Of course I could not deny the fact, and had to submit to all its painful consequences for months; and, moreover, I could not hide from myself that many of the officers and soldiers subsequently placed under my command looked at me askance and with suspicion.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

letter of credit, circular note; duplicate; mortgage, lien, debenture, paper credit, floating capital; draft, lettre de creance[Fr][obs3], securities.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

But each time they noticed distinctly a terrible struggle going on, then plaintive cries from Pierrot, who had been bitten by his companion, who ate up everything as he was the stronger.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

existence.—The other (which is also called the metaphysico- cosmological proof) concludes from the necessity of the existence somewhere of a thing (which must be conceded, for a being is given to us in self-consciousness), its complete determination as that of a Being the most real of all; for everything existing must be completely determined, but the absolutely necessary ( i.e. that which we ought to cognise as such and consequently a priori ) must be completely determined by means of its own concept .
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

The rest of mankind, all those whose instincts are not warlike, desire peace, concord, freedom, "equal rights": these things are but names and steps for one and the same thing.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“The preacher comes from Treddleston, then, does she?” “Nay, sir, she comes out o' Stonyshire, pretty nigh thirty mile off.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

During the ages of hardships and incessant warring between their own various races, as well as with the green men, and before they had fitted themselves to the changed conditions, much of the high civilization and many of the arts of the fair-haired Martians had become lost; but the red race of today has reached a point where it feels that it has made up in new discoveries and in a more practical civilization for all that lies irretrievably buried with the ancient Barsoomians, beneath the countless intervening ages.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

For pecus , cf. fee , fief , feudal .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Lady Warwick had also a son by her former husband, a very fine, spirited, and accomplished youth, for whose welfare the dying Addison showed peculiar concern; for, in the extremity of his disorder, having dismissed his physicians, and with them all hopes of recovery, he desired that the young Lord Warwick might be called to his bedside.
— from Cato: A Tragedy, in Five Acts by Joseph Addison

“No doubt of it,” answered Jack, as he drew a percussion cap from his pouch, and placed it carefully on the nipple of his rifle.
— from The Gorilla Hunters by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

With great joy the priest complied, for it was the first and, indeed, the only baptism on the whole summer’s voyage.
— from The Man with the Iron Hand by John Carl Parish

The Spaniards possess a dramatic literature of inexhaustible wealth; in fertility their dramatists resemble the Greeks, among whom more than a hundred pieces can frequently be assigned by name to a single author.
— from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Hoffman suggested that he had once seen an injured man walked back inside his suit like a robot, but it was a delicate adjustment, controlling power circuits from outside a suit.
— from The Spicy Sound of Success by Jim Harmon

Grecian furniture, delicately wrought toilette amphoræ, tapestries with mythological scenes, lay in a heap mingled with rawhide whips, shields of hippopotamus hide, and the rags of Hannibal's personal costume, for, though a lover of glittering arms, he was careless and dirty in his dress.
— from Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

But believers are not under that—that is, not their Lord, therefore that hath nothing to do with them; and besides, Christ's blood hath not only taken away the curse thereof, but also He hath in His own Person completely fulfilled it as a public Person in our stead.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

Her astonishment now was greater than ever, and she could account by no possible conjecture for a conduct so extraordinary.
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 by Fanny Burney

This can be made in two ways—either the same as the amidships one, in a single piece cut from a soft wood, or in two pieces cut from a hard wood.
— from The Boy's Own Book of Indoor Games and Recreations A Popular Encyclopædia for Boys by Gordon Stables

The milk showed a specific gravity of 1.028 and contained 20.1 per cent total solids; 7.5 per cent fat; 4.2 per cent milk sugar and .8 per cent ash.
— from Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King