Lastly, the misfortune may be brought about by the mere position of the dramatis personæ with regard to each other, through their relations; so that there is no need either for a tremendous error or an unheard-of accident, nor yet for a character whose wickedness reaches the limits of human possibility; but characters of ordinary morality, under circumstances such as often occur, are so situated with regard to each other that their position compels them, knowingly and with their eyes open, to do each other the greatest injury, without any one of them being entirely in the wrong.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

He was then by commission a lieutenant in the regiment of Mounted Rifles serving in Mexico under Colonel Sumner, and, as he could not reach his regiment from California, Colonel Mason ordered that for a time he should be assigned to duty with A. J. Smith's company, First Dragoons, at Los Angeles.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

No. 30 Wednesday, April 4, 1711 1 Steele Si, Mimnermus uti censet, sine amore Focisque Nil est Fucundum; vivas in amore Focisque.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

But I agree, he replied; for I suppose that you mean to exclude mere uninstructed courage, such as that of a wild beast or of a slave—this, in your opinion, is not the courage which the law ordains, and ought to have another name.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Antipater was not to leave Macedon until Craterus should arrive there; and while Craterus was on his journey, Alexander suddenly died.
— from Pyrrhus Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

These latter were pursued by the mounted men under Captains Slack and St. Vrain, who killed fifty-one of them, only two or three men escaping.
— from The Old Santa Fe Trail: The Story of a Great Highway by Henry Inman

[412] "Non si attende à lettere, ma la Nobilità è a maraviglia ignorante e ritirata, mantenenda una certa sua alterigia, ehe loro clriamano sussiego , che vuol dire tranquillità et sicurezza, et quasi serenità."—Relazione
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second King of Spain, Vol. 3 And Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by William Hickling Prescott

It might have been because my introduction to her had been made, under circumstances such as often win a woman’s love.
— from Lost Lenore: The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Mayne Reid

Could we see the sum total of Supreme and Infinite Consciousness at a glance, perhaps individual men and women would dissolve into a mighty unity, could see and comprehend the whole of the luminiferous ether.
— from Hints for Lovers by Arnold Haultain

Or they may be lost altogether without injury to industry; whereas in savage economy there is some risk that a most useful craft, such as pottery, weaving, or canoe-building, may be entirely discontinued, if by the extinction of some group of men or women the rites and songs are forgotten with which such labour had always been made good.
— from The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions by Carveth Read

We do well to heed this fact, that not merely unnatural crimes, such as sodomy, bestiality, and the grosser forms of incest, but adultery, is by God ranked in the same category as murder.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Leviticus by Samuel H. (Samuel Henry) Kellogg

More Uhlans came sniffing around, but they cleared out in a hurry when our cavalry appeared.
— from The Girl Philippa by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

There is usually no time or opportunity at such a moment for sending instructions and you must use common sense and do something.
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss