Brutus far to the West, in th' Ocean wide Beyond the Realm of Gaul, a Land there lies, Sea-girt it lies, where Giants dwelt of old, Now void, it fits thy People; thether bend Thy course, there shalt thou find a lasting seat, There to thy Sons another Troy shall rise, And Kings be born of thee, whose dredded might Shall aw the World, and conquer Nations bold.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

We can capture the Army of Northern Virginia if force enough can be thrown to this point, and then advance upon it.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

far to the west, in the ocean wide, Beyond the realm of Gaul, a land there lies, Seagirt it lies, where giants dwelt of old; Now, void, it fits thy people: thither bend Thy course; there shalt thou find a lasting seat; There to thy sons another Troy shall rise, And kings be born of thee, whose dreaded might Shall awe the world, and conquer nations bold" Brutus, guided now, as he thought, by divine direction, sped his course towards the west, and, arriving at a place on the Tyrrhene sea, found there the descendants of certain Trojans who, with Antenor, came into Italy, of whom Corineus was the chief.
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

There were about 800 of us: and I do not know if there were other infantry detachments near us, but I heard from the Colonel that a force of Cossacks was reconnoitring some eight or nine versts in front of us; and we could hear the distant booming of heavy guns, a sure sign that the contending parties were in contact, as artillery do not fire at nothing.
— from In the Russian Ranks: A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland by John Morse

To whom Diana in a vision replied:— Brutus, far to the West, in th' Ocean wide, Beyond the realm of Gaul, a land there lies, Sea-girt it lies, where Giants dwelt of old, Now void, it fits thy people; thither bend Thy course, there shalt thou find a lasting seat, There to thy sons another Troy shall rise, And kings be born of thee....
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 6 (of 8) by William Wordsworth

Allusions are made in some cases to the Scriptures, in the most general terms; and as the Old Testament writings were called Scriptures, and there was the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, and the epistles of Barnabas, James, Peter, and Paul, to which the term Scripture might apply, the reference is of no value in fixing the date of the Gospels.
— from The Christ of Paul; Or, The Enigmas of Christianity by George Reber

A small number of “red heads”—that is, non-armour-piercing projectiles useful only for fighting landing parties—had been brought from Adrianople and were reposing in Hamidié at the time of my visit, but these were small in quantity and of no value in fighting ships.
— from Ambassador Morgenthau's Story by Henry Morgenthau

Of course, if this kind of nocturnal visit is frequently repeated, the parents do not fail to discover it, although it is a point of honor among them to take no notice of their visitor; and, if they approve of him, matters then take their course, but if not, they use their influence with their daughter to ensure the utterance of the fatal 'please blow up the fire.'"
— from Bundling; Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America by Henry Reed Stiles

When I hear these sounds, so strangely different, and look at the speakers, I fancy them a living polyglot of the languages, a perambulating picture-gallery illustrative of national variety in form and feature.
— from The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Dame Shirley

In 1795 the Cortes of Navarre voted in favor of compulsory education.
— from A History of Spain founded on the Historia de España y de la civilización española of Rafael Altamira by Rafael Altamira

115. (2) In the last paragraph I have pointed out the two facts, that the presence of some emotion is necessary to give any very high value to a state of aesthetic appreciation, and [p. 191] that, on the other hand, this same emotion, in itself, may have little or no value: it follows that these emotions give to the wholes of which they form a part a value far greater than that which they themselves possess.
— from Principia Ethica by G. E. (George Edward) Moore