The enemy is in the island in countless numbers, and we are lost unless your skill and valour come to our support."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The seditions had now become urban wars, in which blood was freely shed, and in which parties raged against one another, not with wrangling and verbal contention, but with physical force and arms.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

'What have you found?' asked Venus, clutching him with both hands, so that they stood interlocked like a couple of preposterous gladiators.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

It is seated among fields and woods, on the [242] edge of a slope; at the bottom winds a river; opposite is a most singular conical hill, like an immense Indian tumulus for the dead; in the distance, through a vista cut judiciously through the forest, are seen the dark blue waters of Lake Ontario.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

If any one thinks that the mere obligation of preserving decency is not a very considerable check on the abuse of power, he has never had his attention called to the conduct of those who do not feel under the necessity of observing that restraint.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

Even the favours that fortune might have given me through relationship or acquaintance with those who have sovereign authority in those affairs, I have very conscientiously and very carefully avoided employing them to the prejudice of others, and of advancing my pretensions above their true right.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

17. Q R - K 1 R - K 1 18. P - Q B 4 Kt - B 2 A very clever move, tending to prevent P - B 5, and tempting White to play Kt × B, followed by B × P, which would be bad, as the following variation shows: 19 Kt × B, Q × Kt; 20 B × P, Kt - Kt 4; 21 Q - Kt 4, R × B; 22 P - K R 4, P - K R 4; 23 Q × R, P × Q; 24 R × R ch, K - R 2; 25 P × Kt, Q × P.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

'You'll have a very cold walk, Mr. Bumble,' said the matron.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

At the same time Sir Roger rode forward, and alighting, took up the Hare in his Arms; which he soon delivered up to one of his Servants with an Order, if she could be kept alive, to let her go in his great Orchard; where it seems he has several of these Prisoners of War, who live together in a very comfortable Captivity.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

" And a voice came human but high up, Like a cottage climbed among
— from The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

{47} “It was a very cruel thing,” adds Bassompierre, “to see more than 800 men who had surrendered slaughtered in cold blood.”
— from A Gallant of Lorraine; vol. 1 of 2 François, Seigneur de Bassompierre, Marquis d'Haronel, Maréchal de France, 1579-1646 by H. Noel (Hugh Noel) Williams

"I saw them myself: I heard them speak: I diligently inquired by what means such an articulate voice could be formed without any organ of speech: I used my eyes to examine the report of my ears; I opened their mouth, and saw that the whole tongue had been completely torn away by the roots; an operation which the physicians generally suppose to be mortal."
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 by Edward Gibbon

And as the princess shortly afterwards married a very charming prince, she no doubt changed her name.
— from Miscellanea by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

"Of course, it is a trap, and a very clever one.
— from A Traitor in London by Fergus Hume

Calm, and self-centred, and complete, the æsthetic critic contemplates life, and no arrow drawn at a venture can pierce between the joints of his harness.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

[41] Princess Aloysia von Clary was an extremely amiable lady.
— from Frederic Chopin: His Life, Letters, and Works, v. 1 (of 2) by Maurycy Karasowski

Besides, if we reflect on the manner in which trees grow, and consider how so considerable a volume can arise from so small an origin, we shall be convinced that it proceeds from the simple addition of small resembling organized particles.
— from Buffon's Natural History, Volume 02 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Mineral, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

‘Just as he said this, a voice calling for help, was heard from a lane adjoining to the play-yard.
— from The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse by Dorothy Kilner

He knows his work well, is a good coach, and very considerate and kind.
— from Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books by Horatia K. F. Eden

There are many broad anatomical distinctions which have never been explained, such as the absence of a part or organ in an animal very closely related to numerous other species, in every one of which not only does it exist, but is largely developed.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV July and October, 1871 by Various