I directed the glass on Kenesaw, and saw some of our pickets crawling up the hill cautiously; soon they stood upon the very top, and I could plainly see their movements as they ran along the crest just abandoned by the enemy.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Above a harlequin's mantle are the royal arms.
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

The arts, which are much superior to common trades, such as those of making clocks and watches, contain no such mystery as to require a long course of instruction.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The squire himself mingled among the rustics, and was received with awkward demonstrations of deference and regard.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Now only the commanders of detachments with staffs, and moving according to rules at a distance from the French, still regarded many things as impossible.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

For old Raminagrab is making Among their ranks a dreadful quaking.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

No power on earth, he swore, would induce him to marry his daughter to the son of such a villain, and he ordered Emmy to banish George from her mind, and to return all the presents and letters which she had ever had from him.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

It is not at all necessary for Dr. Huld to go to the court, wait in the ante-rooms for the examining judges to turn up, if they turn up, and try to achieve something which, according to the judges' mood is usually more apparent than real and most often not even that.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

As early as 1874 he won a medal at the Royal Academy of Munich, and he won the Thomas B. Clarke prize in the National Academy of Design, New York, in 1896.
— from The Mentor: The Revolution, Vol. 1, Num. 43, Serial No. 43 The Story of America in Pictures by Albert Bushnell Hart

Price 1/6 net The power of appreciating associations might almost take rank as a sixth sense, it is so keenly developed in some people and entirely lacking in others.
— from The Dickens Country by Frederic George Kitton

It will be the vehicle of important views on all matters affecting the races among which it labors, and will give a monthly summary of current events relating to their welfare and progress.
— from The American Missionary, Volume 34, No. 11, November 1880 by Various

The sources of information concerning this period of six hundred years are also much larger, though in a measure less trustworthy; for the two great epics of India, the Mâhâbhârata and the Râmâyana, are avowedly imaginative, and not--as are the hymns of the Rig-Veda--the outcome of the daily life of a people, which, like the accretions of a coral reef, remain to show what manner of creature once lived in them.
— from India Through the Ages: A Popular and Picturesque History of Hindustan by Flora Annie Webster Steel

This city stands at the entrance to the great province of Manzi, and there reside at it a great number of merchants who despatch carts from this place loaded with great quantities of goods to the different towns of Manzi.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

The handicaps and difficulties under which I labored are manifest, and the resolution as drafted indicates them in that it does not express as clearly and unequivocally as it would otherwise do the principles which formed the bases of the articles which I handed to the President on January 7 and which have already been quoted in extenso .
— from The Peace Negotiations: A Personal Narrative by Robert Lansing

He said he really feared, that by their artifices and industry, they would aggravate the President so much against the republicans, as to separate him from the body of the people.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson