They came like silent ghosts, concerted their plan of operation, passed over the river at the old trading ford opposite to the late fort, which lay between two contiguous commanding hills, and, proceeding downward over a broad creek, formed a large semicircle from the river bank, while the town seemed to be taking its usual rest.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Cicero, M. T., his opinion of J. Caesar, 7 and 21; appealed to by him, 11; commends Caesar’s oratory, 35; remarks on the works of, 60-65; dream of, 140. Cinna, Cornelius Helvius, a poet, 517 and note.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

I could not chance causing her additional pain or sorrow by declaring a love which, in all probability she did not return.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Do you believe that chestnuts can hurt a Perigordin or a Lucchese, or milk and cheese the mountain people?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

He told me once, himself, that he was wrecked in an American brig on the Goodwin Sands, and was sent up to London, to the charge of the American consul, without clothing to his back or shoes to his feet, and was obliged to go about London streets in his stocking feet three or four days, in the month of January, until the consul could have a pair of shoes made for him.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

"Now, God bless the jam to my use," cried the little tailor, "and give me health and strength;" so he brought the bread out of the cupboard, cut himself a piece right across the loaf and spread the jam over it.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

It never did, said the corporal. C H A P. XLV ——But ’tis no marvel, continued the corporal—seeing my uncle Toby musing upon it—for Love, an’ please your honour, is exactly like war, in this; that a soldier, though he has escaped three weeks complete o’ Saturday night,—may nevertheless be shot through his heart on Sunday morning—— It happened so here, an’ please your honour, with this difference only—that it was on Sun- 136 day in the afternoon, when I fell in love all at once with a sisserara——It burst upon me, an’ please your honour, like a bomb——scarce giving me time to say, “ God bless me.”
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

He leaned across the candle, crossing his arms, putting his angular and ferocious jaw close to M. Leblanc’s calm face, and advancing as far as possible without forcing M. Leblanc to retreat, and, in this posture of a wild beast who is about to bite, he exclaimed:— “My name is not Fabantou, my name is not Jondrette, my name is Thénardier.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

We are compelled to consider carefully how a process of simultaneous disarmament can actually be carried out, and what results might be anticipated from this step, with a view not only to the present but the future.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

‘Now, this jam shall be blessed by God,’ cried the little tailor, ‘and give me health and strength’; so he brought the bread out of the cupboard, cut himself a piece right across the loaf and spread the jam over it.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

While the acts of congress and the decisions of courts may make treasury notes legal tender for all domestic debts, and all foreign debts payable in this country, neither the acts of congress nor the decisions of courts can have any power or [Pg 287] controlling influence over other nations.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

Those who had seen a cohort, invariably magnified it into a legion; a troop of cavalry covered half a province; and the cohorts marching from Asia Minor and Egypt for our garrisons, were reckoned by the very largest enumeration within the teller’s capacity.
— from Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew. by George Croly

On the 7th of May Van Caerden wrote to Captain d’Ataide that he intended to burn and destroy all the churches, convents, houses, and palm groves on the island and the buildings and plantations on the mainland, unless they were ransomed; but offered to make terms if messengers were sent to him with that object.
— from Willem Adriaan Van Der Stel, and Other Historical Sketches by George McCall Theal

He watched the course closely, having a particularly fine tell-tale compass swung beneath the skylight in his private cabin, as every one of us had evidence by the uncanny way in which he would pop up out of the companion at the most unheard of hours of the night and walk quickly to the binnacle, and seldom except when the helmsman was off his course.
— from Under Sail by Felix Riesenberg

The classification of iron ores on the basis of exterior characteristics, chiefly hardness and [Pg 112] brilliancy, does not justify a more narrow rendering than "ironstone."
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

[Pg 43] HOW CHAPKIN HALID BECAME CHIEF DETECTIVE n Balata there lived, some years ago, two scapegraces, called Chapkin Halid and Pitch Osman.
— from Told in the Coffee House: Turkish Tales by Cyrus Adler

"A gibbet!" cried Canolles, halting, and pointing to the structure.
— from The War of Women, Volume 2 by Alexandre Dumas

It is well that a man should appear, who is willing, for the sake of a trifling difference in the price for which he may obtain his labourers, to take the trouble, and undergo the risk of person and of property in controuling a set of uneducated men, who cannot consequently have any principle of action, and whose habits are of the worst description.
— from Travels in Brazil by Henry Koster