Whereas, in the judgment of the President, the public safety does require that the railroad line called and known as the Southwest Branch of the Pacific Railroad in the State of Missouri be repaired, extended, and completed from Rolla to Lebanon, in the direction to Springfield, in the said State, the same being necessary to the successful and economical conduct of the war and to the maintenance of the authority of the government in the Southwest: Therefore, under and in virtue of the act of Congress entitled "An act to authorize the President of the United States in certain cases to take possession of railroad and telegraph lines, and for other purposes," approved January 31, 1862, it is ordered, That the portion of the said railroad line which reaches from Rolla to Lebanon be repaired, extended, and completed, so as to be made available for the military uses of the government, as speedily as may be.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

Manna whispered to Roland that they would give Adams at once a handsome sum of money; but Roland explained, that, although they must undoubtedly provide generously for Adams, it would be better first to find out if he understood the proper use of money.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

Some one must be responsible every second of the day and night for Timmy.
— from Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby by Kathleen Thompson Norris

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— from Sally of Missouri by Rose E. (Rose Emmet) Young

Both of these emotions are useful states of mind; by resentment evils are averted, by retributive kindliness benefits are secured.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

At this convention, Cespedes resigned his position as provisional head of the government and commander-in-chief of the army, in order that some one might be regularly elected in his place, and in doing so he addressed his colleagues in the following memorable terms: "Now that the House of Representatives, gathered from all parts of the Island, has been happily inaugurated in Guaimaro, it becomes from the moment of its organization the supreme and only authority for all Cubans, because it constitutes the depository of the people's will, sovereign of the present and controller of the future.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

A subject which we might grapple with and run down by a few hours of vigorous, absorbed attention in a library, gaining strength of mind by resolute encountering of difficulties, by personal effort, we sit around for a month or a season in a club, expecting somehow to take the information by effortless contiguity with it.
— from As We Were Saying by Charles Dudley Warner

SKINS OF MAMMALS, BIRDS, REPTILES, Etc.
— from Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting A Complete Handbook for the Amateur Taxidermist, Collector, Osteologist, Museum-Builder, Sportsman, and Traveller by W. J. (William Jacob) Holland