The enemy made brave and strenuous efforts to drive our troops from the position we had gained, but without success.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

This has been, if we may be allowed the expression, mesmerized by a soul, earnest, pure and sincere; and thus, with the clear perception and dauntless will of the North has she interpreted the familiar musical dramas in a new, vivid, and original manner.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1, July 1850 by Various

This change in a geometrical progression is characteristic of simple radio-active processes, and can be expressed mathematically by a simple exponential formula.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

Certainly, at that moment, I should have been easily moved by a suppliant enemy.
— from Military Career of Napoleon the Great An Account of the Remarkable Campaigns of the "Man of Destiny"; Authentic Anecdotes of the Battlefield as Told by the Famous Marshals and Generals of the First Empire by Montgomery B. Gibbs

This is a case in which a large endeavor may be a small endeavor, and a small endeavor a large one; or, in which it may be well to take the advice of Virgil, who advised Roman vineyardists, "Praise great estates; farm a small one."
— from Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

Certainly at that moment I should have been easily moved by a suppliant enemy; I could very well imagine Achilles surrendering up the body of Hector at the sight of Priam's tears."
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II. by Walter Scott

So susceptible is her very nature to the finest touches of religious feeling, that every revival of the pure spirit of devotion has always found her prepared to adapt herself to new spiritual demands, and out of apparent decline to develop forms of religious expression more beautiful and sublime even than the old.
— from Music in the History of the Western Church With an Introduction on Religious Music Among Primitive and Ancient Peoples by Edward Dickinson

Emmett is a dim. of Emma, but Empson may be a shortened Emerson from Emery (Chapter VIII).
— from The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley

The plural of this word is often used as if it meant bad odors; whereas an “effluvium” may be a stream either of pure air or of foul air,—of pure water or of impure, etc.
— from Words; Their Use and Abuse by William Mathews