We are masters of Brescia, Cremona, and Placentia.
— 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

When this happens a species of bracelets and anklets made of black cloth are put upon the child’s wrists and ankles, the ceremony being called tumpang sayang .
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The fact alone that so many men, who knew him in the places where he has resided, consider him as a man of bad character, affords plenary proof that he is so.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

But millions of British chins are prominent.
— from Everyman's Land by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

One other consideration regarding this picture, in the matter of balance, contains a principle: The line of the figure curves in toward the flower and pot which become the radius of the whole inner contour.
— from Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Henry Rankin Poore

The principal one is obvious; that you can only go just where the wind will take you; but there is an advantage corresponding to this in the quietness and steadiness of the motion, and it is not at all improbable that, with the rapid advances which are being made continually in the science of meteorology, the laws of winds will be ascertained sufficiently to enable the aeronaut to find one which will carry him in the general direction in which he wants to go, on most occasions, by choosing a proper elevation.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Nothing is more alluringly deceptive, and therefore more dangerous, than the cultivation of the æsthetic nature, either to the exclusion of the moral, or by cherishing a public sentiment that confounds them together.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXVII, August 1852, Vol. V by Various

The one are made out by continuity, and patient repetition of touches: the others, by glancing transitions and graceful apposition.
— from Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by William Hazlitt

My other brother could almost pay for a wooden house, and finding an old friend who would trust him, he settled himself very comfortably, we all thought.
— from More Stories of the Three Pigs by Sarah Grames Clark

I have not been able to find death on the field of battle, as I had desired; perhaps my existence is now the only obstacle to obtaining from the enemy reasonable terms, and since there remains no further means of continuing hostilities, I abdicate this moment, in favor of my son Vittorio, in the hope that, renewing negotiations with Radetsky, the new King may obtain better conditions, and procure for the country an advantageous peace.
— from Builders of United Italy by Rupert Sargent Holland