H2 anchor 12 Council of War HERE was a great rush of feet across the deck.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

"This one at least," said one of the notaries, "your worship will not be able to get rid of, for a great man owns it, and what he loses every year is beyond all comparison more than what he makes by the cards.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Mrs. Septimus Small was the tallest of the four sisters; her good, round old face had gone a little sour; an innumerable pout clung all over it, as if it had been encased in an iron wire mask up to that evening, which, being suddenly removed, left little rolls of mutinous flesh all over her countenance.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

To one nervous system shattered by dissipation, abuses, over-excitement, a fast life, feverish haste to get riches or fame, hastening puberty by stimulating food, exciting life, etc.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Meot's gallant Royalists on furlough are far across the Marches; they are wandering distracted over the world: or their bones lie whitening Argonne Wood.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

— Cranch It must be made perfectly clear that inflection deals mostly in subtle, delicate shading within single words , and is not by any means accomplished by a general rise or fall in the voice in speaking a sentence.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

It is nothing but a magical ceremony for getting rid of fatigue, which the simple savage fancies he can embody in a stick, leaf, or stone, and so cast it from him.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Even after one instance or experiment where we have observed a particular event to follow upon another, we are not entitled to form a general rule, or foretell what will happen in like cases; it being justly esteemed an unpardonable temerity to judge of the whole course of nature from one single experiment, however accurate or certain.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Go then to Greece, report our fix'd design; Bid all your counsels, all your armies join, Let all your forces, all your arts conspire, To save the ships, the troops, the chiefs, from fire.
— from The Iliad by Homer

See Tutors Governour, The , 92 , 182 , 183 n. Gower, 18 , 19 Grammar: rules of French, 9 , 10 , 13 , 31 sq. , 77 sq. , 80 , 82 , 88 n. , 89 sq. , 92 , 132 , 143 sq. , 157 sq. , 265 sq. , 286 , 288 , 290 , 305 , 386 Grammont, le Comte de, 366 , 369 , 371 , 373 Grantham, Th., 335 , 337 , 341 *Grave, Jean de, 295 sq. Greek, 64 n. , 73 , 74 , 84 , 88 , 92 , 120 , 121 , 153 , 188 , 190 , 210 , 239 , 276 , 293 , 298 , 305 , 335 n. , 337 , 338 n. , 394 , 398 , 399 Greene, Rt., 178 , 194 n. , 215 , 275 -433- Grelot, Jérôme, 260 Grenville, Fulke, 128 Grévin, Jacques, 65 n. , 273 n. Grey, Lady Jane, 64 n. , 73 n. Grey, Lord of Wilton, 202 , 208 Grocyn, 62 Guide-books for travellers: in England, 273 n. , 321 , 369 , 388 , 396 n. ; in France, 221 sq. , 347 sq.
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley

Now the guns roar out from the citadel to announce the coming of the Archduke and his wife.
— from The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France by Edward Parrott

The faces of all the people seemed to express an interrogation; as the great reverse of fortune had caused general disquietude, at length one of the crowd, bolder than the rest, questioned the Emperor, “Is it true that things are going so badly?”
— from The Napoleon Gallery or, Illustrations of the life and times of the emperor of France by Etienne Achille Réveil

The perusal of this story will not only prove fascinating, but its teaching will encourage young men to depend for success in life upon patience and perseverance in right paths, rather than upon great natural gifts, real or fancied.
— from The Campers Out; Or, The Right Path and the Wrong by Edward Sylvester Ellis

XII. treats of storm waters and river floods, and shows how works can be designed for getting rid of flood water and how floods can be mitigated or prevented, one of the chief measures, the widening of the channel and the lowering of the water-level, being the opposite of that adopted for training works.
— from River and Canal Engineering, the characteristics of open flowing streams, and the principles and methods to be followed in dealing with them. by E. S. (Edward Skelton) Bellasis

Captain Kirwan's company fought bravely, sustaining the credit of their country through the whole campaign, and, under Bourbaki, were among those who actually struck the last blow the Germans received on French soil.
— from The Life Story of an Old Rebel by John Denvir

Just over the western margin of the Yellowstone Basin, yet within the limits of our great National Park, is the grand geyser region of Firehole River.
— from Wonders of the Yellowstone by James (Geologist) Richardson

He said he had tried to like good music himself, but it was no use: whenever he heard Fluff sing, he felt that Murchison ought to get rid of Fluff.
— from That Pup by Ellis Parker Butler

(Gaert) great, "gaert mawr o Fuss," great root of Furze.
— from A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End Comprehending the topography, botany, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mining, mineralogy and geology of West Cornwall by John Ayrton Paris

The few straggling villages that we had passed since our departure from Galatz were of the most wretched description; and Hirsova itself is in a ruined state, having been besieged and taken by the Russians after a gallant resistance of fifty days.
— from The City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Miss (Julia) Pardoe