That the journey should have been made in a boat up Rock River against the stream, may sound like a legend; why not have walked this comparatively short distance (about forty miles), just as Gilderhus and party had walked the much longer distance from La Salle County?
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

The distinction between the two forms cannot be brought under rigid rules, but the following suggestions will be of use.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Accordingly, every wise prince who loves his throne and his family will walk before his people as a type of true religion; just as even Machiavelli, in the eighteenth chapter of his book, urgently recommended religion to princes.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

The Army of the Tennessee was still short by the two divisions detached with General Banks, up Red River, and two other divisions on furlough in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, but which were rendezvousing at Cairo, under Generals Leggett and Crocker, to form a part of the Seventeenth Corps, which corps was to be commanded by Major-General Frank P. Blair, then a member of Congress, in Washington.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

General G. J. Smith, with the two divisions of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Corps which had been with General Banks up Red River, had returned from that ill-fated expedition, and had been ordered to General Canby at New Orleans, who was making a diversion about Mobile; but, on hearing of General Sturgis's defeat, I ordered General Smith to go out from Memphis and renew the offensive, so as to keep Forrest off our roads.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Every man, every material object, has moral affinities enveloping an indomitable vital nucleus or brute personal kernel; this moral essence is enveloped in turn by untraceable relations, radiating to infinity over the natural world.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Don’t be uneasy, Rodion Romanovitch, if I were working for my own advantage, I would not have spoken out so directly.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But who doubts that the modern prohibition of the marriage even of cousins is the more seemly regulation,—not merely on account of the reason we have been urging, the multiplying of relationships, so that one person might not absorb two, which might be distributed to two persons, and so increase the number of people bound together as a family, but also because there is in human nature I know not what natural and praiseworthy shamefacedness which restrains us from desiring that connection which, though for propagation, is yet lustful, and which even conjugal modesty blushes over, with any one to whom consanguinity bids us render respect?
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Classes were broken up, rules relaxed.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

appeal to arms, appeal to the sword; ordeal of battle; wager of battle; ultima ratio regum[Lat], arbitrament of the sword.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

But for the lady, in all likelihood Monmouth would still be under Royalist rule—nay, I may say surely would.”
— from No Quarter! by Mayne Reid

he cried ferociously, and, bouncing up, ran round the base of the tower.
— from Admiral's Light by Henry Milner Rideout

In the opposite quarter there appeared a tenacity of diction and an emphasis of opinion on old lines, accompanied by ungenerous reflections respecting those whom they deemed innovators.
— from Recollections of a Long Life by John Stoughton

You see, I am not a very sensitive man, and I was brought up rather roughly.
— from Whosoever Shall Offend by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

General Banks's movement, however, contemplated my sending a force of ten thousand men in boats up Red River from Vicksburg, and that a junction should occur at Alexandria by March 17th.
— from Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume I., Part 2 by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Here, since in the course of our wanderings we shall be upon Roman roads fairly often, and upon reputed Roman roads much more often, I am going to take the bull frankly by the horns and to dispose at once of a problem which, taken in detail, might be tedious.
— from Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by James Edmund Vincent