Would it not always have been easy for our rear to remedy the accident by promptly standing on to fill the place of the vessels cut off?
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

But except for one reason, the news of her sister’s approaching marriage was rather agreeable to Philippa.
— from The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel by Emily Sarah Holt

31 The tendency of the time is well illustrated by an anecdote told by Slonimsky, to the effect that when he went to ask the approval of Rabbi Abele of Zaslava on his Mosde Hokmah , he found that those who came to be examined for ordination received their award without delay, while he was put off from week to week.
— from The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. (Jacob Salmon) Raisin

Such a request is very nearly the equivalent of a declaration that their navigation is not profitable, that the commodities which they are to carry can be taken at a cheaper rate by some other method, in which case the hundreds of millions of dollars proposed to be expended for opening rivers to navigation would be not only wasted, but would entail further constant expenditures to carry the commodities of private persons for less than cost.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

In a word, the lesson of the struggle on the sea had been, that modern artillery was just as effective whether fired by Englishmen, Frenchmen, or Russians; that where a torpedo struck a warship was crippled, no matter what the nationality or the relative valour of her crew; and that where once the ram found its mark the ship that it struck went down, no matter what flag she was flying.
— from The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror by George Chetwynd Griffith

It must have been a proud moment for the poet when he saw his work thus finely interpreted by Talma; but it must have been quite a different matter to Talma, for he felt that the limits of art could be extended farther, or rather that art has no boundaries.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. II, 1822 to 1825 by Alexandre Dumas

We shall abolish all prerogatives of class, party and creed; not only life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness will be free to all, but entire freedom of religious thought and free speech will be the unquestioned right of all the inhabitants of America.
— from Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Willie Walker Caldwell

The line A B must equal the line C D; somewhere in space must be found the centre or the focus of every curve; and every angle must subtend a certain arc, to be easily found on reference to the tables of the text-books.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

"It's bad enough for our reputation to let a rival collar what is by right our scoop.
— from The Sea-girt Fortress: A Story of Heligoland by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Their names were Giovanni Andrea Lampugnano, Girolamo Olgiato, and Carlo Visconti; and, I dare say, descendants of theirs, whether under those names or others, may yet be found in the fair city of Milan; and perhaps they may be equally fond of reading the Roman history,—an occupation, it might be supposed, as innocent, though not so fatiguing, as riding over the Apennines in a suit of cloth of gold.
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 1 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope