Or suppose he comes from reading a Greek or Latin classic in the original, whose praises are familiar even to the so-called illiterate; he will find nobody at all to speak to, but must keep silence about it.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Leaving out these exceptional cases, good habits of order, good logistical precautions for rallying, and good discipline will most frequently be successful, if not in preventing disorder, at least in promptly remedying it.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

He thought that it would be too late in the day to begin the fight by the time his forces could be ready; for his fleet required a great deal of room at sea, and there was a long distance between the foremost of his ships and the hindmost, and between those outside and those nearest the land, and there was but little wind.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Ne forçons point notre talent; / Nous ne ferions rien avec grâce —Let us not force our faculty; we shall in that case do nothing to good effect.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

we came too for refreshment and gave the men a dram which they received with much cheerfullness, and well deserved.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

tit , tite = titt tītelian to indicate by a written mark, entitle, ascribe , Æ. [ L. titulus] tītelung f. ‘ recapitulatio ,’ a giving of titles or headings , OEG 1153. titolose ‘ tidulosa ’ ( plant ), OEG 56 425 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Anna went backward and forward, ran about giving orders and hurrying on the wedding feast.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

AN EGOTISTICAL "FIND" "I have found the law of my own poems," was the unspoken but more-and-more decided feeling that came to me as I pass'd, hour after hour, amid all this grim yet joyous elemental abandon—this plenitude of material, entire absence of art, untrammel'd play of primitive Nature—the chasm, the gorge, the crystal mountain stream, repeated scores, hundreds of miles—the broad handling and absolute uncrampedness—the fantastic forms, bathed in transparent browns, faint reds and grays, towering sometimes a thousand, sometimes two or three thousand feet high—at their tops now and then huge masses pois'd, and mixing with the clouds, with only their outlines, hazed in misty lilac, visible.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

None that I remember possessed even a portion of that fine madness which he threw out in Hotspur's famous rant about glory, or the transports of the Venetian incendiary at the vision of the fired city.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

When Napier faced round again, Greta was smiling gently on the melted inspector.
— from The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins

He had become acquainted with it, it is most likely, in the writings of Fergusson, Ramsay, and Gilbertfield, who had used it chiefly for comic subjects; but Burns showed that, in his hands at least, it could be made the vehicle of the most pensive and tender feeling.
— from Robert Burns by Gabriel Setoun

Marco, the young Roumanian painter, was in love with Fay Roberts, a gifted American girl from up-State, who had made Greenwich Village her abode.
— from Dust of New York by Konrad Bercovici

To jump into the funicular railway and go back to the Corbières was for me the work of a few minutes.
— from Their Majesties as I Knew Them Personal Reminiscences of the Kings and Queens of Europe by Xavier Paoli

Between the Junior League and their conscientious instruction, Jack was pretty firmly "rooted and grounded" in the faith of his fathers.
— from In League with Israel: A Tale of the Chattanooga Conference by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

This created a vast sensation, and though anonymous, like most of Swift's works, was soon known to be his, and his society was eagerly sought by men of the highest distinction both for rank and genius.
— from Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 1 (of 2) by William Howitt

Along the whole of this front runs a gallery, in which the piper used to stalk to and fro while they were at dinner.
— from Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 2 (of 2) by William Howitt

In the vaults and caverns which stretch below the rock a vast funeral pyre was built, and to it came the Rajput women singing, dressed in their festal robes, and glittering in all their jewels.
— from Peeps at Many Lands—India by John Finnemore

Without answering she took the cloak from Rawlins, and gave the detective and the district attorney the opportunity they craved.
— from The Abandoned Room by Wadsworth Camp