He approached near enough to sink two of their floating batteries, and to destroy a few gun-boats which were without the pier.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

As to the rule that the valuables have always to travel and never to stop, nothing has to be added to what has been said about this in Chapter III , for there are no exceptions to this rule.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

She had come to Eaubonne, in the middle of the Valley of Montmorency, where she had taken a pretty house, from thence she made a new excursion to the Hermitage.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Now the categories are nothing else than these functions of judgement so far as the manifold in a given intuition is determined in relation to them (§ 9).
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

To say that there were no justice or injustice but that which depends on the injunctions or prohibitions of positive laws, is to say that the radii which spring from a centre are not equal till we have formed a circle to illustrate the proposition.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I know just enough to be uncomfortable, and not enough to go on in spite of it.”
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

I was in no mood to permit any new encroachment to-night: rather than accept his banter, I would ignore his presence, and accordingly steadily turned my face to the sleeve of Dr. John's coat; finding in that same black sleeve a prospect more redolent of pleasure and comfort, more genial, more friendly, I thought, than was offered by the dark little Professor's unlovely visage.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

I had not wished him to see that "the water stood in my eyes," for his was too kind a nature ever to be needlessly shown such signs of sorrow.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Two friars who had been parties in prevailing upon him to abjure, now endeavoured to draw him off again from the truth, but he was steadfast and immoveable in what he had just professed, and before publicly taught.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Promise me, sweetheart, to sup and sleep at the casino at least once a week, and write me a note each time by the housekeeper’s wife.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In order to satisfy his honour the emperor requests that a clause should be inserted in the marriage treaty to the effect that the whole treaty should be null and void, and not even the penalty paid if the King of France declare himself ready, within one year, to marry his daughter Claude to Prince Charles.
— from The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Eleanor E. Tremayne

Even in cataloguing it is unusual and not easy to split up into classes and sub-divisions those books of a miscellaneous character, as volumes of essays, which are “indexed” section by section in the dictionary catalogue.
— from Manual of Library Cataloguing by John Henry Quinn

The savage slays no animal, not even the rattlesnake, wantonly; and the Turk, whom we call a barbarian, treats the dumb beast as gently as a child.
— from Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

In 1380 two Italians named Lem took a load of sun-kissed bananas and made a voyage to the extreme north, but the historian says that the accounts are so conflicting, and as the stories told by the two brothers did not agree and neither ever told it the same on two separate occasions, the history of their voyage is not used very much.
— from Bill Nye's Cordwood by Bill Nye

We can easily show that no new real principle is required besides the principles of the essence, as all the essential attributes and properties 68 of a complete being are fully contained in the real essence of the same as in their fountain-head, inasmuch as they are nothing else than the actuality of the essence considered under different aspects or connotations.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

Must he draw on the strength of this girl who in a few months might be butchered by the State, as if there remained in him no power at all, not even the power of wisdom?
— from The Trial of Callista Blake by Edgar Pangborn

The first lot arrived nicely, except two.
— from Natural and Artificial Duck Culture by James Rankin

You must regard it as only natural that men who hold themselves to be the favourites of God, and never expect to meet you in heaven, should treat you with little respect on earth.
— from Unitarianism Defended A Series of Lectures by Three Protestant Dissenting Ministers of Liverpool by John Hamilton Thom

At last it was brought home to the once Mighty Monarch that any Dealer who controlled a well-advertised and popular Line of Goods enjoyed a Valuable Asset and was supposed to [65] move a muscle once in a while in the direction of selling the stuff, and not expect the manufacturer of it to do all the chores.
— from Dumbells of Business by Louis Custer Martin Reed