At the word of command, fifteen thousand men move from the shelter of the woods and appear upon the open plain, moving in solid phalanx,—close, compact, shoulder to shoulder, to capture, by a desperate charge, the batteries upon the hillside.
— from Following the Flag, from August 1861 to November 1862, with the Army of the Potomac by Charles Carleton Coffin

[20] Storm: to the Theme of Polyphemus Mortal I stand upon the lifeless hills That jut their craggèd bones against the sky: I crawl upon their naked ebony, And toil across the scars of Titan ills Dealt by the weaponing of gods and devils: I climb their uppermost deserted levels, And see how Heaven glowers his one eye Blood-red and black-browed in the sullen sky, While all his face is livid as a corpse And wicked as a snake’s: see how he warps His sultry beam across the misted sea, As if he grudged its darkling ministry.
— from Gipsy-Night, and Other Poems by Richard Arthur Warren Hughes

Yet it was a dreamy and sense-compelling life that she led on the yacht, surrounded with every luxury she had ever heard of, and constantly waited on by the only clever man she had ever really talked with, excepting the old Persian merchant in Stamboul.
— from The Diva's Ruby by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

There will be no taint of Prussian militarism in such a system.
— from My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

The greater speed obtained in development work, the greater tonnage obtained per man in stoping, with consequent reduction in the number of men employed, and in reduction of superintendence and general charges are indirect advantages for machine-drilling not to be overlooked.
— from Principles of Mining: Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover

In fact, your kindness is the one pleasant memory I shall carry away with me.
— from Delilah of the Snows by Harold Bindloss

The Thing-men were silent, and being urged, on a promise of perfect impunity, to state their sentiments, they left the decision to the king, who adjudged himself to pay 69 talents of gold, more than nine times the ordinary pecuniary mulct in such a case.
— from Coronation Anecdotes by Giles Gossip

In times of pestilence missionaries in Syria have sometimes found whole villages paralyzed with despair.
— from Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Frank F. (Frank Field) Ellinwood

There are plenty of tins of preserved meat in store?”
— from Steve Young by George Manville Fenn

Many of them are paying much higher prices per piece than are required to secure the maximum product while owing to a bad system, lack of exact knowledge of the time required to do work, and mutual suspicion and misunderstanding between employers and men, the output per man is so small that the men receive little if any more than average wages, both sides being evidently the losers thereby.
— from Shop Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor