Upon that they wore a white plume, most prettily and minion-like parted by so many rows of gold spangles, at the end whereof hung dangling in a more sparkling resplendency fair rubies, emeralds, diamonds, &c., but there was such a sympathy betwixt the gallants and the ladies, that every day they were apparelled in the same livery.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

As Mei Yao-ch`en puts it, freely rendered, "ESPIRIT DE CORPS and 'big battalions.'
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

Vesey Dawson, Granville Elliott, Lionel Mackinnon, Murray Cowell, Henry M. Bouverie, Frederick Ramsden, Edward Disbrowe, C. Hubert Greville, with inscription, "Brothers in arms, in glory and in death, they were buried in one grave."
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch by Arthur Dimock

La seule action méritoire de sa vie, disait M. Goldwin Smith du duc d'York, c'est de l'avoir une fois risquée en duel.... C'était maigre, pour un prince du sang, et pour un simple particulier aussi bien.
— from Collections and Recollections by George William Erskine Russell

At the beginning of the French Revolution evil days came upon Riesener.
— from The Mentor: Furniture and its Makers, Vol. 1, Num. 30, Serial No. 30 by Charles R. (Charles Russell) Richards

A state which was losing men at a frightful rate every day could not be expected to view this increase in population with alarm.
— from The Iron Ration: Three Years in Warring Central Europe by George Abel Schreiner

Thus flushed, the conqueror, with force renewed, Evagrus, Dryas, Corythus, pursued.
— from The Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes; Vol. 12 (of 18) by John Dryden