Unable to conquer the uneasiness she felt at the prospect of sleeping again in this remote and insecure apartment, which some person seemed to have entered during the preceding night, her impatience to see Annette, whom she had bidden to enquire concerning this circumstance, became extremely painful.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

If one extremity of a line rests upon a river, it seems absurd to think of penetrating upon that wing, because the enemy collecting his forces, the mass of which would be near the center, might defeat the columns advancing between the center and the river and completely destroy them.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

They were not satisfied with burning the living, they also delivered to the flames the bodies of those who had died a natural death before their execution could be carried out, as if an anticipated death should not be allowed to save them from the punishment which they had deserved.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

These tone values are only to be perceived in their true relationship by the eye contemplating a wide field of vision.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

What makes his Character the pleasanter is, that he is a professed Deluder of Women; and because the empty Coxcomb has no Regard to any thing that is of it self Sacred and Inviolable, I have heard an unmarried Lady of Fortune say, It is pity so fine a Gentleman as Vocifer is so great an Atheist.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The dream, always highly valued by the populace, and as much despised by the educated classes, has a definite structure and meaning when subjected to analysis.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

But the entire contract could be assigned to him—the security was ample—it was a fortune to him if it was forfeited.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

In Mexico, the gap between the educated classes and the peons is fully as [ 297 ] great as, if not greater than, the gap between the extremes of Filipino society.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Perseverance has wrought from the marble block the exquisite creations of genius, painted on canvas the gorgeous mimicry of nature, and engraved on a metallic surface the viewless substance of the shadow.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The task was therefore imposed upon Lovel, who received, with some trepidation, as Miss Wardour delivered, with a little embarrassment, a paper containing the lines traced by that fair hand, the possession of which he coveted as the highest blessing the earth could offer to him.
— from The Antiquary — Complete by Walter Scott

They got within 800 yards of the houses, but the enemy contrived to block their further advance by various obstacles which they placed on the roads.
— from The Invasion of 1910, with a full account of the siege of London by William Le Queux

She was safe enough to come and go from the passage entrance to the nearby furnace Grenville had moved to facilitate her duties, but the smoke seemed far more stifling and hot than it had the previous day, while, with headache, thirst, and a heaviness in all her weary being, the endlessly cheerful and courageous little companion of Grenville's maddening ordeal felt ready to drop and rise no more.
— from As It Was in the Beginning by Philip Verrill Mighels

Bright the eyes certainly were, and at that moment they sparkled with surprise and pleasure at the wanderer's return; but before Alexis had concluded his somewhat boisterous greetings, their brightness was veiled by an expression of melancholy, and the momentary flush upon the maiden's cheek was replaced by a pallid hue, which seemed habitual, but unnatural.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 68, No 422, December 1850 by Various

Sultan Mahmoud, believing that European civilization was superior to that of the East, imagined that he adopted it,
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Sam was so depressed by the erratic course of school justice that he went over to Dr. Leighton’s that evening and told him the whole story, in which Fish figured only as “a fellow in the well.”
— from The Yale Cup by Albertus T. (Albertus True) Dudley

No Reformer who understood the general character of the English people, and who had studied the development of political growth in England, could have gone more prudently and wisely about the work of bringing the existing Constitution into harmony with the altering conditions, and removing out of its way all difficulties that might interfere with its gradual and safe development in the future.
— from A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy

As the writer understood Spanish, and as some one was wanting to interpret between the English crew and those managers of the negroes, he proposed to go on board with them to their place of destination, the Cape of Good Hope.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various

Spinola was not entering their capital in triumph, a Spanish army was not marching —as it might have done had the course of events been different—over the protective rivers and marshes of the fatherland, now changed by the exceptional cold into solid highways for invasion.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1608a by John Lothrop Motley