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— from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

Two armies marching, as they formerly did, with all their camp-equipage, and meeting unexpectedly, could do nothing better at first than cause their advanced guard to deploy to the right or left of the roads they are traversing.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

But after he ascertained that they were passing the winter at a considerable distance, he disregarded them and marched upon Carthage,—the Spanish town.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

The discourse was resumed presently, but it went lame and halting, all possibility of impressiveness being at an end; for even the gravest sentiments were constantly being received with a smothered burst of unholy mirth, under cover of some remote pew-back, as if the poor parson had said a rarely facetious thing.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

“It would destroy my usefulness,” continued the other hotly.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

And so in Rome only the walls of her houses remain standing—and even they wait now in fear of the most unspeakable crimes—but our republic we have lost for ever.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Don’t make your mind uneasy, captain,” replied the sailor, “I shall not expose myself needlessly!
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

What other resource have we to make us calm? More calm, I ought to say; for altogether so we cannot be.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

And I will place within them as a guide My Umpire Conscience, whom if they will hear, Light after light well us'd they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

How far the more or less definite allegations upon this subject are capable of substantiation it is beyond our scope to inquire, but certain disclosures in connection with the Tweed Ring, the Standard Oil Company, the Anthracite Coal Trust, and other syndicates induce the belief that [148] the more unscrupulous capitalists seek to influence the Courts of Justice as well as the Houses of Legislature in the pursuance of their business interests.
— from The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson

YORK Marry, my uncle Clarence' angry ghost: My grandam told me he was murder'd there.
— from The Tragedy of King Richard III by William Shakespeare

The forces that had worked for oligarchy in the past might under changed conditions produce a narrow type of urban democracy; but they presented no hope of the realisation of a true popular government.
— from A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge

Without this, she would have sensibility without observation, a most unhappy condition of the nervous system.
— from Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Alexander Walker

George ( moving up C. to L. window, trying to realize it ).
— from Mr. Pim Passes By: A Comedy in Three Acts by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

“But where are they—where is my uncle?” cried Bob, a little impatient at the man’s long-winded talk.
— from The Motor Boys Under the Sea; or, From Airship to Submarine by Clarence Young

233 RUFFLES AT: Funeral 641 Review 624 RULES FOR: Carrying piece 121 (First) Ceremonies 614 –616 Close order (battalion) 300 –306 Close order, company 210 –214 Deployment 236 –242 Drills and formations 57 –79 Execution of manual 122 Parades 634 ; 635 Reviews 617 –630 Salutes 75 Steps and marchings 107 –119 RUSHES: Advances made under covering fire 349 Begun by flank company 348 Command for 259 Company as whole led by captain 260 Prearranged methods prohibited 351 Size of rushing units 346 ; 347 Subsequent advancing 350 Use of position fire 293 When impossible for company to advance as a whole 258 Rust, how removed 1286 S Saber, manual of 671 –680 Safety lock 121 ; 185 SALUTES: Hand 106 Returned by reviewing officer 618 Rifle 141 Saber 75 ; 673 With color 660 See "Honors and salutes" also " Military Courtesy " SALUTING:
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

What quantities of subjects the doctor thought over during his vigil in that garden it is hard to say, but never in his whole life, probably, had he such a glorious opportunity for the most undisturbed contemplation of subjects requiring deep thought to analyze, than as he had then.
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

For one State only has an election been held for the Federal Government; but the early day at which it took place deprived the measure under consideration of much of the support it might otherwise have derived from the result.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents