They assailed it by sea and land, and captured it.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Is this acting like a Christian, or doing as you would be done by?” Bell was as obstinate as a rock, not only refusing to put down any food for the famished lad, but reiterating her threat of leaving the house if he were suffered to remain.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

In most editions this name appears as L. Ateius Capito, but Sillig separates them, and with propriety it would appear, as the name of Capito the great legist was not Lucius.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Breathing deeply, he remained standing where he was, and was in this moment astonished like a child about the cornucopia of knowledge and things worth learning, which revealed itself before his eyes.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

A tall, straight figure, neither stout nor very thin, dress'd in drab cloth, clean-shaved face, forehead of great expanse, and large and clear black eyes,{42} long or middling-long white hair; he was at this time between 80 and 81 years of age, his head still wearing the broad-brim.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

He was a raiser of pigs and lived at Cacheville-la-Goupil, in the district of Criquetot.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

pr. one stationed in the first rank of an army; a leader; a chief, ringleader, Ac. 24.5. (ᾰ.) Πρωτοτόκια, ων, τά, the rights of primogeniture, birthright, He. 12.16: (S.) from Πρωτότοκος, ου, ὁ, ἡ, τό, -ον, ( πρῶτος & τίκτω ) firstborn, Mat. 1.25.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

To have left even the tiniest morsel in the dish would have shewn as much discourtesy as to rise and leave a concert hall while the 'piece' was still being played, and under the composer's-very eyes.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

This region required a long and careful exploration.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

What I mean is, that so far as life and liberty are concerned, in our rights under the law, in our protection under the law, we are all equal.
— from The Short Constitution by William F. (William Fletcher) Russell

Fulkerson cackled over the ruin: "I wonder if all Moffitt will look that way after labor and capital have fought it out together.
— from A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete by William Dean Howells

In this happy little community, Death, when he comes, doth so in punctual and business-like fashion; and, like a courtly gentleman, giveth due notice of his advent, that one may not be taken unawares. LIEUT.
— from The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Arthur Sullivan

They left their food and blankets behind them, but “Dutch Mike” made light of this, and lifted a chicken from a roost to keep them cheerful through the night hours, and stole a change of underclothing off a clothes-line the next day.
— from King Coal : a Novel by Upton Sinclair

Rutherford experimented very cruelly upon a bird, which he placed beneath a glass shade, and there let it remain in the carbonic acid exhaled from its lungs, till the oxygen being at length all consumed by the bird, it died.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

In a state of artificial Page 82 society, it is a law as constant and as invariable, that those who labor most enjoy the fewest things; and that those who labor not at all have the greatest number of enjoyments.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The Monastery had been given him by the Prince, and Luther and Catherine Bora used it both as their residence and as a boarding-house for lodgers.
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

By the time I reached Berne on the 14th of May, 1916, to take up my duties as "Officer in charge of British Interned in Switzerland," the work of these Commissions was drawing to a close, and Colonel Hauser (Chief Medical Officer, {33} Swiss Army) informed me of the concentration at Lyons and Constance of French, German, and Belgian prisoners of war who had been designated by the Itinerant Commissions for further examination by the Boards of Control at those places.
— from The British Interned in Switzerland by Henry Philip Picot