Mei Yao-ch`en offers another equally plausible explanation: "Supposing the enemy has not yet reached the coveted position, and we are behind him, we should advance with all speed in order to dispute its possession." Ch`en Hao, on the other hand, assuming that the enemy has had time to select his own ground, quotes VI.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

The steam-way on the left is now in communication with the exhaust port E , so that the steam that has done its duty is released and pressed from the cylinder by the piston.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

This notable plan for enriching them and ourselves by making each pay enormous sums to the other, dropping the greatest part by the way, has been for some time abandoned.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

And for which [6415] Austin cites Varro to maintain his Roman religion, we may better apply to them: multa vera, quae vulgus scire non est utile; pleraque falsa, quae tamen uliter existimare populum expedit ; some things are true, some false, which for their own ends they will not have the gullish commonalty take notice of.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Every page, every paragraph, every sentence, throbs with his own being.
— from Essays Æsthetical by George Henry Calvert

Snout-vent length more than 30 mm.; tympanum 2 / 3 to ¾ diameter of eye; prevomerine elevations about size of choanae 4 Snout-vent length less than 30 mm.; tympanum less than ½ diameter of eye; prevomerine elevations smaller than choanae 5 4.
— from The Systematics of the Frogs of the Hyla Rubra Group in Middle America by Juan R. León

Miss Payne she had known more or less for a considerable time, and regarded as a worthy, useful woman; while her third guest was the only child of the wealthy publisher George Bradley, the owner of that new and flourishing publication, The Piccadilly Review , wherein those brilliant articles on "Our Colonial System," "Modern European Politics," etc., supposed to be from the pen of Miles Errington, appeared.
— from A Crooked Path: A Novel by Mrs. Alexander

" As a sweeping refutation of the fantastic statements regarding "garceros," published by Mr. Downham as coming from Messrs. Laglaize, Grisol and Geay, I offer the written testimony of an American gentleman who at this moment owns and maintains within a few yards of his residence a large preserve of snowy egrets and herons, the former representing the species which furnishes egret plumes exactly similar to those shipped from Venezuela and Brazil.
— from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

On the other hand, high roads of great excellence, and bold bridges with magnificent arches, were constructed, for 238 everywhere the spirit of practical realism was served; in every stone, every column, every pillar, every statue, the spirit of theocratic despotism predominated.
— from A Manual of the Historical Development of Art Pre-Historic—Ancient—Classic—Early Christian; with Special Reference to Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, and Ornamentation by G. G. (Gustavus George) Zerffi

During these few instants, while they exchanged a silent pledge of renewed friendship, Bernard’s elastic perception embraced several things besides the consciousness of his own pleasure.
— from Confidence by Henry James

And now, tired of finding the ill-success of each particular enquiry, she thought a more general one might obtain an answer less laconic, and therefore begged she would inform her what was the most fashionable place of diversion for the present season?
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney