1 They don't need me among their number, either to brighten the record of patriotism or to increase the roll of paupers.
2 Every line of his slender body spoke of generations of brave and gallant men and Scarlett knew his war record by heart.
3 "I thought you were ashamed of your war record," she said.
4 The lady's offences were always against taste rather than conduct; her divorce record seemed due to geographical rather than ethical conditions; and her worst laxities were likely to proceed from a wandering and extravagant good-nature.
5 An association lurked in every fold: each fall of lace and gleam of embroidery was like a letter in the record of her past.
6 She was the one who could be depended upon to appreciate the Caruso phonograph record, and the Chinese lantern which Mr. Marbury had brought back as his present from San Francisco.
7 My song for ever shall record.
8 One reason perhaps is, that not one in fifty of the actual disasters and deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record at home, however transient and immediately forgotten that record.
9 Interweaving in its proper place this darker thread with the story as publicly narrated on the ship, the whole of this strange affair I now proceed to put on lasting record.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 10 It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish. 11 Then Jokubas pointed out the place where the cattle were driven to be weighed, upon a great scale that would weigh a hundred thousand pounds at once and record it automatically.
12 "The guv'ner" had made threats to disinherit another of his children also, sister Gwendolen, who had married an Italian marquis with a string of titles and a dueling record.
13 It would be pleasant to record that he swore off drinking immediately, and all the rest of his bad habits with it; but that would hardly be exact.
14 Arms, legs, and feet were encircled in twenty folds of the thong, in less time than we have taken to record the circumstance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 25 15 I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.