And this is no more than his own conservation requireth, and is generally allowed.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

During the same and next day the whole army reached Alexandria, and camped round about it; General Meade's Army of the Potomac had possession of the camps above, opposite Washington and Georgetown.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

'Twas last Bank Holiday, so I've been told, Some cyclists rode abroad in glorious weather.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Phaedrus has been spending the morning with Lysias, the celebrated rhetorician, and is going to refresh himself by taking a walk outside the wall, when he is met by Socrates, who professes that he will not leave him until he has delivered up the speech with which Lysias has regaled him, and which he is carrying about in his mind, or more probably in a book hidden under his cloak, and is intending to study as he walks.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

When I got back to my inn I found my carriage ready, and I got in and drove to the meeting-place, and ordered a good supper for four, and an hour later my guests arrived.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The spirit of christianity of the great M.E. Church was aroused to the frequent and revolting crimes against a weak people, enough to pass strong condemnatory resolutions at its General Conference in Omaha last May.
— from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

For why, here stand I, Here the Duke comes, there are you close in the Thicket; the Duke appeares, I meete him and unto him I utter learned things and many figures; he heares, and nods, and hums, and then cries: rare, and I goe forward; at length I fling my Cap up; marke there; then do you, as once did Meleager and the Bore, break comly out before him: like true lovers, cast your selves in a Body decently, and sweetly, by a figure trace and turne, Boyes.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

[116] “From this diffidence of one another, there is no way for any man to secure himself, so reasonable, as anticipation; that is, by force, or wiles, to master the persons of all men he can, so long, till he see no other power great enough to endanger him: and this is no more than his own conservation requireth, and is generally allowed.”
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

An Ape asked a Fox for a part of her tail, that he might decently cover his naked hinder parts therewith; but the ill-natured creature replied : “Although it grow even longer than it is , still I will sooner drag it through mud and brambles, than give you ever so small a part thereof .”
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

The expanse before Santa Croce was vivid green; the Campagna rolled away in great green billows, which seemed to break high about the gaunt aqueducts; and the Alban Hills, which in January and February keep shifting and melting along the whole scale of azure, were almost monotonously fresh, and had lost some of their finer modelling.
— from Italian Hours by Henry James

The very suggestion of a charge never fails to act as a tonic to any British cavalry regiment, and in great elation of spirits the two cavalry regiments debouched from the village, the 4th Dragoon Guards making their exit from the left, and the two squadrons of the 9th Lancers from the right.
— from The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres by Hamilton, Ernest, Lord

The whole coast region abounds in great numbers of ruins.
— from The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races by Emory Adams Allen

Canoes are made here, at a cheaper rate and in greater numbers than in any other part of Brazil.
— from Travels in the interior of Brazil with notices on its climate, agriculture, commerce, population, mines, manners, and customs: and a particular account of the gold and diamond districts. by John Mawe

I wish I could rummage about in gutters and places as Jock does—but I don't think the things you find in gutters are ever really nice.
— from The Talking Horse, and Other Tales by F. Anstey

[Pg iv] ALTERNATING CURRENT DIAGRAMS 1,067 to 1,100 Definitions : impressed pressure, active pressure, self-induction pressure, reverse pressure of self-induction—rate of change in current strength—properties of right angle triangles—equations of the right triangle—representation of forces by wires—parallelogram of forces; the resultant — circuits containing resistance and inductance —graphical method of obtaining the impressed pressure— equations for ohmic drop and reactance drop —examples—diagram for impedance, angle of lag, etc.— circuits containing resistance and capacity —capacity in series, and in parallel—amount of lead—action of condenser—the condenser pressure—capacity pressure—equation for impedance—- examples and diagrams— circuits containing resistance, inductance, and capacity —impedance equation—examples and diagrams—equation for impressed pressure—examples and diagrams.
— from Hawkins Electrical Guide v. 05 (of 10) Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A progressive course of study for engineers, electricians, students and those desiring to acquire a working knowledge of electricity and its applications by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins

This is the scale of international physical and chemical reports; and is generally used in laboratory-work.
— from Men and Measures by Edward Nicholson

Soon, too, the French endeavoured to bring up their reserves in column, for their men would no longer advance in extended order; and now the small calibre rifle and its great penetration justified its existence; I had not thought much of it before.
— from The Great War of 189-: A Forecast by Frank Scudamore