Will whole armies be deployed as skirmishers, or will it not still be necessary to preserve either the formation of lines deployed in two or three ranks, or lines of battalions in columns?
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

[292] Our course we round the circle bent, Still holding speech, of which I nothing say, Until we came where down the pathway went: There found we Plutus, the great enemy.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

For the heretic will still reply, that texts, the literal sense of which is not so much above as directly against all reason, must be understood figuratively, as Herod is a fox, and so forth.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In her style of writing, indeed, no sex appears, for it is like the sense it conveys, strong and clear.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Most of our elderly English painters spend their wicked and wasted lives in poaching upon the domain of the poets, marring their motives by clumsy treatment, and striving to render, by visible form or colour, the marvel of what is invisible, the splendour of what is not seen.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

Here I parted from my daughter Mary (whom I never saw again till I saw her in Dorchester, returned from captivity), and from four little cousins and neighbors, some of which I never saw afterward: the Lord only knows the end of them.
— from Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson

He built a king's house, and raised Clement's church on the spot on which it now stands.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

But God will have regard for his people, and will provide some one, who, if not so valiant as the knights-errant of yore, at least will not be inferior to them in spirit; but God knows what I mean, and I say no more."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Such a set of wretches I never saw."
— from Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island by Julia de Winton

Carlisle Street was designated after the Howards, Earls of Carlisle, a branch of the ducal house of Norfolk, whose family mansion stood on the east side of what is now Soho Square about the middle of the last century.
— from Names: and Their Meaning; A Book for the Curious by Leopold Wagner

He would fain persuade me to return with him to my own tribe of Shoshones, and not go in search of what I never should obtain.
— from Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet by Frederick Marryat

“Faith, and I wint an’ bought a practis’ at onst, havin’ a snig little sum stowed away in the bank,” continued Garry, “the savin’s of me pay for the last five year an’ more, besides that money we all got for salvagin’ the French ship, sure, of which I nivver spint a ha’poth.
— from The Ghost Ship: A Mystery of the Sea by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

The squire of which I now speak was rather a knight of inferior order corresponding to the bachelier ( bas chevalier ) of France.
— from A History of the British Army, Vol. 1 First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War by Fortescue, J. W. (John William), Sir

Verulam : an old British, and then a Roman town, on the site of which is now St. Albans, in Hertfordshire.
— from The History of London by Walter Besant

“May blood flow out of every pore of my body, that my crime may be made manifest to the world; may all or any of these evils overtake me within three days, or may I never stir from the spot on which I now stand, or may the hatsani , or lash of the sky, (lightning,) cut me in two, so that I may be exposed to the derision of the people; or if I should be walking abroad, may I be torn to pieces by either of the four supernaturally endowed lions, or destroyed by poisonous herbs or venomous snakes.
— from Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat In the U. S. Sloop-of-war Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, During the Years 1832-3-4 by Edmund Roberts

May all or any of these evils overtake me within three days, or may I never stir from the spot on which I now stand; or may the lightning cut me in two, so that I may be exposed to the derision of the people; or if I should be walking abroad, may I be torn in pieces by either of the supernaturally endowed lions, or destroyed by poisonous serpents.
— from Siam: Its Government, Manners, Customs, &c. by N. A. (Noah A.) McDonald