Thanks to the image, not even newsies pushed a Ranger too hard, and nobody else pushed at all.
— from Fearful Symmetry: A Terran Empire novel by Ann Wilson

He marched against them with the few troops which he could assemble on a sudden; and giving them battle, gained at first an advantage, but by his pursuing the victory too far, the superiority of the enemys numbers prevailed, and recovered them the day.
— from The History of England, Volume I From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 by David Hume

As little by little we gained higher and higher eminence the view broadened, and ever new peaks and ridges thrust themselves into view.
— from The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America by Hudson Stuck

They have 116 explained by it too, the promptness with which sweat is produced by warm liquors, &c. All these theories, that examination never proves, are repugnant to the known laws of our economy, laws which show us the fluids constantly circulating in the vessels, in consequence of the vital forces, of organic sensibility and contractility which they possess, and not as being extravasated to move irregularly in the cellular texture.
— from General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Xavier Bichat

That every nation possessed a right to govern itself according to its own will, to change its institutions at discretion, and to transact its business through whatever agents it might think proper, were stated to Mr. Morris to be principles on which the American government itself was founded, and the application of which could be denied to no other people.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

Besides these mutual janglings amongst the governors, the whole body of the people were extremely dissatisfied, they being fully persuaded that the affairs of Spain for many years before had been managed by the influence of a particular foreign interest, which was altogether detached from the advantages of the Spanish nation: so that the inhabitants of these distant provinces believed themselves to be sacrificed to an ambition which never considered their convenience or emoluments nor paid any regard to the reputation of their name or the honour of their country.
— from A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV by Anson, George Anson, Baron

29th.—No particular occurrence has taken place since the fête; a visit from the new Secretary of Legation and the Attache, a diplomatic dinner at the ——- Minister's, much going and coming and writing on the subject of a house in Mexico, a correspondence concerning the sale of our furniture, mules, etc., etc., a good deal of interest excited by a bet between two English gentlemen, as to whether it were possible for one of them to ride from Mexico to San Angel in twenty minutes, which feat he performed, starting from the gate called " El Niño Perdido ," and reaching the old church of San Angel within the given time; these I think are the most remarkable circumstances that have taken place.
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca

Schulmeister accordingly disappeared from Paris, selling his estate near Paris and retiring to his splendid property at Meinau, where his popularity with the Alsatians was so great as to justify the belief that the spy was generously endowed with many qualities other than those which had led him to adopt the trade of espionage.
— from Spies and Secret Service The story of espionage, its main systems and chief exponents by Hamil Grant

Following the example set in Edward VI.’s reign, Sir Philip Sydney engaged two Italian experts named Prospero and Romano, to teach riding; the Earl of Leicester, the Queen’s Master of the Horse, also had among his suite an Italian horseman, named Claudio Corte, who wrote a book on the art of riding, which was published in London, in 1584.
— from Horses Past and Present by Gilbey, Walter, Sir