Wurmser had begun his campaign successfully by defeating Massena, and pushing back Sauret at Salo.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

A poor barren country, full of continual broils, dissensions, massacrings; a people in the last state of rudeness and destitution; little better perhaps than Ireland at this day.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

There remain a few idle men of fortune, tavern and grog-shop loungers, lazzaroni, old bachelors, decaying maidens, and people of crooked intellect or temper, all of whom may find their like, or some tolerable approach to it, in the plentiful diversity of our latter class.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thousand places of entertainment to expense your evenings with lovely ladies saling gloves and other things perhaps hers heart beerchops perfect fashionable house very eccentric where lots cocottes beautiful dressed much about princesses like are dancing cancan and walking there parisian clowneries
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

It is the magician’s duty to bring down misfortune and plagues on the enemies of his tribe, and to guard his own people against hostile magic.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Quand j'ai pu aider tel(le) internaute à l'autre bout du monde (Australie, par exemple) sur une question précise, via le hasard du questionnement.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

V. compel, force, make, drive, coerce, constrain, enforce, necessitate, oblige. force upon, press; cram down the throat, thrust down the throat, force down the throat; say it must be done, make a point of, insist upon, take no denial; put down, dragoon. extort, wring from; squeeze, put on the squeeze; put on the screws, turn on the screw; drag into; bind, bind over; pin down, tie down; require, tax, put in force; commandeer; restrain &c. 751.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

This may lead to your being dreadfully misunderstood and putting yourself and all of us in a false position.
— from Lady Betty Across the Water by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Those of Blaise de Montluc are purely military, those of Brantôme are mostly scandalous.
— from The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith

This interchange between dead memories and present life is the delight of travel.
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds

How must such a scene have impressed a generation which for long years had seen nothing in the Salon but dry mythology and painted statues!
— from The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX century by Richard Muther

Every effort should, therefore, be directed, mentally and physically, to break the chain of nervous action, on which the continuance of the cough depends.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

Enrolled as a servant, he speedily sat at the master's right hand, and his nimble brains devised many a pretty campaign.
— from A Book of Scoundrels by Charles Whibley

The French manufacturer, without altering the basic design, made a (p. 46) number of changes of detail which seem to have greatly annoyed Wilbur Wright, although some of them could probably be listed as improvements, based on several features of later standard design.
— from The Wright Brothers' Engines and Their Design by Leonard S. Hobbs

Isl. blanda , cinnus, mixtura, pro potu, aqua mixto; Su. G. bland dicebatur mel aqua permixtum.
— from An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals by John Jamieson