Objectives of the allied operations in Europe 401 Spain declares war against England 401 Allied fleets enter the English Channel, 1779 402 Abortive issue of the cruise 403 Rodney sails with supplies for Gibraltar 403 Defeats the Spanish squadron of Langara and relieves the place 404 The allies capture a great British convoy 404 The armed neutrality of the Baltic powers, 1780 405 England declares war against Holland 406 Gibraltar is revictualled by Admiral Derby 407 The allied fleets again in the Channel, 1781 408 They retire without effecting any damage to England 408 Destruction of a French convoy for the West Indies 408 Fall of Port Mahon, 1782 409 The allied fleets assemble at Algesiras 409 Grand attack of the allies on Gibraltar, which fails, 1782 410 Lord Howe succeeds in revictualling Gibraltar 412 Action between his fleet and that of the allies 412 Conduct of the war of 1778 by the English government 412 Influence of Sea Power 416 Proper use of the naval forces 416 CHAPTER XII.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

; for, on the raising of the hand, he became sensible of confused noises in the air; incoherent sounds of lamentation and regret; wailings inexpressibly sorrowful and self-accusatory.
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

All the time there was a smell of lilac all round him.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Balthazar Castilio fall in love with a young man whom they never knew, but only heard him commended: or by reading of a letter; for there is a grace cometh from hearing, [4812] as a moral philosopher informeth us, as well from sight; and the species of love are received into the fantasy by relation alone: [4813] ut cupere ab aspectu, sic velle ab auditu , both senses affect.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

No doubt the marvellous development of journalism in England, as also the fact that our seats of learning aim rather at fostering mediocrity than anything higher, is due to our subconscious recognition of the fact that it is even more necessary to check exuberance of mental development than to encourage it.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

We trust our health to the physician, our fortune, and sometimes our life and reputation, to the lawyer and attorney.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

"Fifthly, The schools of learning and religion are so corrupted, as (besides the unsupportable charge of education) most children, even the best, wittiest, and of the fairest hopes, are perverted, corrupted, and utterly overthrown by the multitude of evil examples and licentious behaviours in these seminaries.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

“But it was a sacrifice which Heaven exacted to save our lives,” answered Rebecca, “and the God of our fathers has since blessed your store and your gettings.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Her mind delighted itself with scenes of luxury and refinement, situations in which she was the cynosure of all eyes, the arbiter of all fates.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

On the other hand there are a few cases where the 1645 edition exhibits the spelling which has succeeded in fixing itself, as travail (1673, travel) in the sense of labour; and rob'd, profane, human, flood and bloody, forest, triple, alas, huddling, are found where the 1673 edition has roab'd, prophane, humane, floud and bloudy, forrest, tripple, alass and hudling.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

And Sally was in Toby's arms, straining him to her, sobbing and uttering little sounds of love and relief.
— from Coquette by Frank Swinnerton

Law, not confusion, is the dominating principle in the universe; justice, not injustice, is the soul and substance of life; and righteousness, not corruption, is the moulding and moving force in the spiritual government of the world.
— from As a Man Thinketh by James Allen

The only signs of life are reports of assassinations, petty violations of law, and still more petty decrees on the part of the rulers.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.—September, 1851—Vol. III. by Various

The hour drew to a close with a final strenuous series of left and right wheels and the Winnebagos sought the shade of the trees along the roadside and fanned themselves with leaves.
— from The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit; Or, Over the Top with the Winnebagos by Hildegard G. Frey

There was however one subject of less absolute realism which Charlotte Brontë had at her command, having experienced in her own person and seen her nearest friends under the experience, of that solitude and longing of women, of which she has made so remarkable an exposition.
— from Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations by Katharine S. (Katharine Sarah) Macquoid

," both brought the same recurring motif that "a great many people are at this moment paying rather too much attention to the spice of life, and rather too little attention to life."
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

The Roxburghe had, however, at that time, [284] done nothing in serious book-club business, having let loose only the small flight of flimsy sheets of letterpress already referred to.
— from The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton

Even in silence and solitude and a belated sense of liberty and rights, she could not be free of them.
— from The Torch Bearer by Reina Melcher Marquis

The man who enters the field can not foresee the end, the man who studies the science of life, and records his experiments, can not know the extremes to which a fanatical follower may carry the thought-current of his leader.
— from Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd

Therefore we propose to surrender to the Russians, in the honourable hope that we may be able to effect our escape, sooner or later, and return to fight for Nippon.
— from Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Harry Collingwood