The French had improved the leisure which our military commander had allowed them; and before Lord Hood commenced his operations, he had the mortification of seeing that the enemy were every day erecting new works, strengthening old ones, and rendering the attempt more difficult.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

It was credibly reported, that the emperor was extremely desirous of furnishing him with living men to tear and devour.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

[302] "confirm in general the conclusion reached by all previous workers that caffein stimulates the capacity for muscular work; and it is clear that this increase is not due to the various psychical factors of interest, sensory stimulation, and suggestion, which the experiments were especially designed to exclude.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The alternations of hope and despair, the endless watching each day for the letter that never came—that might never come—the newspaper tales of ill-usage of prisoners—the bitter wonder as to Jem's wound—all were increasingly hard to bear.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The sailor concocted something which he introduced between the lips of the engineer, who eagerly drinking it opened his eyes.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

This was an untruth, but She was unconscious of its falsehood: She knew not the nature of her sentiments for Lorenzo; and never having seen him since his first visit to Elvira, with every day his Image grew less feebly impressed upon her bosom.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Comparing the two agencies, it may be said that in every-day life, the sorcerer is by far the most feared and is most frequently believed to be at work; while the mulukwausi enter upon the scene at certain dramatic moments, such as the presence of death, a catastrophe on land, and more especially at sea; but then, they enter with even deadlier weapons than the bwaga’u .
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

This renders a full display of the principal defects of the Confederation necessary, in order to show that the evils we experience do not proceed from minute or partial imperfections, but from fundamental errors in the structure of the building, which cannot be amended otherwise than by an alteration in the first principles and main pillars of the fabric.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

220 Aleander, indeed, boasts that Eck was entirely devoted to him, and that he had been able to draft the question which Eck put to Luther during the first audience.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 1 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay

Day after day, for nearly a month, there were speeches of a similar kind, growing more intense in their emotion with each day.
— from Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him by Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick) Tumulty

When the caravan entered this desert the earth was entirely dry, and, the pioneers mistaking their road, wandered during several days exposed to all the horrors of a febrile thirst, under a burning sun.
— from Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet by Frederick Marryat

And you can't pay for a thing like that even with every drop of your blood.
— from Their Son; The Necklace by Eduardo Zamacois

The expedition was especially directed against William of Aumale, Stephen's Earl of Yorkshire, and he was compelled to surrender a part of his spoils including the strong castle of Scarborough.
— from The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) by George Burton Adams

(2) A scheme to allow up to eight weeks extra during which the older children may be employed on the land, managers to be informed of the number of attendances required as in scheme one.
— from Our Schools in War Time—and After by Arthur D. (Arthur Davis) Dean

So, without any interference with the spiritual of any law that ever was, either divine or human, we have a better covenant, or testament, than the old testament; one that is established upon better promises, which contains “A new and living way into the Holiest,” which Paul says, “Is heaven itself.”
— from The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, May, 1880 by Various

Calvin himself), not any of them from the earlier work entitled ‘De Trinitatis Erroribus,’ the printing of which and its presumed influence in troubling the Churches of Germany, infecting the world with heresy and causing many to lose their souls, being nevertheless, as we see, the first item in the list of its author’s delinquencies.
— from Servetus and Calvin A Study of an Important Epoch in the Early History of the Reformation by Robert Willis

Dr. Pringle has very justly recommended the Digging of Deep Pits for Privies in Camp, and covering the Excrements with Earth daily
— from An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Donald Monro

Then, I think, the Einsatzgruppe was entirely disbanded, Bierkamp went into the Government General and took a large number of his men with him.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 4 by Various