Joubert, Lannes, Lanusse, Victor, Murat, Chabot, Dupuy, Rampon, Pijon, Menard, Chabran, and St. Hilaire are wounded....
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

He loves Liza very much and she likes him, evidently.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

4b1 láin, lahì — very much different.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Lotty laughed very much too, and at the end of it bent down and kissed her again—kissed her several times.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

His sister-in-law, a young girl Levin liked very much, lived in his house; and Levin knew that Sviazhsky and his wife would have greatly liked to marry the girl to him.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

To the left lay verdant meadows, picturesque villas, and sloping hills, stretching far into the distance until bounded by a belt of forest, beyond which the ground rose again, capped by a rugged crag.
— from Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma by Maude Alma

The author was {239} an old man when he wrote this last, but he survived it six years, and died on 23d January 1866, having latterly lived very much alone.
— from Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury

More frequently than this correct seven-foot verse, with either a feminine or masculine ending, we find the incorrect type, consisting of a catalectic and a brachycatalectic dimeter, according to the model of the well-known Low Latin verse: Mihi est propositum | in taberna mori, which is often confounded with the former (cf.
— from A History of English Versification by J. (Jakob) Schipper

[70] What we regard as the ‘instinctive’ part of our character is, again, within large limits very malleable: by beliefs, by social circumstances, by institutions, and above all by the suggestibility of tradition, the work is often of individual minds.
— from The Fruits of Victory A Sequel to The Great Illusion by Norman Angell

Such works of literature lose very much in translation, and it may be asserted with some reason that they lose their most essential qualities.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper

A poor labourer póvero lavoránte that works from travaglíare morning till night mattína infíno sera (when he is well paid quando éssere bene pagáto for his labour) lavóro lives vívere more content and satisfied, conténto sodisfátto than those who have great riches.
— from Exercises upon the Different Parts of Italian Speech, with References to Veneroni's Grammar to which is added an abridgement of the Roman history, intended at once to make the learner acquainted with history, and the idiom of the Italian language by Ferdinando Bottarelli

These included Colonel Theodorick Bland and his cavalry who fought at Brandywine in 1777 and Charleston in 1780; General William Woodford, the victor at Great Bridge, who commanded Virginia Continentals fighting at Brandywine and Germantown in 1777, and Monmouth in 1778, was captured at Charleston in 1780 and died in a New York prison that December; Colonel William Washington and his cavalry who fought in nearly all the battles in southern campaigns; Colonel Peter Muhlenberg, who raised the German Regiment from the Valley and Piedmont around his Woodstock home and commanded them with distinction at Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, and Stony Point, and later led Virginia militia against Cornwallis in 1781; and the gallant Colonel Edward Porterfield, who died with many of his troops, called "Porterfield's Virginians" at Camden.
— from The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783 by Virginia. History, Government, and Geography Service

But Lester’s works-in-progress, his keepsakes, his sculptures and triptychs were still out, looking like venerated museum pieces in the stark tidiness that prevailed otherwise.
— from Makers by Cory Doctorow

It was fortunate for them that their mistress liked large, vigorous men, and had chosen them for their broad, military shoulders; but for that it would have been impossible for them to come out of their daily quarrels safe and sound.
— from Gerfaut — Volume 1 by Charles de Bernard