He could in disputation shine With pungent or obtuse retort, At times to silence would resort, At times talk nonsense with design; Quarrels among young friends he bred And to the field of honour led; VII Or reconciled them, it may be, And all the three to breakfast went; Then he'd malign them secretly With jest and gossip gaily blent.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

James R. Garfield Hamlin Garland Robert Garrett William H. Gay Bishop David H. Greer Jesse A. Gregg George B. Grinnell S. R. Guggenheim Luther Halsey Gulick, M. D. Dr. G. Stanley Hall Dr. Winfield Scott Hall Lee F. Hanmer
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Nevertheless, the Acts of the Apostles, though containing much in relation to the progress of the Gospel among Jews and Gentiles, gives but little information with regard to Jewish individual conversions, and mentions only two Jewish Christian [ 10] martyrs—namely, St. Stephen and James the Elder—and is even silent about the exclusion of Jewish converts from the Temple, which we gather only from the Epistle to the Hebrews.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

And all matters of Moral Action belong to the class of particulars, otherwise called extremes: for the man of Practical Wisdom must know them, and Judiciousness and [Greek: gnomae] are concerned with matters of Moral Actions, which are extremes.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

[ Jack and Gwendolen go off.]
— from The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde

But for the present I won't say more than get ye up behind me on my horse as far as the inn, and sup with me there, and to-morrow you shall pursue your journey, and God give you as good speed as your intentions deserve."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

We could not [Pg 52] attack the ruin of free enterprise by the Japanese and German governments since socialism existed on the Allied side too.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The Confederate fleet overtook her just above Grand Gulf, and attacked her after dark on the 24th of February.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

James A. Garfield, General W. T. Sherman, the Hon. S. S. Cox, and others.
— from Famous Men of Science by Sarah Knowles Bolton

“Grass is grass, and we have just as good grass at home as anywhere.”
— from Zigzag Journeys in Europe: Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands by Hezekiah Butterworth

, he said in express terms: "For perhaps if we leave this to pleasure, that it is a good but not the end, and that honesty is one of those things which are eligible for themselves, we may preserve justice, making the honest and the just a greater good than pleasure."
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

“So we joined a gang going west.
— from From Squire to Squatter: A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables

He's just a great gumph.”
— from The Duke of Stockbridge: A Romance of Shays' Rebellion by Edward Bellamy

The [305] men of the British army, whether recruits or old stagers, filled their breeches and jackets, and gave good measure round calf and thigh and chest.
— from With Wellington in Spain: A Story of the Peninsula by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

He then vindicated President Johnson and General Grant against the charge of “whitewashing,” quoting passages from them.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 13 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Her lips trembled, and she turned from him hastily to join a group gathered round the professor.
— from In the Tideway by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Dick was right, and five minutes after, he and his companions had joined a group gathered round Mr Marston, while Bargle, the big labourer, was talking.
— from Dick o' the Fens: A Tale of the Great East Swamp by George Manville Fenn