Napoleon, as we know, according to the veterans of the old school whom he defeated, won his battles by violating every accepted canon of warfare.]
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

Once off the beaten track, a tourist who has not a working knowledge of the language of the country he is driving through, is at a disadvantage, but plenty of people constantly do it, so it is at least not insurmountable.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Both the taming of the beast man, and the rearing of a particular type of man, have been called "improvement": these zoological termini, alone, represent real things—real things of which the typical "improver," the priest, naturally knows nothing, and will know nothing.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He came to me, (for I had no power to stir,) and put his arms about my neck, and would kiss me; and said, Well, Mrs. Jewkes, if it were not for the thought
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

But the question next arises, what kind of goods are we to call independent?
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

The cavalry (General Kilpatrick commanding), leaving its encumbrances with the right wing, will push as though straight for Weldon, until the enemy is across Tar River, and that bridge burned; then it will deflect toward Nashville and Warrenton, keeping up communication with general headquarters.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

‘I made submission, being on the wrong side of the bolts and bars; and as you were not the made man then that you are now, you were glad enough to take back a clerk who wasn’t over nice, and who knew something of the trade you drove.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

No slave-dealer named Jegius could be found nor anyone who knew such a slave-dealer.
— from The Unwilling Vestal by Edward Lucas White

In towns, too, the numerous artisans who keep dogs, the young men who are rich enough to now and then indulge their sporting tendencies, and their more staid seniors who talk over agricultural progress or read Mr. Mechi's annual reports and Mr. Caird's letters to the Times , form, when added together, a large portion of the inhabitants.
— from Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer

In science we have men whose names are widely known, and the vast field for study and exploration afforded by this magnificent country may be expected to reward, by valuable discoveries, the labours of the geologist and mineralogist.
— from Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of

They have all had much success outside of their own country, and their names are well known to readers and theatre-goers of our own country.
— from Idling in Italy: Studies of literature and of life by Joseph Collins

Peleus, somtyme a noble and worthy kynge Subdued Achylles vnto the doctryne Of phenix whiche was both worthy and cunnynge Wherfore Achyllys right gladly dyd enclyne With his hert and mynde vnto his disciplyne Wherby his name so noble was at the last
— from The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Sebastian Brant

One day when Gustavus was standing in the cottage, clad in his peasant's garb, which was beginning to be the worse for wear, a body of Danish soldiers employed to track the fugitive, rushed in, breathless and anxious, and asked if a young nobleman, a well known traitor to the king, were not concealed about the place.
— from The Boy's Book of Heroes by Helena Peake

We were all of us hard of muscle and strong of wind now, and we knew that we could outstrip the savages.
— from The Gorilla Hunters by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The lion was roused in his nature; and, while Kate attended to her fallen friend, he sprung like an infuriated animal on the cowardly villain; wrenched his whip from his hand and let him feel not only the weight of it , but also of the avenger's athletic arm, in such a way as would cause him to remember it for many a day.
— from Fern Vale; or, the Queensland Squatter. Volume 3 by Colin Munro

The wife, who had constituted herself nurse, and who knew about as much of nursing as an ordinary cat would, asked me to look in on the invalid and see what I thought of him.
— from From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for young householders by J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton