Having got rid of foreign enemies, 567 he makes himself necessary to the State by always going to war.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Having got rid of foreign enemies, he makes himself necessary to the State by always going to war.
— from The Republic by Plato

‘You had better step into the marquee, I think, Sir,’ said one very stout gentleman, whose body and legs looked like half a gigantic roll of flannel, elevated on a couple of inflated pillow-cases.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

This antagonist Queen is nothing but the love of God raying out for ever to us inferior creatures, who, by reason of our sinfulness, have deserved something widely different.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

The following calculations, written on November 6th, 1914, were made by the author: "The German Admiral will expect us to get reinforcements out from England, so that it seems probable that he will lose no time in coming round to the east coast.
— from The Battle of the Falkland Islands, Before and After by Henry Edmund Harvey Spencer-Cooper

Tea is a grand restorer of failing energy.
— from Tent life with English Gipsies in Norway by Hubert (Solicitor) Smith

Tak the altitude of the sonne whan thee list, as I have said; and set the degree of the sonne, in cas that it be by-forn the middel of the day, among thyn almikanteras on the est side of thyn Astrolabie; and yif it be after the middel of the day, set the degree 5 {190a} of thy sonne up-on the west side; tak this manere of setting for a general rewle, ones for evere.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

On to this sunlit scene stalks Hiordis, a figure of gloom, revenge, of feud eternal, of relentless hatred and uncompromising unforgetfulness of wrong.
— from The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections by Ellen Terry

Now, the general result of foreign experience goes strongly to show that narrow gauges exceeding 30 in.
— from Minimum Gauge Railways by Heywood, Arthur Percival, Sir, bart.

He has taught it how to get rid of foreign elements which were still present in it, and which marked an imperfect stage of its development.”
— from The Quest of the Historical Jesus A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede by Albert Schweitzer

“Are they indeed?” said the bishop, turning sharply round; for the theme of health was one that engaged all his sympathies; and although his short apron covered a goodly rotundity of form, eating exacted to the full as many pains as it afforded pleasures to the Churchman.
— from The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles James Lever