It was a most extraordinary thing (she said to Mrs Boffin); she was foolishly susceptible of the power of beauty, but it wasn't altogether that; she never had been able to resist a natural grace of manner, but it wasn't altogether that; it was more than that, and there was no name for the indescribable extent and degree to which she was captivated by this charming girl.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

But this, it angered him afterwards to think, was in private; in public she was beyond his reach, and never gave occasion to the suspicion that she had any affair with him.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

The difficulties of a retreat are naturally greater or less according as the battle has been fought under more or less favourable circumstances, and according as it has been more or less obstinately contested.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

He detached guards to the shores, convened his officers in council, applied directly to General Ward for reinforcements, and no general officer gave him an order.
— from The Command in the Battle of Bunker Hill With a Reply to "Remarks on Frothingham's History of the Battle, by S. Swett" by Richard Frothingham

And as a result they raised a new generation of faithful Catholics who took their religious duties as seriously as the people of the early Middle Ages.
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

The Netherlanders, notwithstanding the money which they had raised on Elizabeth's guarantee, wanted yet more; and they put into her hands the jewels and plate which Matthias of Austria, the brother of the Emperor Rudolph and nominal governor of the States, had pledged to them.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

Now, I will introduce to my readers a new game of parlour kayle-pins, that can be played across the table without any preparation whatever.
— from The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney

She seemed quite interested and quite enthusiastic about a new life in America, and she seemed to me that she wanted to take part in it, but she got over here and it was, she was just in one room and never got out, and she always kept saying, "When I learn English, it will be different."
— from Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

It is possible to-day, as it most certainly was in those traditional days, to behold a complete circular Rainbow at Niagara; generally, only when one is out in front of the falling waters, close to the spray, near the level of the river in the Gorge; always with the Sun at one's back—and the Sun must shine brightly, and the Mist must be plentiful.
— from Niagara: An Aboriginal Center of Trade by Peter A. (Peter Augustus) Porter

We, on the other hand, bivouac in the rain and never get out on pass.
— from A Close Encounter: The Marine Landing on Tinian by Richard Harwood