Camps, by which we mean every disposition of troops in concentrated, therefore in battle order, in contradistinction to cantonments or quarters, are a state of rest, therefore of restoration; but they are at the same time also the strategic appointment of a battle on the spot, chosen; and by the manner in which they are taken up they contain the fundamental lines of the battle, a condition from which every defensive battle starts; they are therefore essential parts of both strategy and tactics.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

The only case in which a civil war could arise is, if the army should divide itself into two factions, the one raising the standard of rebellion, the other remaining true to its allegiance.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The more notable since, on reference to official record, he found the Knight from Sheffield was born in the United States, and descended from the Pilgrim Fathers.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, May 18th, 1895 by Various

The streaks of red to our right became brighter and brighter, and gleamed through the huge, dark trunks of the cypress-trees.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

The house seemed to consist of a series of rooms thrown, or rather blown, together by some force of nature rather than by formal design of builder or carpenter.
— from Judith of the Plains by Marie Manning

Here Katherine, with the unconscious tact of a sensitive woman, feeling how terrible it must be to find one's continued existence a source of regret to others, rose and held out her hand.
— from A Crooked Path: A Novel by Mrs. Alexander

In the superb collection of minerals of the British Museum, there is a magnificent specimen of red tourmaline , or rubellite , which has been valued at 1000 l. sterling.
— from Useful Knowledge: Volume 1. Minerals Or, a familiar account of the various productions of nature by William Bingley

Students and teachers who need other material on specific aspects of nuclear science, or references to other reading material, may also write to the Oak Ridge address.
— from Radioisotopes in Medicine by Earl W. Phelan

Before the end of the month no one, unless, like the ostrich, he buried his eyes in the sand and considered that because he saw nothing there was nothing to see, had any real hope of a successful issue to the Dardanelles expedition, and it was with an aching sense of regret that one recalled the brave days when the Queen Elizabeth went thundering into the Straits, and we were told that but a mile or two divided us from victory.
— from Up and Down by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Suppose we should only repeal the obnoxious resolution, and direct such a reference to be made upon its face?
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

They were solid, real, secure; they were a symbol of reality, the old reality a man could understand.
— from Sense from Thought Divide by Mark Clifton