When the entire combination of the body is dissolved, then the soul too is dissolved, and ceases to retain those faculties which were previously inherent in it, and especially the power of motion; so that sensation perishes equally as far as the soul is concerned; for it is impossible to imagine that it still feels, from the moment when it is no longer in the same conditions of existence, and no longer possesses the same movements of existence in reference to the same organic system; from the moment, in short, when the things which cover and surround it are no longer such, that it retains in them the same movements as before.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

He conceived that he had done his full duty as commander in that engagement; and I can bear testimony, from personal observation, that he had proved himself fully equal to all the lower positions which he had occupied as a soldier.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

A man bent nearly double, and out of breath, stood there, ten-yards from them, dragging a cow at the end of a rope.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

"They on their way stopped," he says "a couple of days at Cadaraghqui Fort, also at Taranto on the north side of Lake Ontario; then at Niagara fifteen days."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Night, but not day dreams, are considered as omens for good or evil.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

But as I went on my way to the city, I felt so lost and lonesome, that I could have found it in my heart to sit down by the dyke, and cry and weep like any baby.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

"On the last day of June 1667 (says Mr. W. Brenchley Rye in his pleasant Visits to Rochester ), Mr. Samuel Pepys, after examining the defences at Chatham shortly after the disastrous expedition by the Dutch up the Medway, walked into Rochester Cathedral, but he had no mind to stay to the service, . . .
— from A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land Together with Personal Reminiscences of the 'Inimitable Boz' Therein Collected by William R. (William Richard) Hughes

Drill and discipline are complementary to each other.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Deposition to Eberswalde Volume 4, Part 1 by Various

Warning her not to be startled by her ugliness, he went to the door and called her.
— from The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald

Occasionally, when she was giving an "At Home," or a dinner, Annesley consulted Knight.
— from The Second Latchkey by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Pressed against her knee stood the dirtiest and chubbiest four-year-old child on the borders of Brevoort Lake—perhaps the dirtiest on the north shore of Michigan.
— from The Cursed Patois From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

On March 17th., 1813, York's corps entered Berlin, and from this time on contagious typhus disappeared almost completely in this army division.
— from Napoleon's Campaign in Russia, Anno 1812; Medico-Historical by Achilles Rose

So the two girls solemnly mounted the stairs backwards, undressed in the dark, and crept into bed.
— from The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

His children were John, who died at Lyndhurst, in the year 1800; Thomas Oliver, who died in England in 1807; Elizabeth; Robert Oliver, who became a member of the Council of Jamaica, and died at Abington Hall, in that island in 1827; a second Elizabeth, who married a Mr. Lemaistre and died at Cheltenham, in 1856; Leonard and Mary, who alone was born in England, who married Mr. Archer, and who with her only child, deceased, at Clifton, in 1806.
— from The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution by James Henry Stark

Soon after the defeat and capture of his father he joined the American troops and served under General Horry.
— from An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean