Smith kept his army in such compact column movement and so well protected by guards and flankers that Forrest had strenuous work in trying to break into it.
— from Notes of a Private by John Milton Hubbard

When I look at my mother, Irene, and myself, I feel that we were the product of the so-called culture of the day, which substitutes shallow creeds, conventional manners, and systems, for all that is pure, strong, and noble in manhood or womanhood.
— from Hope Mills; Or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda M. Douglas

There is little sectarianism in Burma proper, but the Sawtis, an anti-clerical sect, are found in some numbers in the Shan States and similar communities called Man are still met with in Pegu and Tenasserim, though said to be disappearing.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

"And you did not say anything about it, sublime captain!" cried Michel Ardan, shaking his companion's hand.
— from The Moon-Voyage by Jules Verne

The sanitary regulations of the squadron, induced by the commencement of the rainy season, cause considerable mirth and some growling.
— from Journal of an African Cruiser Comprising Sketches of the Canaries, the Cape De Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and Other Places of Interest on the West Coast of Africa by Horatio Bridge

Some coast corps make a specialty of it, and compete for embarking and disembarking records.
— from Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling