These are worth describing, but it must be remembered that research on PsyWar may not affect PsyWar itself as much as research in other fields which, by changing the character of war, will change PsyWar too.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

More ado to interpret interpretations More books upon books than upon any other subject More brave men been lost in occasions of little moment More solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak More supportable to be always alone than never to be so More valued a victory obtained by counsel than by force Morosity and melancholic humour of a sour ill-natured pedant Most cruel people, and upon frivolous occasions, apt to cry Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency Most men do not so much believe as they acquiesce and permit Most of my actions are guided by example, not by choice Mothers are too tender Motive to some vicious occasion or some prospect of profit Much better to offend him once than myself every day Much difference betwixt us and ourselves Must for the most part entertain ourselves with ourselves Must of necessity walk in the steps of another
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Numbers of people were there before me, all running in one direction, to the beach.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

I make a respectable income by it.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

As the marquis had promised, Villefort found the marquise and Renée in waiting.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

And—and then," mused Mr. Audley, rather irrelevantly, "there's Alicia, too; she's another nuisance.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Or, perchance, being more ambitious and less literary, you have desired to see—like a second Rastignac, the doors of high society opened to your eager gaze by means of the golden key suspended from Delphine de Nucingen's bracelet? Romancist, have you sighed for the angelic tenderness of a Henriette de Mortsauf, and realized in your dreams the innocent emotions excited by culling nosegays, by listening to tales of grief, by furtive hand-clasps on the banks of a narrow river, blue and placid, in a valley where your friendship flourishes like a fair, delicate lily, the ideal, the chaste flower?
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

he has just rejoined his mother, and rude is the journey which has conducted him to her!
— from Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Louisa Stuart Costello

Mind, therefore, and Matter are resolvable into this sole unity—the Law of ultimate mechanical movement and impulsion.
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson

If, as Melanchthon avers, reason is unable to prove the existence of God on philosophical grounds, then, by this very fact, the science of the supernatural loses every stay, nor is it possible any longer to defend revelation against unbelief.
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

The Abyssinian chroniclers state that Amda Zion, who died at Tegulet about the middle of the fourteenth century, first made a retributive inroad, in consequence of his rebellious vassals having, amongst many other derogatory expressions, taunted him as “an eunuch, fit only to take care of women.”
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

Rev. Rufus Taft L. M.; Mrs. Sarah K. Goddard, 5 142.23 Woman's Home Missionary Association of Mass. and R. I., Miss Annie C. Bridgman, Treas., for Woman's Work : W. H. M. A., for Salaries of Teachers 340.00 -------- $3,344.41 ESTATES.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 04, April, 1896 by Various

This establishes the opportunity and motive, and renders it antecedently probable that piracy was practiced.
— from The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers

Préciosité treated language not as a work of art, but as a medium for the display of individual linguistic dexterity; giving no thing its proper name, it delighted in paraphrase, allusion, word play, unexpected comparisons and abundance of metaphors, and revelled in the elusive, delicate, subtle, and complex.
— from Women of Modern France (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 7 (of 10) by Hugo P. (Hugo Paul) Thieme

The tramp of feet and the rattle of drums grew muffled and rumbled into silence.
— from The Hermit Doctor of Gaya: A Love Story of Modern India by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie

In the centre of the picture was the Franz Josef Glacier with its immense white snowfield behind, and the Almer Glacier flowing into it on [163] the left: prominent above the snowfield stood Mount Spencer in raiment of white, like a stately lady proud of her position: stretching away from Mount Spencer and the Franz Josef Glacier on either side, as far as eye could see, peak after peak was outlined in delicate purity against the blue, the summits varying in height and shape, some broad and rounded, others sharp and pointed, no peak standing out unduly from the rest—a range of mountains absolutely right in proportion, one harmonious whole, and all beautiful together.
— from By Forest Ways in New Zealand by F. A. Roberts