As the little speck drew straight overhead, these human specks suddenly realized that they were in the line of fire, and scattered just as people run from a sudden shower.

Into the fog of war that covered the Continent an army of Englishmen had vanished, none knew where.

Even in his deep distress Booth had not forgotten to be theatrical. If he must die he wished to die at the climax of a highly dramatic situation. 

Nowhere but in America would such a career as Crockett's have been possible.

It it not so surprising that there is heroism in the world, as that there is so much of it.

"Gervais," he said, "go to yonder bully, and say to him that unless his threats and boasts cease, I shall be forced to kill him."

On the hill above, amidst the granite boulders, frowns the fortress, and all around stretch the foundation blocks of a dead city

Now and again in the regular round of delinquencies there comes the unmasking of a tragedy.

A crook has got to look out for himself, and 
I didn’t trust any gang to take care of me.

Alaskan Indians paddling in their baidarkas or clustered at camp fires in their cedar forests are telling with awe the strange tale of Kebeth, the Aleut.