At New Orleans, at Vicksburg, at Port Hudson, and at Mobile, the task was not to engage, but to pass fortifications which the fleet confessedly could not stand up to; and the passage was to be made under conditions mainly of pilotage upon ground as to which, unlike Nelson, he had good knowledge.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

‘If I knew any respectable gentleman who would take the matter up,’ continued Mr. Trotter.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

My uncle, calling me into the room, told him, that we were both very well inclined to rescue him from a way of life that was equally dangerous and dishonourable; and that he should have no scruples in trusting to his gratitude and fidelity, if he had any employment for him, which he thought would suit his qualifications and his circumstances; but that all the departments he had mentioned in his letter, were filled up by persons of whose conduct he had no reason to complain; of consequence he could not, without injustice, deprive any one of them of his bread.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The famous republics of antiquity never gave examples of more unshaken courage, more haughty spirits, or more intractable love of independence than were hidden in former times among the wild forests of the New World.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Absence of a good orchestra has compelled propagandists to make up current music schedules by recording enemy musical programs, re-broadcasting them with new spoken commentary.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

You must know, the poor preacher, Humphry Clinker, is now exercising his ministry among the felons in Clerkenwell prison—A postilion having sworn a robbery against him, no bail could be taken, and he was committed to jail, notwithstanding all the remonstrances and interest my uncle could make in his behalf.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The result is an emotional explosion, a sudden burst of weeping, a gust of violent, angry, and irrelevant emotion, or, in [Pg 476] case the feelings are more under control, merely a bitter remark or a chilling and ironical laugh.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

’—‘Tis my upper chamber, my lords, my cleanest.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

At this moment up comes my salt-water acquaintance, elbowing his way through the crowd; there is a strange serio-comic expression of anger in his face; he stoops, makes horrid grimaces, quivering at the same time his (p. 25) left hand and arm about in a most extraordinary manner, and striking the thick part of his left arm with the palm of his right hand. "
— from Old New Zealand: A Tale of the Good Old Times And a History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 by Frederick Edward Maning

My uncle called me back, and I thought was disposed to assist Hall, who, manfully supported by the two or three friends that had stood by him the whole day, was now moving toward us, surrounded by a cluster of wrangling and menacing Injins; the whole party bearing no little resemblance to a pack of village curs that set upon the strange dog that has ventured in among them.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

Our matinée, my friends, Is interrupted, an important matter Unfortunately calls me away.
— from Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 5 by Robert Bridges

Crabbe stayed in his house for months under circumstances most calculated to be impressive.
— from Hours in a Library, Volume 2 New Edition, with Additions by Leslie Stephen

Indonesia Mediterranean Sea Atlantic Ocean Melbourne [US Consulate General] Australia Melilla Spain Merida [US Consulate Mexico Messina, Strait of Atlantic Ocean Mexico [US Embassy] Mexico Mexico, Gulf of Atlantic Ocean Milan [US Consulate General] Italy Minami-tori-shima Japan Mindanao Philippines Mindoro Strait Pacific Ocean Minicoy Island India Minsk [US Embassy] Belarus Mogadishu
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

That it is well-nigh inevitable under modern unaided conditions, may be true.
— from Radiant Motherhood: A Book for Those Who are Creating the Future by Marie Carmichael Stopes

You have put me upon counting my riches.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 1 Miscellaneous Prose by Charles Lamb

Their work that morning had, in fact, been strictly in line with labor, for the young men, under Captain McAneny, had been engaged in the study of field fortifications.
— from Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point Or, Finding the Glory of the Soldier's Life by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

"From all that fell under my own observation during my Christmas visit to Newstead, I feel convinced that, if conciliatory measures are not very Pg 122 soon adopted, the most unhappy consequences may be apprehended.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore