-----------------------------002.png---------------------------- -----------------------------003.png---------------------------- A COMPLETE GRAMMAR OF ESPERANTO THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE WITH GRADED EXERCISES FOR READING AND TRANSLATION TOGETHER WITH FULL VOCABULARIES BY IVY KELLERMAN, A.M., Ph.D. MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND CHAIRMAN OF EXAMINATIONS FOR THE ESPERANTO ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA, MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL LINGVA
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

In the next thirty-two rows we diminish one in every fourth row, by knitting two together at the back, while at the same time in every fourth row, at the back, we knit two together, and make one in order to form a series of holes, or pattern parallel to that on the other side caused by enlarging in every fourth row.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

We then knit one hundred and twelve rows, having each ten knitted stitches in the front of the habit-shirt, as on the opposite side, and six at the back, and decreasing one in every fourth row, at the back, and continuing the pattern, and also the series of holes at the back.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Under this view alone may the anatomist plead an excuse for reiterating a theme which the beautiful works of Cowper, Haller, Hunter, Scarpa, Soemmering, and others, have dealt out so respectably.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

The river sparkled in the sun, and they had a feeling of quiet enjoyment, felt refreshed as they drank in the purer air that was not impregnated by the black smoke of factories nor by the miasma from the deposits of night soil.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

They had met, as usual, to breakfast together in the little house with Jude's name on it, that he had taken at fifteen pounds a year, with three-pounds-ten extra for rates and taxes, and furnished with his aunt's ancient and lumbering goods, which had cost him about their full value to bring all the way from Marygreen.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Yet, though the latter was a perfectly innocent victim, Miss Briggs could not disguise from her friend her fear that Miss Crawley's affections were hopelessly estranged from Rebecca, and that the old lady would never forgive her nephew for making so imprudent a marriage.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Then, when these spies are captured in the enemy's lines, they will make an entirely false report, and the enemy will take measures accordingly, only to find that we do something quite different.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

The celestial image of the Virgin had been exposed in solemn procession; but their divine patroness was deaf to their entreaties: they accused the obstinacy of the emperor for refusing a timely surrender; anticipated the horrors of their fate; and sighed for the repose and security of Turkish servitude.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

—We should not turn the mind from one thing to another, except for relaxation, and that when it is necessary [Pg 8] and the time suitable, and not otherwise.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

As soon as the start had been fairly made Ensign Fullerton reported at the cabin of the young commanding officer.
— from The Submarine Boys for the Flag Deeding Their Lives to Uncle Sam by Victor G. Durham

Under these circumstances it was not to be supposed that Adam's arguments proved very effective: no proposition he made was ever favorably received, and this one was more than usually unpopular.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various

He even formally retracted all that he had written at the dictation of the council; and, by an express bull, Pius II.
— from The Project Gutenberg Collection of Works by Freethinkers With Linked On-line and Off-line Indexes to 157 Volumes by 90 Authors; Plus Indexes to 15 other Author's Multi-Volume Sets. by Various

The Rhodian admiral Pausistratus, lulled into security by the representations of his countryman that he wished to desert from Antiochus, had allowed himself to be surprised in the harbour of Samos; he himself fell, and all his vessels were destroyed except five Rhodian and two Coan ships; Samos, Phocaea, and Cyme on hearing the news went over to Seleucus, who held the chief command by land in those provinces for his father.
— from The History of Rome, Book III From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States by Theodor Mommsen

He was easily fatigued, refused at times to respond, said he had been forbidden to reply, said he would be whipped if he did.
— from Pathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forensic Psychology by Mary Tenney Healy

A consideration of the difficulties that vehicles of all sorts had to contend with in the battle areas of Europe made it evident at the outset that two general types of motor carriers would be required by the Army so far as ordnance was concerned—one type for far-advanced work, for hauling artillery over the worst possible kind of shell-torn and water-soaked earth, and the other for bringing up ammunition, supplies, equipment for repairs and the like in less advanced zones and areas, but over roads and country that had been cut and hacked and made almost impassible by the activities of the contending forces.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell

If the Rhine frontier, which every French regarded as the natural boundary of the empire, could be regained by the arms of the nation, discontent and opposition would vanish, the name of Napoleon would win back its old prestige, and the reign of Bonapartism would be firmly established.
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris

With much to make him sad and angry, he was neither sad nor angry enough for retaliation as that.
— from No Quarter! by Mayne Reid