Yes: it is the King; and tremble ye to know it!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The English took the island in 1795, and thirty years later, they began to expand cultivation.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

A father could not be more delighted at the return of an only son, the child of his old age, after ten years' absence in a foreign country and after having gone through much hardship.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

The rattling trumpet of the elephant, the drum of the gorilla, the scream of the lion, the chattering of countless apes, the yells of myriads of cockatoos, the growls of bears, the sobs of walri, 18 the whistle of rhinocerotes, combined to make a strange pandemonium—strange, I call it, because the zoological learning I had picked up while with Nora at Oxford, informed me at once that the variety of roars, screams, grunts, skreeks, whirrings, which our footsteps seemed to awake in every kind of animal, bird, and insect, could be paralleled only in the pages of the 'Swiss Family Robinson.'
— from He by Walter Herries Pollock

They viewed his rapid progress with jealousy and terror; and the youthful fame of Alaric was oppressed by the more potent genius of his rival.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

‘No matter,’ I answered, ‘to you; you have no longer any regard for me it appears; and I have no longer any for you.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

The Winkies were sorry to have them go, and they had grown so fond of the Tin Woodman that they begged him to stay and rule over them and the Yellow Land of the West.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The largest mantle her rich wardrobes hold, Most prized for art, and labour'd o'er with gold, Before the goddess' honour'd knees be spread, And twelve young heifers to her altars led: If so the power, atoned by fervent prayer, Our wives, our infants, and our city spare, And far avert Tydides' wasteful ire, That mows whole troops, and makes all Troy retire; Not thus Achilles taught our hosts to dread, Sprung though he was from more than mortal bed; Not thus resistless ruled the stream of fight, In rage unbounded, and unmatch'd in might.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Where are the young men who will consecrate their best years, their ambitions and their enthusiasms to the welfare of their native land?
— from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal

The motion of the earth round its axis, and round the sun, makes the day, and the year.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was no sparring for position, but both grappled on the instant, each with a snap and a grip; and, locked in a red furry ball, they rolled about three yards down the bank.
— from Red Fox The Story of His Adventurous Career in the Ringwaak Wilds and of His Final Triumph over the Enemies of His Kind by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

When the storm was over the ground was white, as if covered with snow, and the high board fences that are around the yards back of the officers' quarters looked as though they had been used for targets and peppered with big bullets.
— from Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe

The young lady who brings a breach-of-promise suit against her faithless follower has the right to put him under arrest and make him give bail; and the young gentleman who would laugh ordinarily at the mere service of papers may well settle her claim if a sheriff whispers in his ear that he has a warrant for his person.
— from The Confessions of Artemas Quibble Being the Ingenuous and Unvarnished History of Artemas Quibble, Esquire, One-Time Practitioner in the New York Criminal Courts, Together with an Account of the Divers Wiles, Tricks, Sophistries, Technicalities, and Sundry Artifices of Himself and Others of the Fraternity, Commonly Yclept "Shysters" or "Shyster Lawyers" by Arthur Cheney Train

Just at that moment a terrified yell sounded from above: “Run for your lives!
— from Boyhood in Norway: Stories of Boy-Life in the Land of the Midnight Sun by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

"I was just getting around to yours.
— from The Success Machine by Henry Slesar

We heard your shots, and traced you by them.
— from The Young Treasure Hunter; Or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska by Frank V. Webster

After all, according to your own showing, you are dependent on your father's caprice: some angry objection on his part—and where would the fortunes of the young married couple be?"
— from Stand Fast, Craig-Royston! (Volume II) by William Black

The death of Balthazar’s father and mother had left the old mansion deserted, and the young man was occupied for a time in settling its affairs.
— from The Alkahest by Honoré de Balzac

Scott, Winfield, birth and parentage, 1 ; runs away from Sunday school, 2 ; defends his teacher; at William and Mary College, 4 ; enters on the practice of law; present at the trial of Aaron Burr, 5 ; attacks British camp at Lynn Haven Bay; goes to South Carolina to practice law; returns to Petersburg, Va., to practice law; joins Petersburg cavalry company, 6 ; receives commission as Captain in the U.S, army; recruits his company and embarks for New Orleans, 7 ; arrested and tried by court-martial for words spoken of General Wilkinson, 8 ; tenders his resignation, 8 ; finding of the court, 9 ; letter to Lewis Edwards, 10 ; rejoins the army at Baton Rouge, La.; embarks for Washington; vessel gets aground, 11 ; appointed Colonel; visits the Secretary of War with General Hampton; an unpleasant incident, 12 ; war with Great Britain; ordered to the Niagara frontier, 13 ; volunteers to cross the Niagara; marches to Lewiston, 16 ; the attack on Fort George, 17 ; a flag of truce, 18 ; a prisoner, and attacked by Indians; embarks for Boston, 19 ; {345} addresses Irish prisoners; letter to Secretary of War, 20 ; selects hostages in retaliation for Irish prisoners, 21 ; returns to Washington, 22 ; ordered to Philadelphia; appointed Adjutant General; promoted Colonel of his regiment; joins General Dearborn, and appointed chief of staff, 23 ; assault on Fort George; Scott leads the advance, 24 ; struck by a piece of timber and collar bone broken, 25 ; anecdote of a British officer, 26 ; resigns the office of Adjutant General, 27 ; joins General Wilkinson, 28 ; marches for Sackett's Harbor; appointed to command of a battalion; preparing new levies of troops, 29 ; appointed Brigadier General; ordered to join General Jacob Brown; establishes camp of instruction at Sackett's Harbor; assigned to a new command; moves toward Chippewa, 30 ; wins the battle of Chippewa; report of General Brown, 32 ; moves to mouth of the Niagara, 33 ; battle of Lundy's Lane, 34 , 35 ; General Scott disabled, 37 - 39 ; in command for defense of Philadelphia and Baltimore, 39 ; reception at Princeton; declined to act as Secretary of War; ordered to Europe, 40 ; receives attention in Europe; return home; headquarters in New York; married to Miss Mayo, of Richmond; names of his children, 41 ; Congress passes resolutions complimenting him; present at the death of President Monroe; thanked by Legislatures of Virginia and New York; honorary member of the Society of the Cincinnati; order of General Jackson, 42 ; letter of General Jackson to General Scott; his reply, 43 ; letter to General Jackson, 44 ; General Jackson's reply; Scott calls on General Jackson, 45 ; tribute to General Jackson; his work on general regulations for the army, 46 ; president of board of army and militia officers; publication of his work on infantry tactics; the temperance reform; his views on, 47 ; controversy with General Gaines; tenders his resignation; not accepted, 48 ; letter to Secretary of War; the Secretary's reply, 49 ; assigned to command of Eastern Department; treaty with Sac Indians, 50 ; ordered to Illinois; Asiatic cholera, 53 ; letter to Governor Reynolds, 54 ; newspaper extracts in regard to General Scott's action in the cholera epidemic, 55 - 57 ; commissioner to treat with Indians; result of the treaty, 58 ; {346} arrives in New York, and ordered to Washington; the tariff act of 1828 and excitement in South Carolina, 60 ; ordered to South Carolina, 66 ; letter of instruction from Secretary of War; arrival in Charleston, 66 , 67 ; detained by accident, 68 ; success of his mission, 71 ; ordered to immediate command in Florida, 98 ; disposition of troops, 110 - 112 ; movement of troops, 114 ; the army arrives at Tampa Bay, 117 ; arrival at Fort Brooke, 118 ; embarks on St, John's River, 120 ; complaint against General Jesup; court of inquiry on Florida campaign, 122 ; finding of the court; letter to Secretary of War, 123 ; defense in Congress, 124 ; tendered dinner in New York; declines, 127 ; ordered to remove the Creek Indians, 129 ; addresses to troops and Indians, 130 , 132 , 133 ; the Indians move West, 135 ; ordered to look after Canada insurgents, 139 ; ordered to Maine, 140 ; meets Governor Everett; proceeds to Portland, 141 ; settlement of the troubles, 143 , 144 ; uprising in Upper Canada; affair of the Caroline, 144 , 145 ; ordered to the scene of the troubles; meets Governor Marcy, 146 ; letter to commanding officer of British vessels, 147 ; the affair settled, 147 , 148 ; his name presented to Whig Convention as candidate for the presidency, 152 ; effort in Congress to reduce his pay; letter to T.P. Atkinson on slavery, 153 ; letter to peace convention, 154 ; the War with Mexico; the "hasty plate of soup," 157 ; his opinion of General Taylor; ordered to Mexico; goes via New Orleans, 158 ; arrives at Brazos Santiago, 159 ; fails to meet General Taylor, 161 ; landing of the troops at Vera Cruz, 162 ; investment and surrender of Vera Cruz, 164 - 170 ; advances on Jalapa, 173 ; Cerro Gordo, 178 , 179 , 187 ; occupation of Puebla, 193 ; movement toward the City of Mexico; criticism by the Duke of Wellington, 195 , 196 ; address to Mexican people, 198 ; movement on and capture of Padierna, 204 - 207 ; Churubusco, 211 ; arrival of Nicholas P, Trist, U.S, Commissioner, 213 ; cessation of hostilities by armistice, 214 ; the armistice ended, 218 ; Molino del Rey, 219 - 222 ; attack on and capture of Chapultepec, 226 , 227 ; occupation of the capital; orders for government of the city, 229 ; additional orders, 231 - 234 ; orders for obtaining revenue in Mexico, 240 - 242 ; {347} letter to Secretary of War, 243 ; his civil administration of Mexico, 246 , 247 ; reports his total force, January 6, 1848; ordered before a court of inquiry; relieved from command of the army, 248 ; money levied on City of Mexico, 255 ; turns over command of the army, 264 ; General Orders No. 349, 270 ; letter to General Worth, 272 ; relieved from duty, 277 , 278 ; reads a paper before the court of inquiry, 281 , 282 ; submits paper to court of inquiry, 284 ; embarks at Vera Cruz for home, 288 ; receives thanks of Congress, 289 ; discontent in Canada, 293 ; candidate for the presidency (1852), 293 ; on commission to settle boundary line with Great Britain, 295 ; letter to President Buchanan, 296 , 297 ; letter to Secretary of War, 297 , 298 ; letter to Secretary of War, December 28; 1861, 298 ; letter to Secretary Seward, March 3; 1861, 299 ; firing of guns at Mobile on announcement that he had resigned, 304 ; order of April 26; 1861, at Washington, D.C., 306 ; issues General Orders No. 17; 308 ; complains of General McClellan, 309 ; request to be placed on retired list, 311 , 312 ; addresses the President and Cabinet on his retirement, 313 ; sails for Europe, November 9; 1861, 318 ; army asylum fund, 323 ; statue of, at Soldiers' Home, 327 ; his death and last words, 329 ; his acquaintance with English authors, 331 ; advice to young army officer, 330 , 331 ; anecdote of battle of Chippewa, 332 ; vain of his accomplishments; regular attendant at the Episcopal Church, 332 ; goes to West Point, 328 ; his loyalty, his strict ideas of discipline; anecdote, 333 .
— from General Scott by Marcus Joseph Wright