It should be borne in mind that this subject, to be appreciated, must be studied, map in hand: this remark is especially true of strategy.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

‘Ah! poetry makes life what light and music do the stage—strip the one of the false embellishments, and the other of its illusions, and what is there real in either to live or care for?’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

For this reason it is always a false step in mathematical science, a step over its brink into the abyss beyond, when we try to reduce its elements to anything not essentially sensible.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The class began to recover its ease, the tension relaxed.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The back-stitching must be done on the article itself, as this renders it easier to do the corners neatly.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

I mean the battle of the Romans in Etruria, that of Antiochus for Coele-Syria, and lastly the treaty between Philip and the Aetolians.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

The Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda , in explaining the ritual, usually limit themselves to the duties of the priest called hotṛi or “reciter” on whom it was incumbent to form the canon ( çastra ) for each particular rite, by selecting from the hymns the verses applicable to it.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Again, forbearing to receive is easier than giving, the case of being too little freehanded with one’s own being commoner than taking that which is not one’s own.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

He is really the same personage; but in this latter version, the Island of Juan Fernandez, in spite of distance and geographical impossibilities, is peopled with savage Caribs; Marimonda is transformed into the simple Friday; history is turned into romance, but this romance is elevated to all the dignity of a philosophical treatise.
— from The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or the Real Robinson Crusoe by M. Xavier

While the count was out of the room, I exchanged the thousand sequins for the fifteen thousand francs in bank notes which Greppi had given me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 20: Milan by Giacomo Casanova

and as I suppose, she paid a heavy price for the use of that coach for an hour, saying her man should drive it to her house and then return it empty to the coachman.
— from Andrew Golding: A Tale of the Great Plague by Annie E. Keeling

The amount of political injustice that resulted is easy to understand, though it is not easy to comprehend how the people stood it.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

His valor, of which they had had a taste, and the wrath that he cherished toward his fellow-citizens gave him reason to expect that they would receive him gladly, since they might hope, thanks to him, to inflict upon the Romans injuries equal to what they had endured, or even greater.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

That this ambition has not been realized, and that Russia was determined to prevent the attempt to revive it, explains the Austro-Hungarian willingness to fight Russia in the summer of 1914 .
— from The New Map of Europe (1911-1914) The Story of the Recent European Diplomatic Crises and Wars and of Europe's Present Catastrophe by Herbert Adams Gibbons

He appeared before the Secretary of the Navy, and stating that he was the man who had removed the figure-head from the "Constitution," said he had brought it along to restore it, exhibiting the grim features tied up in a bandana handkerchief.
— from America, Volume 5 (of 6) by Joel Cook

It is called Tingi by the natives, who apply it to many useful purposes; an infusion of the bark of the root is employed to poison fish, and that of the stem to cure old ulcers.
— from Travels in the Interior of Brazil Principally through the northern provinces, and the gold and diamond districts, during the years 1836-1841 by George Gardner

By this time, the canoe was so near as to render it easy to distinguish countenances and dress, without the aid of the glass—so near, indeed, that a swift-moving boat, like the canoe, might be expected soon to reach the shore.
— from Oak Openings by James Fenimore Cooper

So far from justifying the apprehensions of those who conceive that the front of the Balloon would be disfigured by its compulsory progression through the air, the result is exactly the reverse; the only tendency to derangement of form displaying itself in the part behind , where the rushing in of the atmospheric medium to fill the place of the advancing body (in the nature of an eddy , as it is termed in water), might and no doubt would, to some extent (though perhaps but slightly) affect the figure of that part, in a manner, however, calculated rather to aid than to impair the general design in view, Another error of more universal prevalency, because of a more superficial character, regards the condition of the Balloon as affected by the currents of air, in and through which it might have to be propelled.
— from A Project for Flying: In Earnest at Last! by Robert Hardley