That doubtful cases may occur, cases, for instance, in which several combats may perhaps be regarded also as a single one, will not overthrow the ground of distinction we have adopted, for the same is the case with all grounds of distinction of real things which are differentiated by a gradually diminishing scale.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Roy laughed it off; but the fact of this incident impressing the men so strongly had a bad effect upon him, and he found himself forced to make an effort to fight it back before he joined his mother for the quiet hour or so he always spent with her before going on duty or retiring to rest.
— from The Young Castellan: A Tale of the English Civil War by George Manville Fenn

The act also gives to both patron and presentee an alternative mode of appeal against a bishop's refusal to institute or admit, except on a ground of doctrine or ritual, to a court composed of an archbishop of the province and a judge of the High Court nominated for that purpose by the lord chancellor, a course which, however, bars resort being had to the ordinary suits of duplex querela or action of quare impedit.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

If a rich man were openly to boast of his plate or his equipages, or a literary man of his essays or his sonnets, as lovers of flowers boast of their geraniums or dahlias or rhododendrons, they would disgust the most indulgent hearer.
— from Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by David Lester Richardson

Sabina now stands: and her mild shadow lies on that great church outside the gates, often destroyed, often restored, the shrine of Paul the Apostle, where, wounded and broken, but always faithful to her trust, she died.
— from The Makers of Modern Rome, in Four Books by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Kit felt, listening to the four of them go over dear old reminiscences, that it was as though she stood at the curtain of the past, on tiptoe at a peep-hole.
— from Kit of Greenacre Farm by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester

" With a grunt of disapproval or rage the great man of the daily press turned away to exchange bleatings with one of his "confreres".
— from Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1 by Frank Harris

With a grunt of disapproval or rage the great man of the daily press turned away to exchange bleatings with one of his confrères .
— from Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 1 by Frank Harris