be courageous &c. adj.; dare, venture, make bold; face danger, front danger, affront danger, confront danger, brave danger, defy danger, despise danger, mock danger; look in the face; look full in the face, look boldly in the face, look danger in the face; face; meet, meet in front; brave, beard; defy &c. 715. take courage, muster courage, summon up courage, pluck up courage; nerve oneself, take heart; take heart, pluck up heart of grace; hold up one's head, screw one's courage to the sticking place; come up to scratch; stick to one's guns, standfire[obs3], stand against; bear up, bear up against; hold out &c. (persevere) 604a. put a bold face upon; show a bold front, present a bold front; show fight; face the music.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

182 Ice´land, discovered by Northmen, 25 Ice-lan´dic discovery, 27 Il-lĭ-noi s ´, forts captured in, 288 visited by priests, 177 Illinois River, La Salle explores, 180 , 181 Marquette and Joliet explore, 179 In-de-pend´ence Bell, 250 Independence, Declaration of, 248 -252 Independence Hall, in Pennsylvania, 252 Independence of United States, acknowledged by France, 272 acknowledged by George III., 322 In´dī-a, search for northwest passage to, 35 , 38 , 80 , 94 , 103 , 105 India, Vasco da Gama reaches, 61 In´dī-an Ocean, Vasco da Gama sails across, 61 Indian raids, 286 -288 Indian wars, first in New England, 133 French and Indian, 198 -213 King Philip's,
— from The Story of the Thirteen Colonies by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

During April and May 1967, Task Force OREGON, comprised of nine U. S. Army battalions from II and III Corps, moved into the Chu Lai-Duc Pho region and was placed under the operational control of General Walt.
— from The Battle for Khe Sanh by Moyers S. Shore

I preferred to swim my horse back 240 again rather than risk myself upon such a bridge, for I looked every moment to see it give way and engulf the whole division in the turbid waters of the swollen creek.
— from The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents by George Barton

"What," he cried, with unnatural strength, accompanied by flights of fantasy, "have you not heard me say, many's the time, that when I should come to die—" He stopped long enough to place a hand upon the head of the kneeling girl.
— from The Golden Road by Frank Waller Allen

Viens, mon petit soldat —you must grow up strong and big, for you are another little soldier for France."
— from Where the Sabots Clatter Again by Katherine Shortall

Extract from the will of Charles Ewell, of Prince William 110 County, dated 8th October, 1823, and admitted to probate 3rd November, 1823: "It is my will that all the increase of my negroes named shall be free at the age of twenty-five, and their increase, if any, to be free at the same age (those only who were born before their parents arrived at the age of twenty-four), those born after to be liberated with their mothers," [156] Extract from the will of John Smith, of Sussex County, dated 9th November, 1825, and admitted to probate 2nd March, 1826: "At the death of my beloved wife, I direct that all of my negroes, without regard to age, sex or condition, with all their future increase, be, by my executor, sent to the African Colonization Settlement, established for the removal of free black persons of color from the United States; and believing freedom to be the natural birthright of all persons and having spent many of my best days in defense thereof, I do hereby declare all of my said slaves or negroes, with their future increase ... to be emancipated and free ... from and after the death of my said wife.
— from Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession by Beverley B. (Beverley Bland) Munford

TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: I transmit to Congress a copy of two treaties between the United States and Belgium, for the extinguishment of the Scheldt dues, etc., concluded on the twentieth of May, 1863, and twentieth of July, 1863, respectively, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Brussels on the twenty-fourth of June last; and I recommend an appropriation to carry into effect the provisions thereof relative to the payment of the proportion of the United States toward the capitalization of the said dues.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

Denoting want in opposition to possession, denoted by aig : na tha uainn 's a b' fheairrd sinn againn, what we want and should be the better for having .
— from Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart