That in fertile and populous regions not hostile, an army of one hundred to one hundred and twenty thousand men, when so far distant from the enemy as to be able safely to recover a considerable extent of country, may draw its resources from it, during the time occupied by any single operation.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Belyve, the elder bairns come drapping in, At service out, amang the farmers roun'; Some ca' the pleugh, some herd, some tentie rin A cannie errand to a neibor town: Their eldest hope, their Jenny, woman-grown, In youthfu' bloom-love sparkling in her e'e— Comes hame, perhaps to shew a braw new gown, Or deposite her sair-won penny-fee, To help her parents dear, if they in hardship be.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Still, these risks are considerable enough.
— from The Gay Lord Quex: A Comedy in Four Acts by Arthur Wing Pinero

I was fortunate to find Harold Smith, the Royal Automobile Club Engineer, one day at Boulogne, where he was superintending the installation of a first-class motor repair plant for the Red Cross Ambulances.
— from With Cavalry in 1915 The British Trooper in the Trench Line, Through the Second Battle of Ypres by Frederic Coleman

‘Time having been allowed for a slight confusion, occasioned by the falling down of the greater part of the platforms, to subside, the president called on one of the secretaries to read a communication entitled, “Some remarks on the industrious fleas, with considerations on the importance of establishing infant-schools among that numerous class of society; of directing their industry to useful and practical ends; and of applying the surplus fruits thereof, towards providing for them a comfortable and respectable maintenance in their old age.”
— from Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People by Charles Dickens

I cannot take up the trade of a footpad, though disbanded soldiers turned robbers are common enough in Spain.
— from By England's Aid; Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Meanwhile, the LVTs of Wave One struck the reef and crawled effortlessly over it, commencing their final run to the beach.
— from Across the Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa by Joseph H. Alexander

The “neolithic people” constructed pile-dwellings near lakesides, in Switzerland, France, Italy, Ireland; they buried their dead under dolmens, and raised other megalithic monuments (upright stones, the rows at Carnac, etc.), of which the meaning has not yet been cleared up.
— from The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography by Joseph Deniker

If so, the results are clear enough.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, No. 411, January 1850 by Various

Under the deference, too, Wogan seemed to remark a certain excitement.
— from Clementina by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

Look at the names of the authors of all of the books and you will see the reason: Alger, Cooper, Ellis, Henty, Kingston, Optic, Reid, Etc.
— from Only One Love; or, Who Was the Heir by Charles Garvice