As a political manifesto, it has had an almost greater success, and the movement that it launched is far from exhausted even yet.
— from Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Frederic Harrison

A bullet sounds quite close when it is fifty yards away, and there is a popular saying that a man's weight in lead is fired for every man that is killed in war.
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

Lastly I debated with myself whether to make the note on Homer longer by examining the typical meaning of the shipwreck of Ulysses, and his escape from Charybdis by help of her fig-tree; but as I should have had to go on to the lovely myth of Leucothea's veil, and did not care to spoil this by a hurried account of it, I left it for future examination; and three days after the paper was published, observed that the reviewers, with their usual useful ingenuity, were endeavouring to throw the whole subject back into confusion by dwelling on the single (as they imagined) oversight.
— from Unto This Last, and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin