1.   Contemporary accounts give the impression of a watchful, mistrustful regime, of a country bristling with fortresses and teeming with soldiers.

2.   Contemporary accounts say that it could reach quite high speeds on the rails and that it saved fuel.

3.   Unfortunately, there is no contemporary account of the setting up of the archdiocese of Lichfield.

4.   According to contemporary accounts, birds fell out of the sky for miles around.

5.   According to contemporary accounts by people who lived in neighboring communities, many of the women were ordered to disrobe and were raped.

6.   According to contemporary accounts, they had met at a social event when he remarked that the diamond she was wearing was beautiful but not real.

7.   By all contemporary accounts, he let his kids run wild.

8.   Contemporary accounts describe corpses as slate-blue from lack of oxygen and hemorrhage into the skin.

9.   Contemporary accounts noted that Jim Tomilson, a regular, was having his morning eyeopener when the women walked in.

10.   Contemporary accounts treat Atlanta not so much as a city as a psychosis.