Probably sometimes in cases of repetition, enumeration, or sharp antithesis, and where there is an important pause in the sense: as, eam volt meretrīcem facere: ea mē dēperit , Pl.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The struggle between systems, together with the struggle between epistemological scruples, is one which involves very special instincts (forms of vitality, of decline, of classes, of races, etc.).
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Instances of a great battle deciding a whole campaign, have been frequent only in modern times, those which have decided a whole War, belong to the class of rare exceptions.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

In this chapter we shall make an analysis of the process of thinking into its steps or elementary constituents, basing the analysis upon descriptions of a number of extremely simple, but genuine, cases of reflective experience.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

In considering the force of these sanctions, I shall eliminate those pleasures and pains which lie in the anticipation of rewards and punishments in a future life: for as we are now supposing the calculations of Rational Egoism to be performed without taking into account any feelings that are beyond the range of experience, it will be more consistent to exclude also the pleasurable or painful anticipations of such feelings.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

l. 1. hoc ferali bello et caedibus omnia repleverunt, et regnum amplissimum a fundamentis pene everterunt, plebis tot myriades gladio, bello, fame miserabiliter perierunt.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In a minute I roused my staff, and started them off with orders in every direction for a pursuit by every possible road, hoping to catch Johnston in the confusion of retreat, especially at the crossing of the Chattahoochee River.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The Latin general, not in the least discouraged by his wound, stirs up the fight; and because he saw his own men begin to give ground, sent for a company of Roman exiles to support them, commanded by Tarquin's son.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

One Evening at the Close Of Ramazan, ere the better Moon arose, In that old Potter's Shop I stood alone With the clay Population round in Rows.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

Cut Bank Chalets via Triple Divide Pass (7,400) and Triple Divide Peak (8,001) to Red Eagle Camp on Red Eagle Lake (4,702), 16 miles.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior

you little bastard, and to hell with you!" This waif disappeared into the slums without leaving any clue to his identity, and without any certainty of rescue, except by means of a quickened public conscience that shall organize to mend the existing defects arising from our careless lack of system in child protection, so as to rescue all waifs in need , in order to include the lost waif of our story.
— from That Last Waif; or, Social Quarantine by Horace Fletcher

Cato, when Censor of Rome, expelled from the Senate Manilius, whom the general opinion had marked out for counsellor, because he had given his wife a kiss in the day time, in the sight of his daughter.
— from The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

With a wild cry of rapture, Eugene caught her to his heart, and imprinted one long, loving lass upon her lips.
— from Prince Eugene and His Times by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

The methods of training these riflemen were very similar to those employed in training temporary light infantry corps composed of the light companies of regiments, except in so far as the superior range and accuracy of the rifle over [112] the flintlock musket altered the conditions of the attack and defence.
— from The Life of a Regimental Officer During the Great War, 1793-1815 by A. F. (Augustus Ferryman) Mockler-Ferryman

Measured on the map, it is but half a mile, but that half mile will tax his muscles; he must climb up gullies that the mountain torrents have worn out of the precipices, and over slabs of rock sloping down into space at an angle that makes handhold necessary as well as foothold; he must creep out round edges on to the faces of perpendicular cliffs, only to find that after all the perpendicular cliff itself must be scaled before he can win back again to the ridge that is to lead him to the topmost peak.
— from Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges by Norman Collie

(Last chapter, on reproduction, excellent.)
— from Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life by Maurice A. (Maurice Alpheus) Bigelow

I have just said that every class of rock, earth and cloud, must be known by the painter, with geologic and meteorologic accuracy.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) by John Ruskin

But the control of reproduction, enormously beneficial as it is even in its most elementary shapes, mainly concerns us here because it furnishes the essential condition for the development of Social Hygiene.
— from The Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis