There the allies had three several objectives, at each of which England stood strictly upon the defensive.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

You don’t know how terrible they are, how terrible and how unjust.
— from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

”—“I hope so too,” answered Honour: “there is some difference in our ages, and—I think in our persons.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

There are hopes, that by this means we may at last arrive at our proposed end; though to tell the truth, this new-discovered relation of a constant conjunction seems to advance us but very little in our way.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

He loves her not a bit the worse, and I am certain would run any man through the body that was to abuse her; therefore I won't abuse her, for my part.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

It is said that the Coans obtained, as a compensation for the loss of this painting, an abatement, amounting to a hundred talents, of their usual tribute.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

The "Life" of Lincoln had been begun, completed, and published hand in hand with the "History" of Jefferson and Madison, so that between them they had written nearly all the American history there was to write.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

December 17th, Mr. Philpot received intimation that he was to die next day, and the next morning about eight o'clock, he joyfully met the sheriffs, who were [235] to attend him to the place of execution.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Sigmund The nine eldest sons were equally unsuccessful; but when Sigmund, the tenth and youngest, laid his firm young hand upon the hilt, the sword yielded easily to [ 255 ] his touch, and he triumphantly drew it out as though it had merely been sheathed in its scabbard.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

And after being a long time, he knew not how long, with the goblin, the Lady of the Wood, he looked one morning as the sun was rising upon the half of the ring, and he bethought him to place it in the most precious place he could, and he resolved to put it under his eyelid; and as he was endeavouring to do so, he could see a man in white apparel, and mounted on a snow-white horse, coming towards him, and that person asked him what he did there; and he told him that he was cherishing an afflicting remembrance of his wife Angharad.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

[135] There is too remarkable a similarity in this to Campbell’s lines:— ’Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountains in their azure hue: to allow one to pass it over without pointing it out.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Their works drop groundward, but themselves, I know, Reach many a time a heaven that's shut to me, Enter and take their place there sure enough, Though they come back and cannot tell the world.
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

In July, 1688, Trevor was sworn of the Privy Council; but William of Orange soon after landing, with characteristic meanness he held aloof, but when James returned after his first flight, imagining a reaction was come, declared in his favour; his hopes proved transitory, and he therefore joined the High Tories, who wished to make William Regent only.
— from The Memorials of the Hamlet of Knightsbridge with Notices of its Immediate Neighbourhood by Henry George Davis

Barclay fought the Detroit exceedingly well, her guns being most excellently aimed, though they actually had to be discharged by flashing pistols at the touchholes, so deficient was the ship’s equipment.
— from The Great Lakes The Vessels That Plough Them: Their Owners, Their Sailors, and Their Cargoes, Together with a Brief History of Our Inland Seas by James Oliver Curwood

They are, however, the foundation of the dream fabric; this part of the dream work is, as we already know, the second most constant, and for single dream elements we have already learned to know "plastic word representation."
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

No; he won't listen to an old woman like me; and, as for friends to advise him, the only one of them that has darkened our doors is a scamp who had better have kept away.
— from Blind Love by Wilkie Collins

Men like that do not give away chances, and he would probably pay for three months' board for the child at a time, so as to avoid having to make the journey oftener, however confident he might be that he was not watched."
— from The Lost Heir by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

"Ah! let them think I am the Queen," she said to those around her, "that she may have time to escape."
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

I was up on the table and half through the hole before the other fellows had a chance to object, so they had to go to the back window.
— from Mark Tidd in the Backwoods by Clarence Budington Kelland