A Dutch writer of that time, estimating the chances of his country in a war with England, notices among other things that the water-ways of England failed to penetrate the country sufficiently; therefore, the roads being bad, goods from one part of the kingdom to the other must go by sea, and be exposed to capture by the way.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

This reversing of the charges is by no means an uncommon practice in Germany for other purposes.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

While reading himself this moral lesson, for there were occasions on which Marius, like all truly honest hearts, was his own pedagogue and scolded himself more than he deserved, he stared at the wall which separated him from the Jondrettes, as though he were able to make his gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched people.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Every step that he took in going from one piece of furniture to another exhausted him, and he was obliged to sit down.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

One of the representatives of the middle-class present today was a colonel of engineers, a very serious man and a great friend of Prince S., who had introduced him to the Epanchins.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But, it may still be urged, if God wished to bring it about that we should perceive them, he would be obliged to endow us with a greater faculty of perception, but not a greater faculty of volition than we have already.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

I will only tell thee that, either fate being envious of so great a boon placed in my hands by good fortune, or perhaps (and this is more probable) this castle being, as I have already said, enchanted, at the time when I was engaged in the sweetest and most amorous discourse with her, there came, without my seeing or knowing whence it came, a hand attached to some arm of some huge giant, that planted such a cuff on my jaws that I have them all bathed in blood, and then pummelled me in such a way that I am in a worse plight than yesterday when the carriers, on account of Rocinante's misbehaviour, inflicted on us the injury thou knowest of; whence conjecture that there must be some enchanted Moor guarding the treasure of this damsel's beauty, and that it is not for me."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

But think it not, good father: Our purposes were honest. SUB.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

The latter after his banishment became a great friend of Ptolemy at Alexandria, and not only passed his days in abundance, but also sent gifts to the Athenians.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

The words underneath the verses were, "This stage was built to punish such upon, who, through timorousness or mistrust, shall be afraid to go farther on pilgrimage.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

11.—Gamopetalous flower of Papaver bracteatum .
— from Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden) Masters

And general prices would fall; to the benefit of those who have fixed sums to receive; to the disadvantage of those who have fixed sums to pay; and giving rise, as a general fall of prices always does, to an appearance, though a temporary and fallacious one, of general distress [5] .
— from Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill

The jail on the left, the court-house in the center, and the church on the right were erected upon the foundations of those that were burned by the British in 1779, and in the same style of architecture.. Such being the fact, the Green, from our point of view, doubtless has the same general aspect that it presented before the marauder desolated it.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

About 150 men, constantly going from one place to another in [Pg 58] their departments, made us feel we were not alone.
— from Sixty Years of California Song by Margaret Blake Alverson

Then the other ship must have had a fourth set for its own take-off, or it would be grounded forever on Procyron III.
— from A Matter of Importance by Murray Leinster

Around us roared the great fire of poverty.
— from A Man's World by Albert Edwards

Let us rather thank God for our present good health.
— from Luke Walton by Alger, Horatio, Jr.