The war of the Revolution was at once a war of opinion, a national war, and a civil war,—while, if the first war in Spain in 1808 was thoroughly a national war, that of 1823 was a partial struggle of opinions without the element of nationality; and hence the enormous difference in the results.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

I only heard the following circumstance: Ascanio Pogomas, or Passano, had been released at the end of November, and had then been embarked on a felucca bound for Toulon.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Archbishop Winchelsey and the Earls of Norfolk and Hereford took the lead in protesting against the king's late arbitrary action, and by their council a recapitulation of the Great Charter was drawn up, with certain articles added at the end which expressly stipulated that the king should never raise any tax or impost without the consent of lords and commons in Parliament assembled—so that such an exaction as the late mal-tolt would be in future illegal.
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman

There they were within the borders of the empire of Nebuchadnezzar, and he thought he had nothing more to fear.
— from The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 by Louis Ginzberg

Eh, Pierrett?" "You see," he said, addressing me to the exclusion of Nance, as he turned Rogue onto the pasture, "I'm the lone male among all of these females.
— from The Golden Road by Frank Waller Allen

On the 7th, Mrs. Whynniard confirmed Mrs. Bright’s statement, and also stated that, a year earlier, in March 1604, ‘Mr. Percy began to labour very earnestly with this examinate and her husband to have the lodging by the Parliament House, which one Mr. Henry Ferris, of Warwickshire, had long held before, and having obtained the said Mr. Ferris’s good will to part from it after long suit by himself and great entreaty of Mr. Carleton, Mr. Epsley, [33] and other gentlemen belonging to the Earl of Northumberland, affirming him to be a very honest gentleman, and that they could not have a better tenant, her husband and she were contented to let him have the said lodging at the same rent Mr. Ferris paid for it.’
— from What Gunpowder Plot Was by Samuel Rawson Gardiner

The fact was, that the creek had taken a sudden bend to the eastward of N. and had thus thrown them out.
— from Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume I by Charles Sturt

But he didn't think of these things, except of Napoleon, as he trudged along.
— from The Boy Scouts In Russia by John Blaine

What was stranger still, when the bobolink was well-versed in such matters, his memory was so unreliable that he forgot how to eat over night and had to be taught all over again for several mornings, nor would he swallow till the egg [Pg 223] or cracker was thrust clear down his throat.
— from Birds and All Nature, Vol. 6, No. 5, December 1899 Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

With his quick shrewdness, Roger had seized upon a fact that was, later, clear enough to every one, namely, as he told Master Simon, “that New England’s prosperity would come more from her ship-captains than her farmers.”
— from Master Simon's Garden: A Story by Cornelia Meigs