319 Other letters from General Wool while engaged in the work of disarming and overawing the Cherokee show how very disagreeable that duty was to him and how strongly his sympathies were with the Indians, who were practically unanimous in repudiating the treaty.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Pagkúhà ug papil ug isulat ri, Get a piece of paper and write this down.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The roof of the colonnade to be built at the top of the rows of seats, should lie level with the top of the "scaena," for the reason that the voice will then rise with equal power until it reaches the highest rows of seats and the roof.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Nabuktut akug pinangítà ug inyu rang inúmun, I have been staggering under the burden of earning money, and all you do is drink it up.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Therefore, what I shall tell of the earlier period, believe; and to what I may relate of the later time, give only such credit as may seem due, or doubt it altogether, or, if doubt it ye cannot, then play unto its riddle the Oedipus.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

gorigori m c term popularly used in referring to the doleful chant of funerals A. .
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

If the laws bid me pay twelve hundred francs for seven ounces of snuff for my own private use, I renounce those laws and declare that I will not pay a farthing.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

We talked over the situation for some little time, Sheridan explaining to me what he thought Lee was trying to do, and that Meade's orders, if carried out, moving to the right flank, would give him the coveted opportunity of escaping us and putting us in rear of him.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

But though we widen our agricultural base, our population unless its rate of progress is checked, will eventually, and perhaps soon, overtake any extension.
— from American World Policies by Walter E. (Walter Edward) Weyl

That it was not done and that the British Government remained patient until it received the outrageous ultimatum, is a proof that Majuba may have rankled in our memory but was not allowed to influence our policy.
— from The War in South Africa, Its Cause and Conduct by Arthur Conan Doyle

This charm is not only present for reasons which, in an admissible sense, we may call teleological, on account, that is, of its past utility in reproduction, but its intensity and power are due to the simultaneous stirring of profound sexual impulses.
— from The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana

"'I can find out from the vetturino,' said my cicerone, 'where they put up in Rome, and I promise you to enquire of him.'
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 05: Milan and Mantua by Giacomo Casanova

The library, though mainly for Parliamentary uses, is rich in Canadian history, and well up in polite literature.
— from Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada by Charles Dudley Warner

But having doubts regarding her taste, I abstained from opening the package until I reached home.
— from A Romantic Young Lady by Robert Grant

The tracks of some animals were to be seen, and we were puzzled until I remembered that reindeer, brought from Norway, had been placed on the island and now ranged along the lower land of the eastern coast.
— from South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917; Includes both text and audio files by Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir

Above this, architrave, frieze, and cornice curve in a round, projecting over each pair of columns; and over these columns, in a line with them, spring some caulicoles, which, together with some niches that divide them, rise to find the end of the lantern, which, beginning to draw together, grows gradually narrower for a third of its height, in the manner of a round pyramid, until it reaches the ball, upon which, as the final crown of the structure, goes the cross.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 09 (of 10) Michelagnolo to the Flemings by Giorgio Vasari

Filipinos, question of promise of independence to, 18–66; question of coöperation by, with American forces, 67–126; treacherous attitude of, 127–151; conditions in the provinces under Insurgent rule, 152–241; unfitness of common people to govern, 242 ff.; severe treatment of, by Insurgent leaders, 270–275; instances in which severity was used toward, by American soldiers, 281; chief characteristics of, as a people, 340–341; percentage of, employed in the civil service, 359, 366–367; as members of the Philippine constabulary, 380 ff., 399; as judges of courts, 402–407; health conditions among, and educational campaign in sanitary methods begun for, 408–420; training of, for nurses and physicians, 434–435; percentage of tuberculosis among, 444; generally bad physical condition of, 445; establishment of [ 1018 ] schools for, 501 – 505 ; training of, as teachers, 505 – 507 ; change in attitude of, toward manual labour, 508 ; industrial education of, 508 – 513 ; introduction of athletic sports and games, 514 – 516 ; drinking habits of, 570 ; cheating of people of wild tribes by, 570 – 571 , 610 – 611 , 668 – 670 , 951 ; statement of author’s attitude toward, 637 – 659 ; lack of sympathy of, for non-Christian tribes, 661 – 665 , 936 ; question of treatment of wild people by, if given full power, 665 , 668 – 672 , 674 – 675 ; system of slavery conducted among, 676 ff.; peonage among, 714 – 729 ; government by murder and assassination carried on by leaders of, 730 – 767 ; granting of legislative power to, deemed to be premature, 772 ; activities of, in the Philippine Assembly, 773 – 790 ; character of Filipinos elected to legislature, 790 ; doubtful results of turning road and bridge work over to, 882 – 883 ; qualities as field labourers, 886 ; primitive methods of agriculture followed by, 891 , 896 ; lacking as yet in ability to promote commercial prosperity, 917 – 920 ; barrier to present complete independence of, found in diversity of peoples and existence of mutual dislikes and prejudices, 933 – 940 ; intermarriage of Americans and, 940 – 941 ; illiteracy of majority of people, 943 – 944 ; superstitions and religious fakes among, 944 – 949 ; while quick to learn, lack initiative and sound judgment, 951 ; irresponsibility of native press, 952 – 954 ; other facts militating against fitness of, to govern themselves, 954 – 960 ; course to be followed by United States in treatment of, 961 – 973 .
— from The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2) by Dean C. (Dean Conant) Worcester

Then a gray mouse scuttered along the wainscot of the ship's passageways until it reached a good vantage point from which to see the young sailor on deck.
— from Mr. Wicker's Window by Carley Dawson