Political Significance of the Marian Military Reform This complete revolution in the constitution of the Roman army seems certainly in substance to have originated from purely military motives; and on the whole to have been not so much the work of an individual, least of all of a man of calculating ambition, as the remodelling which the force of circumstances enjoined in arrangements which had become untenable.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

What induced Ramses, after several campaigns in Syria, to conclude a peace with the Cheta in the year 1367 B.C. ( p. 152 ), in which the advantage was not with Egypt?
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Max Duncker

But as soon as their money was spent, they were all like to have been imprisoned by their Landlady for a riot, as she called it, so they were soon glad to sheer off, and he thought himself happiest that could get first aboard.
— from Pirates by Johnson, Charles, active 1724-1731

"Sire, the cowardice of your brother has ruined all;" so Charette is said to have written to Louis XVIII.]—
— from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 10 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

Among his Eastern experiences he gravely related a story current in Sidon that a lord of that city once loved desperately but fruitlessly a noble maiden of Armenia; she died, and, like Periander of Corinth, on the night of her burial he opened her tomb and gratified his passion.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

It represents M. Thiers as an incompetent and impossible Minister, M. Guizot as a wise ambassador and a dangerous auxiliary, Lord Palmerston as a resolute and strong character; it shows that Thiers had 299 attempted to deceive and blind the eyes of every one and to take them in, and was simply laughed at, as also was France.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

"Sire, the cowardice of your brother has ruined all;" so Charette is said to have written to Louis XVIII.]— But the pretender to the crown of France had not yet drained his cup of misfortune.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various