What we but just now proposed to ourselves we immediately alter, and presently return again to it; ‘tis nothing but shifting and inconsistency: “Ducimur, ut nervis alienis mobile lignum.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

As touching our other affairs, I assure you there can be no more done, nor more diligence used, nor all manner of dangers better both foreseen and provided for, so [Pg xlii] that I trust it shall be hereafter to both our comforts, the specialities whereof were both too long to be written, and hardly by messenger to be declared.
— from The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes by King of England Henry VIII

Much depends upon necessity, and more upon practice.
— from Gorillas & Chimpanzees by R. L. (Richard Lynch) Garner

" There was a smile come upon his face as I spoke, and he looked down upon Nathaniel and me, who were wedged among that throng which watched the apprentices quarrel, until we were like to be squeezed flat, and said in what I took to be a friendly tone: "So, my master, you would journey into Virginia with the hope of making yourself rich, and you not out from under your mother's apron as yet?
— from Richard of Jamestown : a Story of the Virginia Colony by James Otis

Leaves with short, broad stipules; leaf-blade medium to large, cordate, entire or indistinctly three-lobed; petiolar sinus deep, usually narrow, acute; margin with coarse angular teeth; point of leaf acuminate; upper surface light green, glossy, glabrous; glabrous or sparingly pubescent below.
— from Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

Their commanding fire was poured down upon Ney and Murat's troops, and stopped their victory; it was indispensable to acquire that position.
— from History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de

Add to this, my situation was in other respects very unpleasant; I met many large fish, who were, if I could judge by their open mouths, not only able, but really wished to devour us; now, as my Rosinante was blind, I had these hungry gentlemen's attempts to guard against, in addition to my other difficulties.
— from The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe

After some time the troops on both sides were put in motion, Schomberg still moving by his right, and de Lausun by his left in the same direction, the marsh gradually widening round towards the rear of Donore, until nearly a mile intervened, when an engagement became impracticable, and the Irish left was flanked.
— from The battle-fields of Ireland, from 1688 to 1691 including Limerick and Athlone, Aughrim and the Boyne. Being an outline history of the Jacobite war in Ireland, and the causes which led to it by Boyle, John, active 1867

This is not for me to dwell upon now; any more than I would say much about your murdering of my father.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

He will not desert us now;” and many a time also in sore days of distress, the Apostles may have reminded one another that they were doing their very utmost—not sitting still and praying for help when the sea ran high—at the time when their Master appeared and said: “ Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid. ”
— from Pastor Pastorum; Or, The Schooling of the Apostles by Our Lord by Henry Latham

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— from Letters to His Friends by Forbes Robinson