So the soldiers, after a twenty-mile march, were kept mending and cleaning all night long without closing their eyes, while the adjutants and company commanders calculated and reckoned, and by morning the regiment—instead of the straggling, disorderly crowd it had been on its last march the day before—presented a well-ordered array of two thousand men each of whom knew his place and his duty, had every button and every strap in place, and shone with cleanliness.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

He knew me, and asked if I remembered one Edwards; I did not at first recollect the name, but gradually as we walked along, recovered it, and told him a conversation that had passed at an ale-house between us.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Duha ka mutursiklu ang nag-iskurt sa kutsing gisakyan sa artista, Two motorcycles escorted the car the actress was riding in.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

This siren had formed a design to wreck my happiness even before she knew me, and as if to add to her triumph she told me as much.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Some of the native tribes of Central Queensland believe in a noxious being called Molonga, who prowls unseen and would kill men and violate women if certain ceremonies were not performed.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

And then Sir Segwarides delivered all prisoners, and set good governance in that valley; and so he returned into Cornwall, and told King Mark and La Beale Isoud how Sir Tristram had advanced him to the Isle of Servage, and there he proclaimed in all Cornwall of all the adventures of these two knights, so was it openly known.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Knowing more about it than the other man will be your only hope for making the other man listen to you.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

But never would the hound depart from Tristram; and when King Mark and other knights came up to see him, it sat upon his body and bayed at all who came too near.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

[4227] Constantine the emperor in his Geoponicks, attributes no other virtue to it, than to kill mice and rats, flies and mouldwarps, and so Mizaldus, Nicander of old, Gervinus, Sckenkius, and some other Neoterics that have written of poisons, speak of hellebore in a chief place.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The following was the programme of the occasion: (1) A quartette from Webbe; (2) A Languedoc air in three parts, from Desrues; (3) A trio from the opera of Œdipus in Colonna , by Sacchini; (4) Singing at sight intervals of all kinds, major and minor; (5) Singing at sight in eight different keys; (6) Two rounds in three voices from Siller; (7) A quartette from the Clemenza di Tito of Mozart; (8) A quartette from the Iphigenia of Gluck; (9) A trio from the Corysander , or the Magic Rose of Berton; (10) Exercise upon the tonic in all the keys, major and minor; (11) Exercise in naming notes vocalized; (12) Singing at sight a trio from the Magic Flute of Mozart; (13) Ave Regina , by Choron—three voices; (14)
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

Mignionette must be very carefully treated, kept moist, and every seed- pod clipped off as soon as the flower fades, or it will not be preserved.
— from Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by David Lester Richardson

No storm could keep me away to-night."
— from Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

] It was agreed that no young man except the Comte d'Artois should be admitted into the company of performers, and that the audience should consist only of the King, Monsieur, and the Princesses, who did not play; but in order to stimulate the actors a little, the first boxes were to be occupied by the readers, the Queen's ladies, their sisters and daughters, making altogether about forty persons.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 3 Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan

I knew Muir and I knew Tommy, and I was sure that the latter was innocent.
— from The Autobiography of a Thief by Hutchins Hapgood

And I'll bet you the juleps he knows more about you now than you do about yourself.
— from The Lead of Honour by Norval Richardson

As the man closed the outer door, Kate made a step forward, crying: "You never mean to say that I am a prisoner in my own father's house?"
— from The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

I never use to talk English one year ago, but the Agent at my home, keep me at his office where there was many white men were writing.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 3, March, 1880 by Various

Where are schools, hospitals, asylums and charities of every kind most abundant?
— from Bible Characters by Dwight Lyman Moody