He is a very handsome, young, and kind-hearted Emperor; he has more intelligence than people usually give him credit for.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Yet Thomas remained inside of Nashville, seemingly passive, until General Hood had closed upon him and had entrenched his position.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Pwirting ulána gahápun, How it rained yesterday!
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Pile up gold, heap up silver, build covered walks, fill your house with slaves and the town with debtors, unless you lay to rest the passions of the soul, and put a curb on your insatiable desires, and rid yourself of fear and anxiety, you are but pouring out wine for a man in a fever, and giving honey to a man who is bilious, and laying out a sumptuous banquet for people who are suffering from dysentery, and can neither retain their food nor get any benefit from it, but are made even worse by it.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

N'est-ce pas un gadget hyperaliénant, cette prétendue interactivité?
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

He concentrated all his will power upon gaining his vessel as quickly as possible.
— from Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

The American Congress, which had sat at Philadelphia until General Howe approached the town, had taken extensive measures for rendering the passage impracticable.
— from True to the Old Flag: A Tale of the American War of Independence by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

About the 28th day of April the Army of the Potomac, under General Hooker, took up its march for the fords of the upper Rappahannock to cross against General Lee at Fredericksburg.
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet

The door was opened part way, and she was sullenly motioned to enter by a tall woman, who slipped behind it so as to be partly unobserved, giving her visitor as she did so a look which certainly would have attracted Stargarde’s attention could she have seen it, so blended with a curious variety of emotions was it.
— from The House of Armour by Marshall Saunders

So imperfect is still the education of the multitude that in these matters the ill-bred fanatic of pruriency usually gains his will.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

Nothing was seen of the fugitive, however, and the boys picked up Greg Holmes close to the little swimming pool.
— from The High School Boys in Summer Camp by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock