Books like the Upanishads of the Vedic seers, and the Bhagavat Gita, though garbled and obscured by priestly interferences and mystifications, do undoubtedly represent and give expression to the highest utterance of religious experience to be found anywhere in the world.
— from Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning by Edward Carpenter

Saziu già di la straggi lu cuteddu Apri niscennu, spaziusa strata A lu sangu, ed a l’ anima purcina; L’ unu cadennu dintra lu tineddu, Prometti sangunazzi; e l’ autra scappa, [Pg 228] E si disperdi in aria tra li venti, O com’ è fama, passa ad abitari Dintru lu corpu di un riccuni avaru, Giacchì nun potti in terra ritruvari Chiù vili e schiufusu munnizzaru.
— from A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla by Leigh Hunt

In the beginning of the tenth century, the Scotch king, Constantine the Third, in conjunction with the more northern Anglo-Saxons, beat the Danes, who had passed over from Dublin under Reginald and Godfrey O’Ivar (Godfred Ivarsön), in a great battle near the Clyde.
— from An Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland by Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae

After the horrible massacre at Fort William Henry, the British colonists determined upon revenge, and General James Abercrombie, who had been made the 286 Commander-in-Chief of all the British forces in North America through political influence, gathered an army of nearly sixteen thousand men at the head of the lake, while Montcalm was at Carillon with barely one-fourth the number.
— from America, Volume 4 (of 6) by Joel Cook

The cavalryman drew up, recognized a German soldier dismounted, believed that he was wounded, leaped down from his horse, drew near the prostrate man, never suspecting anything, and, as he stooped over the stranger, he received in the middle of the stomach the long, curved blade of the saber.
— from Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant

Sir Samuel Hood reached Sandy Hook on the 28th of August, when the command devolving upon Rear Admiral Greaves, he put to sea on the 31st with 19 sail of the line, the day after De Grasse had anchored in the Chesapeak with 28.
— from An Historical Review of the Royal Marine Corps, from its Original Institution down to the Present Era, 1803 by Gillespie, Alexander, Major

An assembly thus composed could very well draw up reports and give advice on questions in which it possesses special competence.
— from The New German Constitution by René Brunet

Thus fell a renowned Gordon, one whose character at present I am in no capacity to describe: only, I may venture to say, that he was a gentleman of good parts and endowments; a man devoted unto religion and godliness; and a prime supporter of the Presbyterian interest in that part of the country wherein he lived.—The Gordons have all along made no small figure in our Scottish history;—but here was a patriot, a good Christian, a confessor
— from Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie