The British loss, in killed and wounded, amounted to 895 Westcott was the only captain who fell; 3105 of the French, including the wounded, were sent on shore by cartel, and 5225 perished.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

This man abolished the old soldiery, organized the new, gave up old alliances, made new ones; and as he had his own soldiers and allies, on such foundations he was able to build any edifice: thus, whilst he had endured much trouble in acquiring, he had but little in keeping.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

"You haven't been to Marksville post-office and back before light, I know."
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

In the 4 battles fought in 1881 and the two fought by Jameson, the British loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners, was substantially 1,300 men; the Boer loss, as far as is ascertainable, was about 30 men.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

When, on the other hand, L and M, the common iliac arteries, divide, immediately after leaving the aortic trunk, into two pairs of branches, they correspond to the abnormal condition of the vessels, H I K, above; where H, immediately after leaving the aortic arch, divides into two branches, like I K. With this generalization upon the normal and abnormal facts of arrangement, exhibited among the vessels arising from both ends of the aorta, I furnish to the reader the idea that the vessels, H I K, above may present of the same figure as the vessels, L M, below, and these latter may assume the character of H I K, above.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

“Pyrotechnic, Pyrotechnic, you mean,” said a Bengal Light; “I know it is Pyrotechnic, for I saw it written on my own canister.”
— from The Happy Prince, and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde

The widow put in a good word for me, but that warn’t going to keep off the bad luck, I knowed that well enough.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The grotesques, so often a stumbling-block to painters, who forget that the words of a poet, which only feebly present an image to the mind, must be lowered in key when translated into visible form, make one regret that he has not rather chosen for illustration the more subdued imagery of the Purgatorio.
— from The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry by Walter Pater

But little is known about the habits of these birds during the breeding season, for their nests are usually built in the inmost recesses of some thicket almost inaccessible to man.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 1 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

The British loss in killed and wounded was two hundred and five.
— from The American Revolution by John Fiske

Of his history but little is known.
— from Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman

Heer Antony told him, laughing, to remember that he was not yet out of the territories of the lord of the Dunderberg; and an old Indian shook his head, and observed that there was bad luck in killing an eagle—the hunter, on the contrary, should always leave him a portion of his spoils.
— from Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Washington Irving

She asked for as much land as her tame deer could run over in one course, and received over ten thousand acres of the best land in Kent
— from Woman under Monasticism Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 by Lina Eckenstein

But little is known of Cabral, and nothing of the reason which had gained him the command of this important expedition.
— from Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 1. The Exploration of the World by Jules Verne

But little is known of them, though the evidence is that long before the Christian Era they were a powerful people.
— from The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races by Emory Adams Allen

“Love, if it be love, is known in a moment.
— from The Man Between: An International Romance by Amelia E. Barr

But if ye found yeself a bit low in kit, as Batty is this day, what would ye say, Ned, me boy, was the first salient—what is the first essintial in the dress of a gintleman, me boy?" "Linen," said Franklin, "or is it gloves?"
— from The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Emerson Hough