When the army is numerically very superior to the enemy, or when the river is passed just after a great victory gained, the difficulty mentioned is trifling; but when the campaign is just opening, and the two opposing armies are about equal, the case is very different.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

After other interesting exercises, including an invocation from Bishop Nelson, of Georgia, a dedicatory ode by Albert Howell, Jr., and addresses by the President of the Exposition and Mrs. Joseph Thompson, the President of the Woman's Board, Governor Bullock introduce me with the words, "We have with us to-day a representative of Negro enterprise and Negro civilization.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Four shallops came off with very little noise alongside the lugger, which, no doubt, in acknowledgement of the compliment, lowered her own shallop into the sea, and the five boats worked so well that by two o’clock in the morning all the cargo was out of La Jeune Amélie and on terra firma .
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Thus, for example, at Plouharnel-Carnac (Morbihan) there is a menhir surmounted by a Christian cross, just as at Dol (Ille-et-Vilaine) a wooden crucifix surmounts the great menhir, and at Carnac there is a dolmen likewise christianized by a stone cross-mounted on the table-stone.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

But with how keen and just an accent of grief does Lucan [136] exclaim: "I sing that worse than civil war waged in the plains of Emathia, and in which the crime was justified by the victory!"
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

He also proves to us that a naturally noble nature, if it be not properly disciplined, will produce many good and bad qualities together, just as a rich field, if not properly tilled, will produce both weeds and good fruit.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

There she rejoiced in her children with wonder-great joy, and all being overjoyed at this happy issue, they redoubled in feasting and merrymaking and prolonged the festivities several days, accounting Gualtieri a very wise man, albeit they held the trials which he had made of his lady overharsh, nay, intolerable; but over all they held Griselda most sage.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

About midnight Joe awoke, and called the boys.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Anyone could say of any short story, "A mere anecdote," just as anyone can say "Incoherent!" of any novel or of any sonata that isn't studiously monotonous.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Bedos, that Ganymede of a valet, had himself but just arrived, and was unlocking the door as we entered.
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

In the end, Jeff and Ann were locked in separate cells for the night.
— from Butterfly 9 by Donald Keith

He took along two nephews of his, named Jean and Jacques, and an old Indian, named Montagnais because he was reputed to be the head chief of the tribe of that name to which all the Indians of that part of the country belonged.
— from Bob Hunt in Canada by George W. Orton

The opium belt of India is about 600 miles long and 180 miles wide, lying just above a line drawn from Bombay to Calcutta.
— from Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis

But before he did so Hume said: “It is a long journey and a hard one.
— from The March of the White Guard by Gilbert Parker

G. Scott Jackson at Alnwick when he was last on leave.
— from Q.6.a and Other places: Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918 by Francis Buckley

They were just as absurdly poor as this.
— from Fairfax and His Pride: A Novel by Marie Van Vorst

Meanwhile the contention between Reuchlin and the Dominicans, especially Hoogstraten, developed in another direction, and affected Judaism at another point.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

“He does not think it worth while,” said Janet, again absorbing herself in her paper, while the public united in guessing the acrostic; and the only objection was raised by the exact General, who would not allow that the “Marseillaise” was sung at the mouth of the Rhone, and defended Ino’s sobriety.
— from Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Second: Six hundred years before Christ, a prophet of the Lord named Lehi, being warned of the destruction of Jerusalem, departed with his family into the wilderness, traveling southward from the Holy City until he reached the borders of the Red Sea; and while camped on its shores he received direction from the Lord that his sons should return to Jerusalem and obtain a certain record in the hands of one Laban, containing a record of the Jews and also the genealogy of Lehi's forefathers engraven upon plates of brass.
— from New Witnesses for God (Volume 2 of 3) by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts