No doubt this negative object in its single act is not so effective as the positive object in the same direction would be, supposing it successful; but there is this difference in its favour, that it succeeds more easily than the positive, and therefore it holds out greater certainty of success; what is wanting in the efficacy of its single act must be gained through time, that is, through the duration of the contest, and therefore this negative intention, which constitutes the principle of the pure defensive, is also the natural means of overcoming the enemy by the duration of the combat, that is of wearing him out.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

I am inclined to believe, that a packet is far superior to a stage- coach, as a means of making men open out to each other.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The white men mixing together in their heads the description of the landmark and the district where, as they were, emphatically told, there were crowds, made out of the expressions "trees rising out of the water," and "Toronto," convertible terms, which they were not.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Ages ago, thousands of generations ago, man had thrust his brother man out of the ease and the sunshine.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Now one of the main objects of the expedition began to be accomplished.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Even the poorest and most forlorn wanderer finds in him a powerful advocate, for he, by a wise and merciful dispensation, ordains that the mighty ones of the earth should succour their distressed and needy brethren.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Notwithstanding the mysterious obscurity of the Edda, we can easily distinguish two persons confounded under the name of Odin; the god of war, and the great legislator of Scandinavia.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Sailing craft visiting the Harbour in 1835, and later, were:—the Three Brothers , the Superior , the Emily , the Robert Burns , the Prosperity , the Fanny , the Perseverance , the Matilda , of Oswego, the Elizabeth , of Lewiston, the Guernsey , the Peacock , the Caroline , the Fair American , the Sovereign , the Jessie Woods , the Erin , the Charlotte , the Winnebago , the Lord Nelson , the Enterprise , the Boxer .
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

46 It was determined that the levy should not be made out of the entire body of the people indiscriminately.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

He educated me out of the entire pay roll one week, and is now working for the U. S. Government in San Quentin."
— from It Pays to Smile by Nina Wilcox Putnam

God created medicines out of the earth, And a prudent man will not be disgusted with them.
— from The Makers and Teachers of Judaism From the Fall of Jerusalem to the Death of Herod the Great by Charles Foster Kent

They occur on most of our trees, e.g. Poplar, Lime, Oak, and are very common in the Tropics.
— from Disease in Plants by H. Marshall (Harry Marshall) Ward

Not till scientific chemistry is taught in our Board schools and made one of the elements of a scholar’s ordinary education, can we hope to see it used successfully with bakers in making bread.
— from The Bread and Biscuit Baker's and Sugar-Boiler's Assistant Including a Large Variety of Modern Recipes by Robert Wells

I had firmly resolved to inform him of my observations of the evening before, for I saw that Anna Maria was not to be spoken to again about Susanna.
— from A Sister's Love: A Novel by W. Heimburg

The tidal and meteorological observations of the expedition were his particular charge, while, during the long dark winter night, his mathematical training enabled him to be of great assistance in working out problems of march formation, transportation and supplies, and arrangements of the supporting parties.
— from The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary

But the most interesting information is his next sentence: “Indeed there was a general sickness (supposed to proceed from the hurtful vapours belched from the many openings of the earth) all over the island, so general that few escaped being sick: and ’tis thought it swept away in all parts of the island three thousand souls, the greatest part from Kingstown, only yet an unhealthy place [771] .”
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

Dr. Drake was the medical officer of the establishment.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Charles Lamb