There is no sense that has not a mighty dominion, and that does not by its power introduce an infinite number of knowledges.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

“I have told you where you are to direct a letter to, if you want to write, but I put it down below lest you should have forgotten.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

I appreciated my loss of sympathy, but I put it down to the general inanity of things.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Life and cheerfulness gleamed there, and busy industry plied its work.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

After months of fighting, Koxinga, with an overpowering force of Chinese, compelled the surrender of the Hollanders and the beautiful island passed into his power.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

But in practice in England it has in some cases reached a rather absurd extent, when a man on marrying an only daughter of the youngest son of the youngest branch of a family consequently acquires the right to display with his own ensigns the full arms and quarterings of Page 536 {536} the head of a house from which he has inherited no lands, and which is still thriving in the senior male line.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

First, because they recollected that in the previous year, when the Romans spread themselves in every direction over the countries on the other side of the Rhine, not one of the barbarians stood to defend his home, nor ventured to encounter them; but they contented themselves with blockading the roads in every direction with vast abattis, throughout the whole winter retiring into the remote districts, and willingly endured the greatest hardships rather than fight; recollecting also that, after the emperor actually invaded their territories, the barbarians neither ventured to make any resistance, nor even to show themselves at all, but implored peace in the most suppliant manner, till they obtained it.
— from The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Ammianus Marcellinus

There, drenched with blood and bathed in poetry, is Helen.
— from Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus

Though scouts and detachments of cavalry remain in contact with the enemy, or at least push forward to a considerable distance, more detailed reconnoissance by infantry patrols in the foreground must not be neglected.
— from Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Cavalry of the Army of the United States 1917. To be also used by Engineer Companies (Mounted) for Cavalry Instruction and Training by United States. War Department

C. botrytes is plentiful in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia and like latitudes.
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine

The kernel of truth in Rousseau's doctrine is this, that while the soldier is put in an actively hostile position, the peaceable subject of a belligerent is put in a passively hostile position; but the doctrine is absolutely misunderstood, although the distinction which it asserts is quite commonly recognized.
— from The Future of International Law by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

The principal force of this world he called some kind of matter, but I placed instead of matter God, and all went smoothly.
— from The Confession: A Novel by Maksim Gorky

The body is placed in the tomb in an upright posture, and skins are carefully spread round it, so that no part may touch the earth.
— from Anecdotes of the American Indians Illustrating their Eccentricities of Character by Alexander Vietts Blake