The audience cannot strike back through a radio set; the enemy reader cannot throw a leaflet back at the bomber which has dropped it on him.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Cneius Domitius was sent to discover the nature of the ground, and on what side the enemies’ rampart could be approached; after he returned with a full account of every particular, it was resolved that the camp should next day be moved nearer to the enemy.
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy

There were houses on only one side of the street and most of those were tumbling down under the weight of the sand that each rain carried down the hillside.
— from The Adopting of Rosa Marie (A Sequel to Dandelion Cottage) by Carroll Watson Rankin

The first was “for the better regulation of the Militia;” the second, respecting the appointment of town officers; the third, having respect to assessments and rates, and payment of assembly-men; the fourth, about highways; the fifth, concerning marriage; sixth, of courts of Quarter Sessions within the several districts; the seventh, a most important one—​an everlasting one of honor, “to prevent the further introduction of slaves,” and to limit the time of servitude of those in slavery; the eighth, respecting courts of Probate; ninth, to establish regulations about duties between Upper and Lower Canada; tenth, for paying salaries of officers of Legislative Council and Assembly; eleventh, to encourage the destruction of wolves and bears; twelfth, returning officers of the several counties; thirteenth, also about officers, and taxing wine and spirituous liquors.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

The principle that holiness is a manifestation of love, or a form of benevolence, leads to the conclusions that happiness is the only good, and the only end; that law is a mere expedient for the securing of happiness; that penalty is simply deterrent or reformatory in its aim; that no atonement needs to be offered to God for human sin; that eternal retribution cannot be vindicated, since there is no hope of reform.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

He keeps up from sixty to eighty riding camels, with a specially selected staff of postmen; and these he despatches to different parts of his Empire with orders and instructions.
— from Fire and Sword in the Sudan A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895 by Slatin, Rudolf Carl, Freiherr von

[253] Governor Winthrop had five daughters and two sons, the elder resided chiefly in Connecticut and the younger in Massachusetts, generally known as, VI, Wait Still Winthrop or Wait Winthrop, born in Boston, Feb. 27, 1642, died Nov. 7, 1717.
— from The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution by James Henry Stark

From his soul the eternal rebel cry of the transgressor went up: "Ah, I must live!"
— from The Salamander by Owen Johnson

I’ve given you the main idea of the thing; and a German doctor says that early rising causes insanity.
— from Mike by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse