In that place, upon the hill, was wont to be a fair church; but it is all destroyed, so that there is now but an hermitage, that a manner of Christian men hold, that be clept Georgians, for Saint George converted them.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

This provision then nature herself seems to have furnished all animals with, as well immediately upon their first origin as also when they are arrived at a state of maturity; for at the first of these periods some of them are provided in the womb with proper nourishment, which continues till that which is born can get food for itself, as is the case with worms and birds; and as to those which bring forth their young alive, they have the means for their subsistence for a certain time within themselves, namely milk.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

I looked back through two years of my own life—out of jail, prosperous, happy, surrounded by blessings, comforts, good fortune—and thought how wide a gap it was, and how long those two years passed in solitary captivity would have been.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

(But perhaps some one will say that never to come off worse than the enemy must indeed be considered good fortune and felicity, but to make a stand against fortune calls for greater vigour and is a proof of greater valour.)
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

[ 152 ] bugarak v [B46; c] gush, flow out with a rush.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“The third, I said the third!” cried the prince abruptly, pushing the letter away, and leaning his elbows on the table he drew toward him the exercise book containing geometrical figures.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

verb [ sub , below , + sequor , follow ], follow close after, follow up suc-cēdō, -ere, -cessī, -cessus [ sub , below , + cēdō , go ], follow, succeed suī , reflexive pron. of himself (herself, itself, themselves) ( § 480 ).
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

On this account, a mountainous country is the best campaigning ground for popular levies.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

The black clouds gather from afar, As mighty armies march to war, And when they meet in thunder-crash, I see their spears of lightning flash.
— from Chatterbox, 1906 by Various

If we wish to make an impression on the minds of any persons in France, or to persuade them to join our standard, it is impossible that they should not be more easily led, and more readily formed and disciplined, (civilly and martially disciplined,) by those who speak their language, who are acquainted with their manners, who are conversant with their usages and habits of thinking, and who have a local knowledge of their country, and some remains of ancient credit and consideration, than with a body con gregated from all tongues and tribes.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

"Say ye so, brother?" cried Giles full eager, his brown eyes a-kindle, "say ye so in very truth?
— from Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol

And he returns to the theme: == "Can not one say with authority to the young artist, whether working in stone, in color, in tones, or in character-forms of the novel: So far from dreading that your moral purpose will interfere with your beautiful creation, go forward in the clear conviction that unless you are suffused — soul and body, one might say — with that moral purpose which finds its largest expression in love; that is, the love of all things in their proper relation; unless you are suffused with this love, do not dare to meddle with beauty; unless you are suffused with beauty, do not dare to meddle with love; unless you are suffused with truth, do not dare to meddle with goodness; in a word, unless you are suffused with truth, wisdom, goodness, and love, abandon the hope that the ages will accept you as an artist.
— from The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier

Below the basha or kaid come sheikhs (village elders), who may be called gentlemen farmers.
— from In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory

A table under the window bore a little microscope, some dust in a saucer, some grimy glass slips and broken cover glasses, for Coote had "gone in for" biology a little.
— from Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

“You have not by chance got ‘Framley Parsonage?’”
— from The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

When the bills came Guy found that his own was a trifle, and Monsieur Louis waved aside all protest.
— from A Maker of History by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Those who now pass by Casa Guidi fancy an additional gloom has settled upon the dark face of the old palace, and grieve to think that those windows from which a spirit-face witnessed two Italian revolutions, and those large mysterious rooms where a spirit-hand translated the great Italian Cause into burning verse, and pleaded the rights of humanity in "Aurora Leigh," are hereafter to be the passing homes of the thoughtless or the unsympathizing.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various