He could recall again the furious rage of Napoleon, the almost despair that filled the Emperor's heart, when the news came of the cowardly surrender of the fort at Soissons by its incapable commandant, which rendered useless Napoleon's cunning plans, and all the hard marching and harder fighting of his heroic soldiery.
— from The Eagle of the Empire: A Story of Waterloo by Cyrus Townsend Brady

They demanded fleet bases on Nansal; they demanded an unreasonable rate of exchange between the two powers, one which would be highly favorable to Sator; they wanted to impose fantastic restrictions on Nansalian travel and none whatsoever on their own.
— from Islands of Space by Campbell, John W., Jr. (John Wood)

But what is curious is that this threefold classification, and the consequences to which it leads, should not at once have been fully reasoned out, nay, that a system most palpably erroneous should have been founded upon it.
— from Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

The other famous relic of Nemausus, the Arena, has been mentioned previously in connection with that of Arles.
— from A Tour Through Old Provence by A. S. (Archibald Stevenson) Forrest

Honour, beyond that of a crowned head, was his own, and had the full relish of novelty to a mind which two or three years before was pining in obscurity.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II. by Walter Scott