(1) Put metal dust or filings, fine sand, ground glass, emery dust (get it by pounding up an emery knife sharpener) and similar hard, gritty substances directly into lubrication systems.
— from Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services

Its river Nile is navigable as far as the city called Elephantine, the forenamed cataracts hindering ships from going any farther, The haven also of Alexandria is not entered by the mariners without difficulty, even in times of peace; for the passage inward is narrow, and full of rocks that lie under the water, which oblige the mariners to turn from a straight direction: its left side is blocked up by works made by men's hands on both sides; on its right side lies the island called Pharus, which is situated just before the entrance, and supports a very great tower, that affords the sight of a fire to such as sail within three hundred furlongs of it, that ships may cast anchor a great way off in the night time, by reason of the difficulty of sailing nearer.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

I know myself, nor did I learn so much of myself what while I sojourned at Paris as thou taughtest me in one single night of thine.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Though you lost sight of me, never did I lose sight of you!
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Sound , one of the divisions of Latin Grammar, treated, 1 , 16-179 ; change of, in vowels, 55-113 ; change of, in diphthongs, 80-88 ; change of, in consonants, 114-154 ; see Substitution , Development , Disappearance , Assimilation , Dissimilation , Interchange , Lengthening , Shortening , Weakening , Hiatus , Contraction , Elision , Affinities , Pronunciation , Accent , Quantity .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Dear me, that detail is lost sight of , is not even referred to, the fact that it started out as a motive is entirely forgotten!
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

My doctrine is: Live so that thou mayest desire to live again,—that is thy duty,—for in any case thou wilt live again He unto whom striving is the greatest happiness, let him strive; he unto whom peace is the greatest happiness, let him rest; he unto whom subordination, following, obedience, is the greatest happiness, let him obey.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

DIFFICULTIES IN LIFE Sometime success, sometimes failures, In life’s battle we often meet; But its our duty to keep on climbing, Whether a victory or defeat.
— from Poems by Jamie Harris Coleman

I will not do it--I cannot do it-- [ Looking still for the pistol-case. ]
— from Magda: A Play in Four Acts by Hermann Sudermann

There can be little doubt that it is susceptible of navigation above and below by the largest class of river steamers, and that the rapids themselves may in the higher stages of water be ascended by the American high-pressure steamers which navigate our Western rivers, drawing, as they do in low stages of the Ohio and Missouri, but sixteen to eighteen inches.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

“ This New Life, as through my love of Dante I like sometimes to call it, is of course no new life at all, but simply the continuance, by means of development, and evolution, of my former life.
— from The Trial of Oscar Wilde, from the Shorthand Reports by Charles Grolleau