On November 29, 1813, the Georgia army under General Floyd, consisting of nine hundred and fifty American troops and four hundred friendly Indians, chiefly Lower Creeks under McIntosh, took and destroyed Autossee town on the Tallapoosa, west of the present Tuskegee, killing about two hundred warriors and burning four hundred well-built houses.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

A writer of the sixteenth century speaks of “Midsommer pageants in London, where to make the people wonder, are set forth great and uglie gyants marching as if they were alive, and armed at all points, but within they are stuffed full of browne paper and tow, which the shrewd boyes, underpeering, do guilefully discover, and turne to a greate derision.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The gain of a battle before Landrecies opened its gates; and upon General Chapuis was found a plan of the diversion in Flanders: only twelve battalions were sent to Clairfayt.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

And this I must observe, with grief, too, that the discomposure of my mind had great impression also upon the religious part of my thoughts; for the dread and terror of falling into the hands of savages and cannibals lay so upon my spirits, that I seldom found myself in a due temper for application to my Maker; at least, not with the sedate calmness and resignation of soul which I was wont to do: I rather prayed to God as under great affliction and pressure of mind, surrounded with danger, and in expectation every night of being murdered and devoured before morning; and I must testify, from my experience, that a temper of peace, thankfulness, love, and affection, is much the more proper frame for prayer than that of terror and discomposure: and that under the dread of mischief impending, a man is no more fit for a comforting performance of the duty of praying to God than he is for a repentance on a sick-bed; for these discomposures affect the mind, as the others do the body; and the discomposure of the mind must necessarily be as great a disability as that of the body, and much greater; praying to God being properly an act of the mind, not of the body.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The Good and Ultimate Good ), 106 Hobbes, 44 note 1, 56 , 86 , 89 , 103 , 109 , 300 note 1, 423 , 476 ; ( Leviathan ) 89 note 1 Holmes, O. W., jun., The Common Law , 281 note 1 Honour, Code of, 30 , 31 , 168 , 340 Hume, 23 , 86 , 104 , 220 , 384 , 419 , 423 , 424 , 423 notes 1 and 2, 426 , 440 , 441 , 493 ; ( Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals ) 44 note 2, 220 note 2, 424 Humility, 334-336 passim , 355 , 356 note 1, 429 Hunger, 45 , 46 Hutcheson, 44 note 2, 50 , 86 , 86 note 2, 104 , 366 ; ( System of Moral Philosophy )
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Means thereto : he alone is cultured; he alone is the man of virtue ; he alone has sovereign power over himself : he alone is, in a certain sense, God, and ultimately goes back to the Godhead; he alone is the middleman between God and others ; the Godhead administers punishment to every one who puts the priest at a disadvantage, or who thinks in opposition to him.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Our Eugène, you see, is worthy of his father; and I trust you do not think me an unworthy successor of the great and unfortunate general, under whom 1 should have been proud to learn to conquer.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

fine Indian cloth; fine linen; in N.T., a linen garment, an upper garment or wrapper of fine linen, worn in summer by night, and used to envelope dead bodies, Mat. 27.59.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

full , plênus, -a, -um G Galba , Galba, -ae, m. garland , corôna, -ae, f. garrison , praesidium, praesi´dî, n. gate , porta, -ae, f. Gaul , Gallia, -ae, f. Gaul ( a ), Gallus, -î, m. general , imperâtor, -ôris, m. Geneva , Genâva, -ae, f. gentle , lênis, -e German , Germânus, -a, -um Germans ( the ), Germânî, -ôrum, m. plur .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

And I am not sure that, in spite of Rebecca's simplicity and activity, and gentleness and untiring good humour, the shrewd old London lady, upon whom these treasures of friendship were lavished, had not a lurking suspicion all the while of her affectionate nurse and friend.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

He was never tedious, and an inexhaustible humour, a classic simplicity, an exquisite grace, and uniform good sense and taste informed and gave permanent interest to everything he wrote.
— from Franklin: A Sketch by John Bigelow

The Gault and Upper Greensand 37 VII.
— from The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight by J. Cecil (John Cecil) Hughes

"Costly and gaudy attire, unbecoming godliness."— Extracts , p. 185.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

It is a lamentable thing lamentévole cosa to see some men of great abilities uómo gràn talénto prone to wickedness.
— from Exercises upon the Different Parts of Italian Speech, with References to Veneroni's Grammar to which is added an abridgement of the Roman history, intended at once to make the learner acquainted with history, and the idiom of the Italian language by Ferdinando Bottarelli

We were a happy, noisy gang, and undoubtedly gave poor Mrs. Leete a great deal of trouble.
— from A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

Coupeau argued with her vehemently and then gave an uneasy glance at the clock.
— from L'Assommoir by Émile Zola

Watson was now sitting with legs crossed, in tailor fashion; on his lap was George; and upon George’s knee jumped Waggie.
— from Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War by Edward Robins

She was a beautiful girl, an uncommon girl.
— from The Portion of Labor by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman