The English Government has lately given repeated and practical proofs of its sincere desire to substitute the peaceful and rational method of arbitration for the rough, cruel, and uncertain decision of force; and the conspicuous success of that method hitherto—though tried under circumstances not altogether favourable—must have prepared thinking men for the question: “Why cannot some scheme for the formation of an International Tribunal of Arbitration be formed and debated among the Powers who, by taking part in the Congress at Paris after the Crimean War, formally admitted the principle, and who have already seen it successfully applied in practice”?
— from Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling by Bertha von Suttner

Quite a little party of a quiet kind assembled in the drawing-room for tea—Frank Olliver, Mrs Conolly, Wyndham, and his subaltern George Rivers, a promising probationer of a year's standing.
— from Captain Desmond, V.C. by Maud Diver

Bands of monks on the great roads and public places of the empire, Massalians or Gyrovagi, as they were called, wandered from province to province, and cell to cell, living on the alms which they extorted from the pious, and making up too often for protracted fasts by outbursts of gluttony and drunkenness.
— from The Hermits by Charles Kingsley

Alcatraz seemed close at hand; beyond was the enormous green, red, and purple pyramid of Tamalpais climbing out of the water, head and shoulders above the little foothills, and looking out to the sea and to the west.
— from Blix by Frank Norris

He had scarcely uttered the words when the galley rounded a projecting point of land, and the correctness of the seaman's conjecture was apparent.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various

In a grey cloud's gliding rent, A pure pool of the brightest blue: So near it seems I've but to cast A flint out on the forward vast To mark it flashing blithely through!
— from Ardours and Endurances; Also, A Faun's Holiday & Poems and Phantasies by Robert Nichols

Each guest received at parting presents of dresses, gourds, cacao-beans, flowers, or articles of food.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

If I seem to have given rather a priggish picture of Arthur, it is a totally erroneous one.
— from Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted from His Letters and Diaries, with Reminiscences of His Conversation by His Friend Christopher Carr of the Same College by Arthur Christopher Benson

The general excitement in Germany received a palpable point of demand in the thirteenth article of the Act of Confederation.
— from The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt

But though these changed conditions must, of course, modify Clausewitz's details in many important particulars, still (to complete our circle and leave off where we started) I repeat that, as 225 human nature never changes, and as the moral is to the physical as three to one in war, Clausewitz, as the great realistic and practical philosopher on the actual nature of war, as the chief exponent of the moral and spiritual forces in war , will ever remain invaluable in the study of war.
— from The Reality of War: A Companion to Clausewitz by Stewart Lygon Murray