Sultān Khurram, by dint of placing a great many posts, especially in some places where most people said it was impossible to place them on account of the badness of the air and water and the wild nature of the localities, and by dint of moving the royal forces one after another in pursuit, without regard to the heat or excessive rain, and making prisoners of the inhabitants of that region, brought matters with the Rānā to such a pass that it became clear to him that if this should happen to him again he must either fly the country or be made prisoner.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

1 To which all the mythology of Evil adds, a bad desire of mind is a Devil.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

He asked me if I had anything contraband; and being in a bad temper at being deprived of my sleep to answer such a question I replied with an oath that I had nothing of the sort, and that he would have done better to let me sleep.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“You hussy!” screamed the mother, “you are bringing disgrace on me; get out of my house.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The phenomenon was rather a troublesome companion, for first the right sandal came down, and then the left, and these mischances being repaired, one leg of the little white trousers was discovered to be longer than the other; besides these accidents, the green parasol was dropped down an iron grating, and only fished up again with great difficulty and by dint of much exertion.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

whom will God punish?'—these preoccupations hang like a bad dream over man's religious history.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

And yet, not to cite any of these acts of hers, and to bring no proof of them before the public seems perhaps to imply that they are lacking, and brings discredit on my encomium.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

A book descriptive of military evolutions, etc. H. Peacham’s Compleat Gentleman , 1627 (p. 300, quoted by Wheatley, Ev.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

When the fight was hottest the gallant Frenchman ordered his buglers to sound the advance, an alarming fanfare, accompanied by discharges of musketry from various points of the surrounding forest, and the enemy, thinking he was about to be attacked and flanked by superior numbers, was seized with panic, stampeded, and never halted in his retreat until he had placed twenty-five miles of country between him and the "French devils."
— from The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 by Walter R. Nursey

We got down our foresail and stowed it and bored holes between the decks to let the water into the hold and by dint of much pumping we kept her afloat until now.
— from The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes

and the answer, we cannot doubt is that leaves owe their nyctitropic movements to their habit of circumnutating,—a habit common to all plants, and everywhere ready for any beneficial development or modification.
— from The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Francis, Sir

in Oncken's Series); Lives of Erasmus, by Le Clerc, Jortin, Knight, Burigny (2 vols.), Froude, Emerton, Drummond (2 vols.); Lives of Columbus, by Irving, Major (1847), Harrisse (1884), Markham (1892), Winsor; PRESCOTT'S History of Ferdinand and Isabella, History of the Conquest of Mexico , and History of the Conquest of Peru ; Robertson, History of America ; Beazly, Dawn of Modern Geography (2 vols.); Fiske, Discovery of America (2 vols.); Payne, America (2 vols.); Scebohm's Oxford Reformers ; Robinson and Rolfe, Petrarch ; Creighton, History of the Papacy during the Reformation (Vols.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

Then he applied himself entirely to music, and became Director of Music at the University.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

All I had suffered and been deprived of must have come before him.
— from The Breaking of the Storm, Vol. III. by Friedrich Spielhagen

Much good work had already been done on many of the reefs, and on the whole the promise was distinctly good.
— from Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia Being a Narrative of Events in Matabeleland Both Before and During the Recent Native Insurrection Up to the Date of the Disbandment of the Bulawayo Field Force by Frederick Courteney Selous

He is no disciple of fate or chance, but recognizes in all human affairs the working of a divine and retributive providence, whose final judgment of good and evil is foreshadowed and begun during our mortal life.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various