The Subvention on Land-tax, and much else, one must glide hastily over; safe nowhere but in flourishes of conciliatory eloquence.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

Ivan Fedorovitch would frown, shrug his shoulders, and at last give his opinion: “She needs a husband!”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. 19.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

Of course Osmond’s a gentleman; his own sister needn’t be reminded of that.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Menexenus our grandfather had one son named Dicaeogenes, and four daughters, of whom Polyaratus my father married one; another was taken by Democles of Phrearrhi; a third by Cephisophon of Paeania; and the fourth was espoused by Theopompus the father of Cephisodotus.
— from How to Master the Spoken Word Designed as a Self-Instructor for all who would Excel in the Art of Public Speaking by Edwin Gordon Lawrence

In the year 1891 the Institution received valuable aid from Mr. Thomas G. Hodgkins of Setauket, N.Y., by the gift of $200,000.
— from Famous Givers and Their Gifts by Sarah Knowles Bolton

'Well, there; he says, most like you have got hold of some newfangled way for saving souls, and you wants to try it on we.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 697 May 5, 1877 by Various

It seemed the bounty of Providence that gave him one so nearly equal with whom to contend; and during the interval that must elapse before they could clash, he was busy in educating himself for the struggle.
— from Tales and Stories Now First Collected by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

So much was given her, ought she not to be content?
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Jim Holden turned round and looked at him as if he thought he had got hold of some new-fashioned expletive,—possibly a pretty hard one.
— from A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

This morning his majestie sent a party of horse to look after Whitney, the great highwayman, on some notice he was lurking between Barnet and St. Albans: they mett with him at the first of the said towns, who finding himselfe attackt, made his defence and killed one of them, and wounded some others: but at last was taken and brought to London.
— from Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals by Alfred Marks

They've got hold of Selden now,
— from The Adventures of a Modest Man by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers