As a daughter of Saxony she was a great admirer of Napoleon, and maybe I am so still.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It was just at sundown when we cast anchor in a most beautiful land-locked gulf, and were immediately surrounded by shore boats full of Negroes and Mexican Indians and half-bloods selling fruits and vegetables and offering to dive for bits of money.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

When the Major heard from Jos of the sentimental adventure which had just befallen the latter, he was not, it must be owned, nearly as much interested as the gentleman from Bengal.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

But, in speaking of toleration as applied to acts or habits positively against the statutes, I limit my meaning to those which, in their own nature, are morally indifferent, and are discountenanced simply as indirectly injurious, or as peculiarly open to excess.
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey

"If you overheard the conversation between Captain Popple and me, you must be aware that I knew little or nothing about Mr. Ingersoll and Mademoiselle Yvonne," he retorted.
— from Flower of the Gorse by Louis Tracy

At a hundred and one points of naval and military importance a state of war existed.
— from The Fleets at War by Archibald Hurd

It may be right to add, as an undoubted fact which cannot be too often referred to or too widely made known, that among all classes of Spaniards, and even among the clergy themselves, are to be found men eminently pious; men who, although outwardly submitting to the exigencies of the worship which they are bound by their present laws to profess, are not ignorant page 29 p. 29 of the true spirit and doctrines of Christianity, and who, perhaps, only need a more intimate acquaintance with scriptural truth in all its purity to be transformed into a visible part of the faithful and chosen flock of Christ, and enabled to adopt, in all its latitude, the true gospel as the rule and standard of their faith and conduct.
— from Roman Catholicism in Spain by Anonymous

I have—through the feelings of my wife; through my own nerves and my imagination, as only one who is devoted can.
— from To Let by John Galsworthy

Over the whole, on the top of the tower, was an observatory, by means of which the Babylonians became more expert in astronomy than any other nation, and made, in a short time, the great progress in it ascribed to them in history.
— from The Young Captives: A Story of Judah and Babylon by Erasmus W. Jones

After arriving at some distance to the right, the column changed direction to the left; and after a march of nearly a mile, it arrived on the flank, and partly in the rear of the enemy.
— from The Seventh Regiment: A Record by George L. Wood

Men are deceived by the long-suffering of the laws of nature, and mistake, in a nation, the reward of the virtue of its sires, for the issue of its own sins.
— from The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm by John Ruskin

We do not believe much in the modern doctrine of progress, but we believe just as little in the wonderful superiority of nature and men in ante-historical times, which is sometimes assumed, especially by the champions of progress.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various