A grant of L10,000 was voted to Nelson by the East India Company; the Turkish Company presented him with a piece of plate; the City of London presented a sword to him, and to each of his captains; gold medals were distributed to the captains; and the first lieutenants of all the ships were promoted, as had been done after Lord Howe's victory.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

The private letter from the Admiralty to Nelson informed him that the first lieutenants of all the ships ENGAGED were to be promoted.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

They lived in the same home, shared in the family life, often attended the same church, and talked and conversed with each other.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

I used to make Magny, after his losses, give me a friendly letter of acknowledgment to some such effect as this,— ‘MY DEAR MONSIEUR DE BALIBARI,—I acknowledge to have lost to you this day at lansquenet
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

The air was electric, setting the blood tingling, and, as the sleigh slipped along down the winding road that led to the river, Scotty churned up and down on the seat and could with difficulty restrain himself from leaping out and turning somersaults in the snow.
— from The Silver Maple by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor

Had such men held the opposite doctrine, and admitted, yea, and insisted, as it was their duty to do, that every question in morals and politics is a legitimate subject of free discussion--the District of Columbia would be far less objectionable, as the seat of our Government.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

In the garden the air was still and summer-warm and fragrant; on the creek the moonlight lay like a solid floor of silver; the trees stood dreaming to the stars; and as the music floated loud out across the silent lawn, Ethne had a sudden fancy that it might perhaps travel down the creek and over Salcombe Bar and across the moonlit seas, and strike small yet wonderfully clear like fairy music upon the ears of a man sleeping somewhere far away beneath the brightness of the southern stars with the cool night wind of the desert blowing upon his face.
— from The Four Feathers by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

The front line of a trench system is generally lightly held; a surprise attack by determined troops can almost rely on being successful if the element of surprise is availed of.
— from New Zealanders at Gallipoli by Fred Waite

of the finished leather, or about the same as that given by bark, may be obtained.
— from A Text-book of Tanning A treatise on the conversion of skins into leather, both practical and theoretical. by H. R. (Henry Richardson) Procter

Since his advent spiritual titillation had been discovered in candles, attitudes, novel genuflexions and defiance of the Bishop, a wary old gentleman, who was resolved to evade making a martyr of Father Cameril, being, from long observation, assured that sporadic sputterings of ultra-ritualism were apt to flicker and die if not fanned by opposition.
— from Mr. Claghorn's Daughter by Hilary Trent

A grant of £10,000 was voted to Nelson by the East India Company; the Turkish Company presented him with a piece of plate; the city of London presented a sword to him and to each of his captains; gold medals were distributed to the captains; and the first lieutenants of all the ships were promoted, as had been done after Lord Howe's victory.
— from Fifty-two Stories of the British Navy, from Damme to Trafalgar. by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles

Xenophon was banished for Laconism , or attachment to Sparta against his country; the fact of his having served under Cyrus against Artaxerxes counted at best only as a secondary motive.
— from History of Greece, Volume 09 (of 12) by George Grote