Our ladies have their dresses sent ready-made from the capital of France, or if they still adhere to the native milliner, or the artiste who is a naturalised French-woman, the materials, fresh from Lyons or Marseilles, are invariably purchased at these huge emporiums in Regent Street and Bond Street, which you may search in vain for a specimen of British industry.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine—Volume 62, No. 386, December, 1847 by Various

Looking at them as was supposed; but had they been keen observers, they would have known that his eyes in reality saw not: they, like his thoughts, were far away.
— from Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

[Pg 5] CONTENTS Page Title , 1 Officers of the Society for 1899 , 3 Contents , 5 The Historical Element in Recent Southern Literature , by Prof. C. Alphonso Smith , 7 Irwin Russell—Firstfruits of the Southern Romantic Movement , by Prof. W. L. Weber , 15 William Ward, a Mississippi Poet Entitled to Distinction , by Prof. Dabney Lipscomb , 32 Sherwood Bonner, Her Life and Place in the Literature of the South , by Prof. Alexander L. Bondurant , 43 'The Daughter of the Confederacy,' Her Life, Character and Writings , by Prof. Chiles Clifton Ferrell , 67 Sir William Dunbar, Pioneer Scientist of Mississippi , by Prof. Franklin L. Riley , 85 History of Taxation in Mississippi , by Prof. Charles Hillman Brough , 113 Territorial Growth of Mississippi , by Prof. J. M. White , 125 The Early Slave Laws of Mississippi , by Alfred H. Stone, Esq. , 135 Federal Courts, Judges, Attorneys and Marshals in Mississippi , by Thomas McAdory Owen, Esq. , 147 Running Mississippi's South Line , by Peter J. Hamilton, Esq. , 157 Elizabeth Female Academy—The Mother of Female Colleges , by Bishop Chas.
— from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Volume 02 (of 14), 1899 by Mississippi Historical Society

Taft had evidently intended retaining several of the Cabinet officials, but subsequently changed his mind, which was one of the things that caused the break between Roosevelt and him.
— from Under Four Administrations, from Cleveland to Taft Recollections of Oscar S. Straus ... by Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon) Straus

[Pg 7] THE HISTORICAL ELEMENT IN RECENT SOUTHERN LITERATURE.
— from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Volume 02 (of 14), 1899 by Mississippi Historical Society

This, then, is what I mean by the historical element in recent Southern literature.
— from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Volume 02 (of 14), 1899 by Mississippi Historical Society

It was inexpressibly diverting to one who knew the straitened circumstances of the Valdese pastors, and the difficulties they had encountered in raising subscriptions for the building of this church, to hear of the immense bribes they employed to gain converts to their communion.
— from The Englishwoman in Italy Impressions of life in the Roman states and Sardinia, during a ten years' residence by Gretton, G., Mrs.

Some of his works are among the very best productions of modern sculpture; his portraits are noble and true to nature; the works named here are by no means all that he did, and we should add [Pg 250] that his efforts in religious subjects exhibit a pure sense of the beautiful, and a true conception of Christian ideas.
— from A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture by Clara Erskine Clement Waters

A far-away and faint buzzing sound came to Perk’s ears but instead of adding to his excitement it really seemed to cool his blood, for surely this had nothing whatever to do with snakes of any kind.
— from Eagles of the Sky; Or, With Jack Ralston Along the Air Lanes by Ambrose Newcomb