The only point for a regulation for the formation for battle is to forbid the use of very deep columns, because they are heavy, and difficult to move and to keep in order.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another; which is as much as to know it together.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

I saw the big ships lying in the stream, the Alert, the California, the Rosa, with her Italians; then the handsome Ayacucho, my favorite; the poor, dear old Pilgrim, the home of hardship and hopelessness; the boats passing to and fro; the cries of the sailors at the capstan or falls; the peopled beach; the large hide-houses with their gangs of men; and the Kanakas interspersed everywhere.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Muyílu (mayílu) ang túbig kun ibutangs prísir, The water will become ice if you put it in the freezer.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The only further intimation I received of His Excellency's pleasure was, on my application to know if I should stop at Niagara, I received for answer that His Excellency had no desire to stop there, but if I wished it, it could make no difference to His Excellency.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

One day Hasan said to me and to Khayyam, "It is a universal belief that the pupils of the Imam Mowaffak will attain to fortune.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

will have us to consider well of it, [2549] with what kind of melancholy every one is troubled, for it much avails to know it; one is enraged by fervent heat, another is possessed by sad and cold; one is fearful, shamefaced; the other impudent and bold; as Ajax, Arma rapit superosque furens inpraelia poscit : quite mad or tending to madness.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

To these you may add the knavish impostures of jugglers, exorcists, mass-priests, and mountebanks, of whom Roger Bacon speaks, &c. de miraculis naturae et artis.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

With this message he likewise sent a letter containing the same offers, though we very well knew they could not read it, yet by this time they had learnt so much as to know it contained some command, and Cortes desired the ambassadors to return with an answer.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

After stipulation of the price the [169] "ceremony of marriage among the Kalmucks is performed on horseback.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

I've said good-bye to them, and they have to me, and they know I'm never coming back!
— from The Beloved Woman by Kathleen Thompson Norris

I used at one time to leave the fly in the fish's mouth to be removed by papa at the weighing house; until Clare pricked her tongue at dinner with an almost new, red hackle, and was so mean as to keep it, though I remembered then what I had done with it, and was certain it was mine-which was nothing less than dishonest of her.
— from The King's Stratagem, and Other Stories by Stanley John Weyman

However, in justice to this man, and to Kalamazoo, I ought to add that the town seemed to be rather free from "mansions."
— from Abroad at Home: American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Julian Street

I shall certainly be more happy in a morning; but whether I shall not sacrifice the fat, and the marrow, and the kidneys, i.e. the night, the glorious care-drowning night, that heals all our wrongs, pours wine into our mortifications, changes the scene from indifferent and flat to bright and brilliant!—O Manning, if I should have formed a diabolical resolution, by the time you come to England, of not admitting any spirituous liquors into my house, will you be my guest on such shameworthy terms?
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Charles Lamb

This last is beyond all question the simplest, easiest to manage and to keep in order, of any machine in the market.
— from Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 04, April 23, 1870 by Various

Looks do not count for much amongst the Koyukuk Indians.
— from Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Hudson Stuck