In this case, everything concerning the consummation of the campaign is known, because everything must be done through words of command: but even here subordinates are taken for granted, who apply [Pg 138] and adapt the general plan to the particular emergency, to the degree of strength, etc.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This simple outline reduced Swann to utter confusion by enabling him suddenly to perceive that Odette had an existence which was not wholly subordinated to his own; he burned to know whom she had been seeking to fascinate by this costume in which he had never seen her; he registered a vow to insist upon her telling him where she had been going at that intercepted moment, as though, in all the colourless life—a life almost nonexistent, since she was then invisible to him—of his mistress, there had been but a single incident apart from all those smiles directed towards himself; namely, her walking abroad beneath a Rembrandt hat, with a bunch of violets in her bosom.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

He fancied that every wave behind him was a pursuing boat, and he redoubled his exertions, increasing rapidly his distance from the château, but exhausting his strength.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

But he could not be convinced till he had examined it, and then endeavoured to conceal his confusion, by expressing his surprise in finding the skin untouched and the plaster missing.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

When surrender can be effected, he should be given the simplest, plainest command the circumstances allow.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

No, madam; for so long As he could make me with his eye, or care Distinguish him from others, he did keep The deck, with glove, or hat, or handkerchief, Still waving, as the fits and stirs of's mind Could best express how slow his soul sail'd on, How swift his ship.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The amount of this gas normally present in the free air is about three-hundredths of one per cent, but experiments have shown that thirty times this amount—a percentage higher than is found in the worst ventilated rooms—may be breathed for hours together without detrimental effects.
— from Meteorology: The Science of the Atmosphere by Charles Fitzhugh Talman

“I cannot be everywhere,” he said, aloud, “but my enemies shall soon find out that I am here, and I shall know how to avenge the disgrace of Trafalgar by a brilliant victory.”
— from Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

And no doubt could be entertained had such an event taken place, but we should have heard denunciations against the Administration proceeding from the very quarter whence they now flow.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Has vero terras in Leycest'syre et in Staffordsyre dedit Galfridus Ridel et concessit Bertramo et heredibus suis tenendas de illo et de heredibus suis in feodo et hereditate libere et quiete per prenominatum servitium pro omnibus que ad illum pertinent, et pro ista donatione et
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

Antonio found that the snow-shoes bore him up completely, but Ellen had sunk down into the drift when she was deprived of them.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIII.—April, 1852.—Vol. IV. None by Various

This I did not venture to do in the earlier cases; but experience has shown that the compound which carbolic acid forms with the blood, and also any portions of tissue killed by its caustic action, including even parts of the bone, are disposed of by absorption and organisation, provided they are afterwards kept from decomposing.
— from The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various

Considerable burg, eh?" He shakes his head kinda sad and sighs.
— from Alex the Great by H. C. (Harry Charles) Witwer

He took her on an ox-sled to Lake Erie, a distance of two miles, where, after a hole was cut through three feet of solid ice, she was baptized and confirmed into the Church by Elder Hyrum Smith.
— from Scraps of Biography Tenth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints by Various

CHAPTER XV A storm can be endured, however severe it be, if one is safe on the land.
— from Skipper Worse by Alexander Lange Kielland