Twelve years had changed Anne from the blooming, silent, unformed girl of fifteen, to the elegant little woman of seven-and-twenty, with every beauty except bloom, and with manners as consciously right as they were invariably gentle; and twelve years had transformed the fine-looking, well-grown Miss Hamilton, in all the glow of health and confidence of superiority, into a poor, infirm, helpless widow, receiving the visit of her former protegee as a favour; but all that was uncomfortable in the meeting had soon passed away, and left only the interesting charm of remembering former partialities and talking over old times.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

Totila passed the Po, 6112 traversed the Apennine, suspended the important conquest of Ravenna, Florence, and Rome, and marched through the heart of Italy, to form the siege or rather the blockade, of Naples.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

It was the inevitable consequence of rapine and oppression, which extirpated the produce of the present, and the hope of future harvests.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

If every combatant required to be more or less endowed with military genius, then our armies would be very weak; for as it implies a peculiar bent of the intelligent powers, therefore it can only rarely be found where the mental powers of a people are called into requisition and trained in many different ways.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

end of class="poem" In the beautiful and fertile State of Travancore in the extreme south of India, where traffic is conveyed over rivers and canals, the Maharaja assumes every year a hereditary obligation to expiate the sin incurred by wars and the annexation in the distant past of several petty states to Travancore.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Ammianus says: “Tanais inter Caucasias oriens rupes, per sinuosos labitur circumflexus, Asiamque disterminans ab Europa, in stagnis Maeoticis delitescit.”
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

[Pg 252] sure of the possession of one fortified harbor/ or at least of a tongue of land which is convenient to a good anchorage and may be easily strengthened by fortifications, in order that in case of reverse the troops may be re-embarked without hurry and loss.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

For seeing they openly professe deceipt; to admit them into Councell, or Reasoning, were manifest folly.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Mr. W. Chappell, who repeats this statement in his Popular Music of the Olden Time, says that in a MS. of the beginning of the last century, this tune is called 'Old Roger of Coverlay for evermore.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Accordingly, he requested my intervention to obtain for him the early Greenwich observations, then in course of reduction;—which the Astronomer Royal immediately supplied, in the kindest possible manner.
— from A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Augustus De Morgan

Signature of the Augsburg Confession was the indispensable condition of reception.
— from Church History, Volume 2 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

I told her that she ought to rely on me for carrying her through any difficulties, and that I could only recommend fair dealing in the matter.
— from The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the Second by Carlo Gozzi

One gentleman informed me that in consequence of reading “London Labour and the London Poor,” he usually had a little talk with the street-sellers of whom he purchased any trifle; he bought these pen-holders of ten or twelve different women and girls; all of them could answer correctly his inquiry as to the uses of the pens; but only one girl, of fifteen or sixteen, and she hesitatingly, ventured to assert that she could write her own name with the pen she offered for sale.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

It is worthy of notice that, owing, doubtless, to the misreading of some Latin text and to the intelligible confusion of raia or raria , both of which are used to translate "rayfish", with the more familiar rana , Gilles makes the impious Dorchestrians hang frogs—"des raynes ou grenouilles"—to St. Augustine's garments.
— from In Byways of Scottish History by Louis A. Barbé

In a letter written a few days later, Vannes said that, in consequence of rumours having gone abroad that the earl had been poisoned, the Podesta, at his request, had ordered the body to be opened, and examined by physicians, which was accordingly done.—Peter Vannes to the Queen: Venetian MSS.
— from The Reign of Mary Tudor by James Anthony Froude

This intelligence changed, or rather made definite my plan.
— from Seven Wives and Seven Prisons Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. A True Story by L. A. Abbott

In the First Month of 1852, we find him again under exercise of mind for foreign travel; having, this time, to direct his course towards the interesting community of religious persons in Norway, whose principles and practices are the same as those of Friends.
— from Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by John Yeardley

I was paid for the first three quarters of the year IX, but the minister of war tells me in his letter of the 29 Fructidor last, that I can only receive [Pg 201] what is owing to me for a portion of the years VII and VIII in full, inasmuch as the order you have made in my favour says, in so many words, that I am only to receive what the law strictly grants me—that is to say, my salary for two months of active service.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. I, 1802 to 1821 by Alexandre Dumas