The evidence seems to show that even for its own special ends such a mode of war is inconclusive, worrying but not deadly; it might almost be said that it causes needless suffering.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Now that one can talk to you, I should like to impress upon you that it is essential to avoid the elementary, so to speak, fundamental causes tending to produce your morbid condition: in that case you will be cured, if not, it will go from bad to worse.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Some say that he was meditating a voyage thence into the Euxine Sea, to Scythia and the Lake Maeotis ( i.e. the Sea of Azov); while others assert that he intended to go to Sicily and the Iapygian Cape, 829 for the fame of the Romans spreading far and wide was now exciting his jealousy.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Frog eggs, plants, micro-organisms and insects were placed in orbit to enable scientists to study the combined effects of weightlessness, artificially produced radiation, and the absence of the normal day-night cycle on these organisms.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy

" Archer stared at the speaker so blankly that he repeated in still more apologetic accents: "It'll be exactly the same, sir, I do assure you—" and May's eager voice broke out, covering the embarrassed silence: "The same as Rhinebeck?
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

On a pedestal in the centre of the edifice stood the statue of the divinity to whom the temple was dedicated, surrounded by images of other gods, all of which were fenced off by rails.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

'Well, I can spare the evening,' said the schoolmaster.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

ii., p. 139] The Emperor Augustus,—[This story is taken from Seneca, De Clementia, i. 9.]—being in Gaul, had certain information of a conspiracy L. Cinna was contriving against him; he therefore resolved to make him an example; and, to that end, sent to summon his friends to meet the next morning in counsel.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

This, albeit it sounds cruel, need not inflict the slightest injury—since the horse at once obeys the instinct of alarm and pain, and never forgets the experience; so that straw, without the match, will always be sufficient for the future.
— from Road Scrapings: Coaches and Coaching by M. E. (Martin E.) Haworth

This would have been still more decisive, had it not been for the courage of certain ecclesiastics, eight in number—four of them Franciscans, and four of the Society of Jesus—who, as the troops gave way, threw themselves into the thick of the fight, and by their example shamed the soldiers into making a more determined resistance.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second King of Spain, Vol. 3 And Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by William Hickling Prescott

When lights along passageways of the ship had been lowered and feet no longer clattered on the decks, when only the thud of the engines sounded, the swish of waters and the sigh of sleepers, then he believed she approached him.
— from Slaves of Freedom by Coningsby Dawson

" "Why don't you cure him up?" demanded the envoy, sharply, "the swamp fever is nothing if it's treated right.
— from The Boy Chums in the Forest; Or, Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades by Wilmer M. (Wilmer Mateo) Ely

Under the pretense of pastime, most of the crew now betook themselves to the woods, and there plotted to return at seven in the evening, seize the ship, force Phips and eight faithful men on shore, leave them there to perish, and themselves sail away on a piratical cruise.
— from St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 by Various

Joan was distrait again that day, her eyes fixed often in dreamy speculation as her teacher explained something that she found hard, against her wonted aptness, to understand.
— from The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

For instance, a young man was enticed into this sink of iniquity, when he was tempted to throw on the table a five-franc piece; he won, and repeated the experiment several times successfully, until luck turned against him, and he lost everything he had.
— from The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 2 (of 2) by Andrew Steinmetz