On the contrary, in time of war the regular order of promotion should be suspended, or at least reduced to a third of the promotions, leaving the other two-thirds for brilliant conduct and marked services.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position could not readily share in many of the most important of them.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

But, besides this great purpose, a consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and sure principles.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Here begins the revolution of our political system of government, and I must beg your attention to its natural course and progression.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Then touching on the entry of the councillor, he did not forget “the martial air of our militia;” nor “our most merry village maidens;” nor the “bald-headed old men like patriarchs who were there, and of whom some, the remnants of our phalanxes, still felt their hearts beat at the manly sound of the drums.”
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In snatching the black man from our side, the Republicans, out of pure sympathy doubtless, lest we should be without any "male" compeer in our degradation, 399 leave the innocent Chinaman to comfort and console us.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

We ran to the horses and fumbled at their hobbles; then we coiled the ropes of our picketed saddle-animals, mounted and drove the little band on the run for camp.
— from The War-Trail Fort: Further Adventures of Thomas Fox and Pitamakan by James Willard Schultz

Between two and three o'clock we were tolerably quiet, except from a thundering cannonade; and the enemy had, by that time, got the range of our position so accurately that every shot brought a ticket for somebody's head.
— from Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815 by J. (John) Kincaid

An artist does not argue with himself that he will shun the representation of one particular side of life.
— from George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians by T. Martin Wood

The Swiss people are frugal and inexpensive in their own habits, I believe, plain and simple, and careless of ornament; but they seem to reckon on other people's spending a great deal of money for gewgaws.
— from Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Franky muttered, recognising it as the result of overwhelming physical shock and unnatural mental strain.
— from That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan

“I should have told you that Mrs. Winstone asked the rest of our party,” said Tay.
— from Julia France and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

It is a prevalent mode of religiousness to repent of other people's sins, and to get superfluous merit by showing how others fall short of our attainments.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, June 1899 Volume LV by Various

On this reasoning of our prisoners, strengthened by our propensity to believe them in a matter which so pleasingly flattered our wishes, we resolved to cruise for her some days, and we accordingly spread our ships at the distance of twelve leagues from the coast in such a manner that it was impossible she should pass us unobserved.
— from A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV by Anson, George Anson, Baron