I reconnoitred my front thoroughly in person, from right to left, and concluded to make my real attack at the right flank of the bastion, where the graveyard road entered the enemy's intrenchments, and at another point in the curtain about a hundred yards to its right (our left); also to make a strong demonstration by Steele's division, about a mile to our right, toward the river.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Only by glimpses do the people know her, but those glimpses reveal enough to excite the warmest admiration, the most tender love.
— from Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition by Alice Mabel Bacon

Which view of Anglo-rabies she had derived from a profound study of various vaudevilles, in which the traditional God-damn was pre-eminent in his usual hues; and having delivered it, she sprang down from her wall, strapped on her little barrel, nodded to her gros bebees, where they lounged full-length in the shadow of the stone wall, and left them to resume their game at Boc, while she started on her way, as swift and as light as a chamois, singing, with gay, ringing emphasis that echoed all down the hot and silent air.
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida

All need inspiring with the spirit that will go forth and plant new schools, and gather in and secure a good religious education to every child in the community.
— from The Sabbath-School Index Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction. by R. G. (Richard Gay) Pardee

A general reform, executed through every department of the revenue , creates an annual income of more than half a million, whilst it facilitates and simplifies all the functions of administration.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Yet they turned coldly away and refused to help at those meetings, when they well knew that their help, earnestly and persistently given, was able to kill any great religious enterprise that ever was conceived of.
— from Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 by Albert Bigelow Paine

So, to instruct his students and the people as to the true ground of justification, which he had worked out from the study of the Bible and Saint Augustine amid the agonies of a tormented conscience, Luther prepared his theses,—those celebrated ninety- five propositions, which he affixed to the gates of the church of Wittenberg, and which excited a great sensation throughout Northern Germany, reaching even the eyes of the Pope himself, who did not comprehend their tendency, but was struck with their power.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Reformation by John Lord

The gentleman, refined even to exaggeration, has disappeared, and we have instead the rude language of democracy—" La garde meurt et ne se rend pas "—this is heroism, no doubt, but heroism of another sort.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

But then against that grief, Seneca teacheth us a good remedy: "Endeavour thyself evermore that thou do nothing against thy will, but the things that we see we shall needs do, let us always put our good will thereto."
— from Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by More, Thomas, Saint

They are the smoothest things in England, gigantic, rotund, easy; the eye rests upon their gentle contours and is at peace.
— from Highways and Byways in Sussex by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas