Pr. Let every thought too, soldier-like, be 45 stripped, / And roughly looked over.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

On the contrary, every well-connected, compact system of operations would be wise; so also with central strategic lines, and every strategic position less extended than the enemy's.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

When the peritonaeum suffers dilatation at the internal ring, 1, it advances gradatim and pari passu with the progress of the protruding bowel, and assumes the form, character, position, and dimensions of the inverted curved phases, marked 11, 11, till, from having at first been a very shallow pouch, lying external to the epigastric artery, 9, it advances through the inguinal canal to the external ring, 4, and ultimately traverses this aperture, taking the course of the fibrous tube, 3, down to the testicle in the scrotum. Plate 41--Figure 5 PLATE 41, Fig.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

If a psychic organization, such as this illness, has persisted for a long time, it finally behaves as an independent unit, it expresses something like self-preservation, attains a kind of modus vivendi between itself and other parts of psychic life, even those that are fundamentally hostile to it.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

The uneasy Prussian listened eagerly to these confused sounds.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

"Have you read the placards?" "No." Pierre Lefranc explained to them that the walls at that moment were covered with placards which the curious crowd were thronging to read, that he had glanced over one of them at the corner of his street, and that the blow had fallen.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

The monk very readily answered, 'Sir, I have not yet pertained long enough to the order of St. Benedict to have been able to learn every particular thereof, and you had not yet shown me that monks should make of women a means of mortification, [49] as of fasts and vigils; but, now that you have shown it me, I promise you, so you will pardon me this default, never again to offend therein, but still to do as I have seen you do.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

He purchased a commission as major of the Gardes de la Porte, in the latter part of Louis XV.'s reign; had by his wife a son, Paul, who was reared with austerity; emigrated, at the outbreak of the Revolution, to Martinique, but managed to save his property, Lanstrac, etc., thanks to Maitre Mathias, head-clerk of the notary.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

I ascend to the foretruck, I take my place late at night in the crow's-nest, We sail the arctic sea, it is plenty light enough, Through the clear atmosphere I stretch around on the wonderful beauty, The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them, the scenery is plain in all directions, The white-topt mountains show in the distance, I fling out my fancies toward them, We are approaching some great battle-field in which we are soon to be engaged, We pass the colossal outposts of the encampment, we pass with still feet and caution, Or we are entering by the suburbs some vast and ruin'd city, The blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

His body proved little else than the sensation of suffering.
— from Essays and Dialogues by Giacomo Leopardi

Not only will the induction balance give the exact spot where the ship is located, but it will give the precise location even though the lost ship is covered with sand or silt."
— from The Brighton Boys in the Submarine Treasure Ship by James R. Driscoll

The entire solemnities must be scrupulously completed by persons legally entitled to take part in them, or else the conveyance is null, and the seller is re-established in the rights of which he had vainly attempted to divest himself.
— from Ancient Law: Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Maine, Henry Sumner, Sir

In a twinkling the frogs all turned and made the longest leaps their powerful legs enabled them to.
— from Sky Island Being the Further Exciting Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill After Their Visit to the Sea Fairies by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Instead of hastening on, he stopped; and, having stopped, paused long enough to take in all the features of the scene, and any changes which time might have wrought.
— from Dark Hollow by Anna Katharine Green

LOOT If you've ever stole a pheasant-egg be'ind the keeper's back, “SNARLEYOW” This 'appened in a battle to a batt'ry of the corps, THE WIDOW AT WINDSOR 'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor? BELTS There was a row in Silver Street that's near to Dublin Quay, THE YOUNG BRITISH SOLDIER When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East, MANDALAY By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, TROOPIN' Troopin', troopin', troopin' to the sea, THE WIDOW'S PARTY “Where have you been this while away?” FORD O' KABUL RIVER Kabul town's by Kabul river, GENTLEMEN-RANKERS To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned, ROUTE MARCHIN' We're marchin' on relief over Injia's sunny plains, SHILLIN' A DAY My name is O'Kelly, I've heard the Revelly, OTHER VERSES THE BALLAD OF EAST AND WEST Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, THE LAST SUTTEE Udai Chand lay sick to death, THE BALLAD OF THE KING'S MERCY Abdhur Rahman, the Durani Chief, of him is the story told, THE BALLAD OF THE KING'S JEST When spring-time flushes the desert grass, WITH SCINDIA TO DELHI The wreath of banquet overnight lay withered on the neck, THE BALLAD OF BOH DA THONE
— from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling

To Shelley especially did he give immediate and fervid personal loyalty, even to the extent of endeavoring to follow him in "atheism" and vegetarianism.
— from Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Robert Browning

Should the birds desire to reach a distant spot, they usually descend to the ground, over the surface of which their powerful legs enable them to run with great rapidity.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 2 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

Maurice, whom he had only known slightly, rose in favor when the epicure found that the young Parisian could give all requisite information concerning the best restaurants in Paris; and the viscount reached a higher summit of esteem, when he promptly promised to put Lucien en train to familiarize himself with certain valuable culinary discoveries.
— from Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie