Each armed inhabitant knows the smallest paths and their connections; he finds everywhere a relative or friend who aids him; the commanders also know the country, and, learning immediately the slightest movement on the part of the invader, can adopt the best measures to defeat his projects; while the latter, without information of their movements, and not in a condition to send out detachments to gain it, having no resource but in his bayonets, and certain safety only in the concentration of his columns, is like a blind man: his combinations are failures; and when, after the most carefully-concerted movements and the most rapid and fatiguing marches, he thinks he is about to accomplish his aim and deal a terrible blow, he finds no signs of the enemy but his camp-fires: so that while, like Don Quixote, he is attacking windmills, his adversary is on his line of communications, destroys the detachments left to guard it, surprises his convoys, his depots, and carries on a war so disastrous for the invader that he must inevitably yield after a time.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Three ideas which have been criticized, namely, the merely privative nature of immaturity, static adjustment to a fixed environment, and rigidity of habit, are all connected with a false idea of growth or development,—that it is a movement toward a fixed goal.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

In the first example, “a relative of John’s” means “a relative of (= from among ) John’s relatives.”
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

But it is just in that cold, abominable half despair, half belief, in that conscious burying oneself alive for grief in the underworld for forty years, in that acutely recognised and yet partly doubtful hopelessness of one's position, in that hell of unsatisfied desires turned inward, in that fever of oscillations, of resolutions determined for ever and repented of again a minute later--that the savour of that strange enjoyment of which I have spoken lies.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If we abstract from all chemical differences in matter, or go so far back in the chain of causes and effects that as yet there is no chemical difference, there remains mere matter,—the world rounded to a globe, whose life, i.e. , objectification of will, is now constituted by the conflict between attractive and repulsive forces, the former as gravitation pressing from all sides towards the centre, the latter as impenetrability always opposing the former either as rigidity or elasticity; and this constant pressure and resistance may be regarded as the objectivity of will in its very lowest grade, and even there it expresses its character.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

It would be a mistake, however, to omit to mention, with fitting emphasis, another result of these investigations.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

He presently found ease, and, recovering of his sickness, lived a long time after; and, being entirely converted to God in heart and deed, wherever he went, he spoke of the goodness of his merciful Creator, and the honour of His faithful servant.” Chap.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens: Virgil, like the same power in his benevolence, counselling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and regularly ordering his whole creation.
— from The Iliad by Homer

But however I have named the judgments and opinions of perturbations, their meaning is, not that merely the perturbations consist in them, but that the effects likewise of these perturbations do so; as grief occasions a kind of painful pricking, and fear engenders a recoil or sudden abandonment of the mind, joy gives rise to a profuse mirth, while lust is the parent of an unbridled habit of coveting.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

But it is just in that cold, abominable half despair, half belief, in that conscious burying oneself alive for grief in the underworld for forty years, in that acutely recognized and yet partly doubtful hopelessness of one's position, in that hell of unsatisfied desires turned inward, in that fever of oscillations, of resolutions determined for ever and repented of again a minute later—that the savour of that strange enjoyment of which I have spoken lies.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What's this?" His foot encountered a raised object.
— from The Sea-girt Fortress: A Story of Heligoland by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

The ladies were very old friends, and they had not met since Isabel's return from Europe and renewal of her engagement.
— from Their Wedding Journey by William Dean Howells

Lord Falmouth had a taste of Mr. Cobbett’s lash, as a reward for his temerity; and Cobbett concluded his paper thus:— [279] “I have been lecturing on politics—I have been maintaining my Manchester propositions , in every great town in the north, as far as the northern confines of Yorkshire, with the exception, I believe, of Liverpool and Bradford; and I have everywhere maintained that, unless those propositions be acted upon to the full extent, a reform of the Parliament will be a delusion and a mockery.
— from William Cobbett: A Biography in Two Volumes, Vol. 2 by Edward Smith

The friends of king James had, upon the death of queen Mary, renewed their practices for effecting a restoration of that monarch, on the supposition that the interest of William was considerably weakened by the decease of his consort.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

In the course of an hour or so Fred uttered a fierce exclamation, and rose on his hands and knees.
— from Chasing the Sun by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Rosie could not resist stating this fact even at risk of hurting her mother's feelings.
— from The Rosie World by Parker Fillmore

The Executive Department of the Government shall prepare a budget setting forth expenditures and receipts of the Nation for the fiscal year which shall be submitted to the House of Representatives within 15 days after the opening of the session of the National Assembly.
— from The Fight for the Republic in China by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

But Mrs. Harland is free from even a rag of national prejudice.
— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 6, March, 1885 by Various

Montague, Earl of Salisbury, had just brought over from England a reinforcement of 6,000 men.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses by Anonymous