Col. A. Hamilton of this regt., had a very valuable charger at Waterloo, and knowing that if it was shot in the battle he would only get the Government price of £20 for another charger, he exchanged horses, before going into action at Quatre Bras, with his steady old quartermaster, who, being a non-combatant, was to remain in the rear.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

This creature full of contradictions, however, has in his being a grand method of acquiring knowledge: he feels the pros and cons, he elevates himself to Justice —that is to say, to the ascertaining of principles beyond the valuations good and evil.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It was a sight to behold Tim Linkinwater slowly bring out a massive ledger and day-book, and, after turning them over and over, and affectionately dusting their backs and sides, open the leaves here and there, and cast his eyes, half mournfully, half proudly, upon the fair and unblotted entries.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

He saw that the Romans were reduced by disease and want, owing to an epidemic that had broken out among them, and he believed that his own forces were strong enough to give them battle: he accordingly collected his elephants, Hanno tempts the Roman cavalry out and defeats them.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Mme. de Restaud’s expression was reserved and chilly, her eyes had grown indifferent, and sedulously avoided meeting those of the unlucky student of law.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

After Cortes had entered his apartment, and the usual compliments had been passed, he thus addressed Motecusuma: "I am greatly astonished that a prince of such power, who styles himself our friend, should have commanded his troops, which lie on the coast near Tuzapan, to take up arms against my Spanish troops, and presume to demand a certain number of men and women for the sacrifices from those townships which have put themselves under the protection of our emperor.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Diogenes was rougher, though of the same opinion; but in his character of a Cynic he expressed himself in a somewhat harsher manner; he ordered himself to be thrown anywhere without being buried.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The monarch, by a column high enthroned, His eye withdrew, and fix'd it on the ground; Curious to hear his queen the silence break: Amazed she sate, and impotent to speak; O'er all the man her eyes she rolls in vain, Now hopes, now fears, now knows, then doubts again.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

She made no answer and closed her eyes helplessly.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Stevens was a child of New England, as were Quincy and Adams; but, after completing his education, he found a home in Pennsylvania, which had already given birth to Giddings.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 17 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Terence soon gave up looking at them, for he was tired; and, closing his eyes, he fell half asleep in his chair.
— from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

Remember she's not a child; her experiences have been too terrible.
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04 by Martin Andersen Nexø

Hardly a stone's throw from her there was a small knoll, and behind it what might have been a large, projecting boulder suddenly flashed into red light and showed itself for a dormer window; a cottage had evidently hidden behind the little hill.
— from While Caroline Was Growing by Josephine Daskam Bacon

Half a dozen races and centuries had each had a hand in the Church and Convent of San Niccola too, 209 apparently.
— from Seekers in Sicily: Being a Quest for Persephone by Jane and Peripatetica by Anne Hoyt

She put both hands to her face and closed her eyes, holding the attitude for several minutes.
— from The Winning Clue by James Hay

On the other hand, using a card having every hole of the cylinder punched, (or the empty cylinder used), would lift every needle in the machine.
— from The Jacquard Machine Analyzed and Explained With an appendix on the preparation of jacquard cards, and practical hints to learners of jacquard designing by E. A. (Emanuel Anthony) Posselt

Plunging into the fray with a curse, he exercised his great strength, throwing the men this way and that like ninepins, and finally dragging Silas to his feet again.
— from Jess by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

All automobile expenses, transport, storage, cartage, distribution and Custom House expenses have been paid by Mr. Deming Jarves.
— from War Days in Brittany by Elsie Deming Jarves