Then Agricola, fearing from the superior number of the enemy lest he should be obliged to fight as well on his flanks as in front, extended his ranks; and although this rendered his line of battle less firm, and several of his officers advised him to bring up the legions, yet, filled with hope, and resolute in danger, he dismissed his horse and took his station on foot before the colors.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

We base our opinion as to receiving counter-proof upon the unrepealed Section nineteen of the election law in the revised code.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

Gracious God, awaken them together; or if one of them only has merited that favour, if only one of them must join the small number of the elect, let the other be informed of it; let the other perceive the light of angels at the moment when the fate of the happy shall be proclaimed, in order that he may possess one moment of joy before he sinks into eternal night.
— from Corinne; Or, Italy. Volume 1 (of 2) by Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël

Divine fury was to sweep now over the entire land.
— from The Prophet Ezekiel: An Analytical Exposition by Arno Clemens Gaebelein

To be sure, back of him was the strongest nation on the earth, left so by the war, the one nation with resources, the creditor of all the others, to which a successful foreign policy would be naturally easy if it could only decide what that policy should be.
— from The Mirrors of Washington by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert

—"Size, type, paper, and printing, to say nothing of the excessively liberal and charming introduction of the illustrations, make this perhaps the most desirable edition of Scott ever issued on this side of the Border."
— from Macmillan's Three-and-Sixpenny Library of Books by Popular Authors December 1905 by Macmillan & Co.

It was a very gracious smile, but somehow not one that Elsie liked.
— from Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

When one reflects that such experienced heads as those possessed by the irreproachable Obosky, the immaculate Amori,—to say nothing of the estimable lady we are pleased to call the 'Empress of Brazil,'—when such heads as theirs are turned by a man it is high time to admit that he has something more than personal magnetism.
— from West Wind Drift by George Barr McCutcheon