I opened fire at six thousand metres, and pitched a shell ahead of her and ran up the signal to heave-to.
— from The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne by King-Hall, Stephen, Sir

It is easier for a general up in a balloon, with perfect survey of the field, to manoeuvre a million men to victory than for a sergeant to manage a platoon in a thicket.
— from Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy

Although John Westley's glowing account had prepared her for what she would find at Sunnyside, ten minutes after Penelope Allan had crossed the threshold she could not resist nodding to him, as much as to say: "You were quite right."
— from Highacres by Jane Abbott

By this I mean hard and ugly lines such as the earth never follows, as say, to mention a place known 7 to many, the banks about the head of the lake in the Bois de Boulogne.
— from Garden Design and Architects' Gardens Two reviews, illustrated, to show, by actual examples from British gardens, that clipping and aligning trees to make them 'harmonise' with architecture is barbarous, needless, and inartistic by W. (William) Robinson

On the coast, were the fishermen and skippers, the merchants and planters, with eyes turned toward Europe.
— from The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner

At first he had looked upon these episodes as sweets of matrimony, more blessed than any amount of honeymoon, but now he had gone a stage further and saw them merely as part of the domestic ritual—that very evening when he held Rose and the baby together in his big embrace he knew that in a day or two he would be staling the ceremony by another repetition.
— from Sussex Gorse: The Story of a Fight by Sheila Kaye-Smith

Then follows a slightly tasted meal, a pipe or two succeeds, and content and merriment for another hour or two.
— from The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy by Rajah of Sarawak James

115 “Years and years and years ago the Gods in heaven began to fear that the men of the earth were going to live forever and so they made a plan by which to destroy them.
— from Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens by Margaret W. (Margaret White) Eggleston

"About a hundred feet aft, sir," the man answered, pointing into the blackness that enveloped the steamer.
— from A Voyage with Captain Dynamite by Charles Edward Rich