When a general enters a country offensively, he should form eventual or temporary bases,—which, of course, are neither so safe nor so strong as his own frontiers.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

It is not as though a new Christian sect, for example, were in A.D. 500 to be formed wholly on the gospel of Luke, or the book of the Revelation; nor as though a new sect should now arise in Norway or Tennessee because of a special emphasis laid on a combination of the epistle to the Corinthians and the book of Daniel.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Si Amúay nangáwat sa ságing ni Baúhay, Mr. Monkey stole Mr. Turtle’s bananas.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Webster's face suddenly was serious; the bantering intonation in his voice was gone, and a new, slightly strident note had crept into it.
— from Webster—Man's Man by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

They had the same sort of highly superior intellect, the same depth of learning, the same general acquaintance with science, the same ardent love of literature, the same thirst for universal knowledge, and the same buoyant animal spirits, such as neither sickness, sorrow, nor even terror, could subdue.
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney