C'est à ne pas mettre un chien dehors.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The fort was finally completed, and, on his suggestion, was garrisoned with a strong force of two hundred men under Captain Demeré.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The end was only delayed, however, and on August 8, 1760, the garrison of about two hundred men, under Captain Demeré, surrendered to Oconostota on promise that they should be allowed to retire unmolested with their arms and sufficient ammunition for the march, on condition of delivering up all the remaining warlike stores.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The forces of Mahomet consisted of two hundred horse and fourteen hundred foot: in the succession of eight regular and painful sieges they were exposed to danger, and fatigue, and hunger; and the most undaunted chiefs despaired of the event.
— 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

Les projections montrent une stabilité de l'usage du papier pour la lecture, mais une croissance de l'industrie de l'édition, tirée par la lecture numérique, et le livre électronique
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

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

Note 23 ( return ) [ Saserna, in Gaul, and Columella, in Italy or Spain, allow two yoke of oxen, two drivers, and six laborers, for two hundred jugera (125 English acres) of arable land, and three more men must be added if there be much underwood, (Columella de Re Rustica, l. ii.
— 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

, mais uniquement comme des moyens d’accroître
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

At another time he devoted himself entirely to music, and in a long latticed room, with a vermilion-and-gold ceiling and walls of olive-green lacquer, he used to give curious concerts in which mad gypsies tore wild music from little zithers, or grave yellow-shawled Tunisians plucked at the strained strings of monstrous lutes, while grinning negroes beat monotonously upon copper drums, or turbaned Indians, crouching upon scarlet mats, blew through long pipes of reed or brass, and charmed, or feigned to charm, great hooded snakes and horrible horned adders.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Mr. Leavitt did put a stop to it, but Fiske kept on with his meetings until Charley Douglas put an end to his career in the Glen.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

To-morrow he would be on his own ground and the modern university could do its damnedest.
— from The Young Physician by Francis Brett Young

2118 To these four hundred and fifty deputies, whose condition, education, instruction, and mental range qualified them for being good clerks, prominent men in a commune, honorable fathers of a family, or, at best, provincial academicians, add two hundred and eight curés, their equals; this makes six hundred and fifty out of eleven hundred and eighteen deputies, forming a positive majority, which, again, is augmented by about fifty philosophical nobles, leaving out the weak who follow the current, and the ambitious who range themselves on the strong side.—We may divine what a chamber thus made up can do, and those who are familiar with such matters prophesy what it will do.
— from The French Revolution - Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine

(Four excellentes musici, unà cum decem ministris aliis.)
— from Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851 by Various

“Why, yes, miss, us could do with Master Tony.”
— from The Vision of Desire by Margaret Pedler

But the knowledge of what he will not confess, and of what I have not the courage to ask, sits between us at meals, makes us constrained during our walks, even like the presence of a living stranger.
— from Penelope Brandling: A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth Century by Vernon Lee

If Dr. Hodge's meaning is, that matter unconstructed cannot do the work of mind, he misses the point altogether; for original construction by an intelligent mind is given in the premises.
— from Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Asa Gray

Like all other young men too, I fell in love, and then the thought of my ugliness came down on me like a thunderbolt.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, December 1882 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Promotion of True Culture. Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle by Chautauqua Institution

Je fus à ma mère J’ li dis “Ma mère, Doune mé une croûte de lait.”
— from Guernsey Folk Lore a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island by MacCulloch, Edgar, Sir