And, as you profitably take up arms, So now courageously encounter them, For by this answer broken is the league, And naught is to be look'd for now but wars, And naught to us more welcome is than wars.
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

After which I would be warned to be more careful of what I said, and not to upset my aunt so by thoughtless remarks.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

The stone, too great for them to throw, Fell back, and hurt them with the blow, And now the udalmen must rue That to their friends they were so true.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Thus Odysseus of the Sirens, "My heart to listen to them did incline, I bade my comrades by a nod to unloose me."
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

But I do like the way of these lords, that they admit nobody to use many words, nor do they spend many words themselves, but in great state do hear what they see necessary, and say little themselves, but bid withdraw.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Mr. Morton thanked the gentlemen in return, and said he would think about it; he was not certain that he could afford to begin a new term unless more pupils were promised, although he did not believe the entire county could supply better boys than those he had already taught at Laketon.
— from Who Was Paul Grayson? by John Habberton

Platoff and the Cossacks were hard on his heels; but fighting and marching throughout the weary, bitter day, at night the undaunted marshal found himself in touch with Eugène, who had turned out on the highway from Vitebsk to Orcha to meet him.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 3 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

But I had now a new task upon my hands; for when the men I carried with me saw the sight as I had done, I had as much to do to restrain them, as I should have had with the others; nay, my nephew himself fell in with them, and told me in their hearing, that he was only concerned for fear of the men being overpowered; for, as to the people, he thought not one of them ought to live; for they had all glutted themselves with the murder of the poor man, and that they ought to be used like murderers.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) by Daniel Defoe

or can the hope of glory Lend a new throb unto my languid heart, Cool, even now, my feverish aching brow, Relume the fires of this deep sunken eye, Or paint new colours on this pallid cheek?"
— from The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas by Henry Kirke White

To this formidable catalogue of means for war were to be [p. 123] added other items not less important, but which did not admit of being weighed and numbered; the unrivalled maritime skill and discipline of the seamen,—the democratical sentiment, alike fervent and unanimous, of the general mass of citizens,—and the superior development of directing intelligence.
— from History of Greece, Volume 06 (of 12) by George Grote

There is no bustle, no confusion; and notwithstanding the unceasing movements of the machinery, very little noise.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.—September, 1851—Vol. III. by Various

EDWARDS, J.—In support of his contention that the bed of the lake cannot be the subject of a Native title under Maori customs and usages, the Solicitor-General relies upon the inherent improbability that there was any intention, either by the Treaty of Waitangi or by the statutes relating to native lands, to recognise any such right.
— from The Treaty of Waitangi; or, how New Zealand became a British Colony by Thomas Lindsay Buick

The aesthetic world is limited in its scope; it must submit to the control of the organizing reason, and not trespass upon more useful and holy ground.
— from The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana

"In regard to Younghusband's Brigade, I learn that the three battalions are practically half Mahomedans, and I am advised that it is better if it can be avoided not to use Mahomedans so near the heart of Islam.
— from Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 by Ian Hamilton