For the allies to carry out their objects and make any diversion upon the seaboard, or on the other hand to cripple the sea resources of the hard-pressed Provinces, it was necessary first to deal successfully with Ruyter's fleet.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The inhabitants, however, showing no signs of submitting, he dismissed the land forces and himself sailed to Leucas, and making a descent upon Nericus was cut off during his retreat, and most of his troops with him, by the people in those parts aided by some coastguards; after which the Athenians sailed away, recovering their dead from the Leucadians under truce.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

The ships of the Peloponnesians they found hauled up on shore, and, after making a descent upon the coast and defeating the Rhodians who appeared in the field against them, withdrew to Chalce and made that place their base of operations instead of Cos, as they could better observe from thence if the Peloponnesian fleet put out to sea.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

His band had as lief appear in one province where it was least expected as make a descent upon another that was preparing to resist it.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Then the worst came when I, being out of my mind with hunger and loss of my boys, and grief to see my husband and my little maids in rags and misery and despair, uttered a deep blasphemy—oh! a thousand of them!—against the Church and the Church’s ways.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Do not lose time, Comminges,” he continued; “get out of the carriage if you can and make another draw up; be quick, or in five minutes the mob will be on us again with swords and muskets and you will be killed.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

So to the office, having staid as long as I could, and there sat all the morning, and then home at noon to dinner, and then abroad, Balty with me, and to White Hall, by water, to Sir G. Carteret, about Balty’s L1500 contingent money for the fleete to the West Indys, and so away with him to the Exchange, and mercers and drapers, up and down, to pay all my scores occasioned by this mourning for my mother; and emptied a L50 bag, and it was a joy to me to see that I am able to part with such a sum, without much inconvenience; at least, without any trouble of mind.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I looked back, and my arm dropped useless at my side.
— from Debts of Honor by Mór Jókai

Your duty, your interest, your temporal and your eternal welfare, do, and may all, depend upon this single point, the morality of a husband.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Samuel Richardson

A very dignified gentleman, with exquisitely arranged beard and moustache, and dressed unexceptionably, made a diplomatic bow to Mr. Cockayne and his wife.
— from The Cockaynes in Paris; Or, 'Gone abroad' by Blanchard Jerrold

Long ago, when Kheyr-ed-dīn was unknown to fame, Doria had driven him from the Goletta (1513); and in 1531 the Genoese admiral made a descent upon Shershēl, which Kheyr-ed-dīn had been strengthening, to the great detriment and anxiety of the opposite coast of Spain.
— from The Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Stanley Lane-Poole

With this seed, and their national dish ' cuscusu ,' the bride is literally crammed, and many actually die under the spoon."
— from Female Scripture Biography, Volume II Including an Essay on What Christianity Has Done for Women by F. A. (Francis Augustus) Cox

But when I struggled to be like the others, all my strength failed me, and my arms dropped unnerved by my side.--But did you not hear a noise in the next room?"
— from The Pictures; The Betrothing: Novels by Ludwig Tieck

I took to my heels, and made a dash up the passage for the street.
— from Poison Island by Arthur Quiller-Couch

His acceptances were becoming as much a drug upon the exchanges of Antwerp, Genoa, or Augsburg, as those of the most Catholic king or their Highnesses the archdukes.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

In short, the physical object is describable and can be made socially current, though doubtless with more or less of difficulty, if other persons will attend to it and learn to see it as I see it; but the value [Pg 322] of an economic object or a moral act depends upon my desires and feelings, and therefore must remain a matter of my private appreciation.
— from Studies in Logical Theory by John Dewey