L'APPÉTIT VIENT EN MANGEANT «À quoi sont destinés ces éléphants, ces armes, cet attirail de guerre et ces vaisseaux tout prêts à mettre à
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

As the morning went on, and the fires began to be kindled, and the windows to open, and the people to appear out of the houses, my concern and despondency grew ever the blacker.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

“Quand l’institution d’une haute cour,” writes Laveleye, ( Des causes actuelles de guerre en Europe et de l’arbitrage )
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

There are crosses at Denchworth, Goosey, East Hagbourne, Inglesham, North or Ferry Hinksey, Steventon, etc. [ 113 ]
— from Berkshire by Horace Woollaston Monckton

The long envelope he handed in felt rough to the touch; the light of a match showed its color a dull gray; every inch of it said, "Surrender."
— from History of the Nineteenth Army Corps by Richard B. (Richard Biddle) Irwin

Then the Saratoga fired her carronades, at point-blank range, cut up the cables aboard the Confiance , and did great execution among the crew.
— from The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812 by William Charles Henry Wood

From considering Marco Polo's account of his travels in the east of Asia, Columbus also derived great encouragement; for, according to him, Cathay and Zepango stretched out to a great extent in an easterly direction; of course they must approach so much the more towards the west of Europe.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson

The Whigs are unwilling to be distanced this way, and therefore design a present to the same Cato very speedily; in the meantime they are getting ready as good a sentence as the former on their side; so betwixt them it is probable that Cato (as Dr. Garth expressed it) may have something to live upon after he dies.”
— from Addison by William John Courthope

(Manchester Grammar).—To finish drill (dumb-bells, clubs, &c.), and do gymnastic exercises on the ladder, bars, rings, and ropes.
— from The Public School Word-book A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities by John Stephen Farmer