This will not only lessen the call for military establishments, but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The women, who were on the look-out too, brought more ammunition to these intrepid deserters, and they engaged and drove back the dragoons several times.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Indeed its general tenor is directly adverse to such a supposition.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

This condensation is specially important, because it enables the scholar to determine the state of the text in detail at that time.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

His army was strengthened by a numerous reenforcement of veterans; and his march from Constantinople to Hadrianople was conducted with so much military skill, that he prevented the activity of the Barbarians, who designed to occupy the intermediate defiles, and to intercept either the troops themselves, or their convoys of provisions.
— 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

" Thus spoke Minerva daughter of Jove, and Telemachus lost no time in doing as the goddess told him.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

The Rabbins called it "shem hamphorash," that is to say, "the name that is declaratory," and they say that David found it engraved on a stone while digging into the earth.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

We are thus able to learn how these traits arose under the conditions of the neurosis, as a reaction to its demands, and to see features more clearly in this character which could otherwise not have shown up so clearly or at least not to this extent, and which one may therefore designate as latent.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

For there is always a considerable part of morality in the condition of receiving formal respect and acceptance, while yet it is not really sustained by any effective force of public opinion: and the difference between the moralities of any two societies is often more strikingly exhibited in the different emphasis attached to various portions of the moral code in each, than in disagreement as to the rules which the code should include.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

I again repeat, that it does appear to me, on an impartial view of this subject, that the United States are not chargeable with the first infraction of the Treaty of 1783, and that therefore, we are not bound now to enter into a compact which appears to me to be warranted neither by the principles of reciprocity nor justice.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

And I do not know what thing it is that I desire, and the will of Jurgen is a feather in the wind.
— from Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell

Should the liquid be so thick that it is not possible to get it in by means of suction, the lower end of the tube is disconnected, and the syrupy mass worked in through the wide end.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

"Wherever there is life there is danger;" and the danger is probably in proportion to the degree of life.
— from The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends by Anonymous

She struck on the north-west reef of this island during a typhoon.
— from The Wings of the Morning by Louis Tracy

On entering the forecastle I looked around me on the empty hammocks swinging from the deck, and finding one that looked new and clean, took it down and threw the mattress and blankets out of it and folded it up as a piece of canvas.
— from The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Volume 3 of 3 An account of the mutiny of the crew and the loss of the ship when trying to make the Bermudas by William Clark Russell

God is witness that I did all that one man could.
— from French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America by Evelyn Everett-Green

In Isaiah xxiii., Tyre is described as "the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth."
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

"Such is the miraculous country inhabited by those infidel dogs, and the Christians, the beloved children of the holy Catholic Church, inhabit dens, eat black bread, drink brackish water, shiver under a sky frozen in winter and rainy in summer.
— from The Pilgrim's Shell; Or, Fergan the Quarryman: A Tale from the Feudal Times by Eugène Sue

They had not much time, however, for further remark, for they were summoned by their husbands to leave gossipping, and come and assist them in doing all they could towards their comfort.
— from Mabel: A Novel. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Newby, C. J., Mrs.