The difficulties of crossing a river, particularly a large one, in the face of the enemy, demonstrate abundantly the immense utility of such works, which can be less easily dispensed with than intrenched camps, since if the bridges are safe an army is insured from the disastrous events which may attend a rapid retreat across a large river.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

] I hate a froward and dismal spirit, that slips over all the pleasures of life and seizes and feeds upon misfortunes; like flies, that cannot stick to a smooth and polished body, but fix and repose themselves upon craggy and rough places, and like cupping-glasses, that only suck and attract bad blood.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

It could not be Mrs. Lockhart, either; she was of a placid constitution, and reposed peacefully and long.
— from Dust: A Novel by Julian Hawthorne

The Rajah also presides in the Supreme and in the Police Courts, hearing and settling all cases and receiving petitions, and listening to complaints after the cases are disposed of; seeing all, whoever they are, and whatever their occasion.
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde

The soldiers were clustered beneath the porch; but a sentinel was watching from one of the loop-holes of the tower, and as he caught sight of the travellers, called out gayly to the others, "Halloa! comrades, here comes a rich prize: a Lombard knight, some Genoese merchants, and a lady!
— from Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Conrad von Bolanden

"] I hate a froward and dismal spirit, that slips over all the pleasures of life and seizes and feeds upon misfortunes; like flies, that cannot stick to a smooth and polished body, but fix and repose themselves upon craggy and rough places, and like cupping-glasses, that only suck and attract bad blood.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 15 by Michel de Montaigne

She then stepped across to Audry’s cherished and rare possession, a long mirror which had come from Italy.
— from The Child of the Moat: A Story for Girls. 1557 A.D. by I. B. (Ian Bernard) Stoughton Holborn

The conjunction as , when it is connected with such , many , or same , is sometimes, though erroneously, called a relative pronoun ; as, "Let such as presume to advise others," &c.; that is, Let them who , &c. See page 116.
— from English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises : designed for the use of schools and private learners by Samuel Kirkham

Next to them was the appointed place of the fish hucksters, which was an odorous place, where channel cats and river perch and lake crappies were piled on the benches, some still alive and feebly flapping.
— from Back Home: Being the Narrative of Judge Priest and His People by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

It is as if Titian, in striving to go beyond anything that had hitherto been done of the same kind, had also gone beyond his own artistic convictions, and thus, while compassing a remarkable pictorial achievement, lost his true balance.
— from The Later Works of Titian by Phillips, Claude, Sir