"For the first time," says the Annual Register, forgetting or ignorant of the experience of 1693, and remembering only the glories of the later wars, "English merchant-ships were driven to take refuge under foreign flags."
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Now we all of us despise failures that are the result of idleness; so how can we expect God, at the last judgment, to reward us for failing through our ill-will and slothfulness?'
— from Niece Catherine by Mary Hampden

On one of the great chests lay a pair of boxing gloves, on another a quiver of arrows and two unstrung bows, on a third a bridle; a fourth was open and from it protruded a sheaf of those wooden swords which the Romans used for fencing-practice as we use foils.
— from The Unwilling Vestal by Edward Lucas White

For miles beyond the track had been torn up by the rebels in the preceding year, and here and there the rails, twisted by fire, lay in heaps by the roadside, unfit for further use.
— from History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 1862-1865 by Alonzo A. White

We looked back over our shoulders, but could not see the red uniforms for flying débris .
— from Bamboo Tales by Ira L. (Ira Louis) Reeves

In that moment, with calm eyes, and lips firmly pressed together, his thoughts reached upward, far, far upward.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. by Various

The railroads were soon repaired and in working order again; and the Federal cavalry was for the time rendered unfit for further operations.
— from A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke

Now, in all the upper list of battles, probably every man of both armies was under fire, and some of the regiments under fire for half the day; while in the lower list of battles, only fragments of the line were hotly engaged, and the dispute on any point reaching its intensity would be ended in half an hour.
— from Arrows of the Chace, vol. 2/2 being a collection of scattered letters published chiefly in the daily newspapers 1840-1880 by John Ruskin

Under the empire important buildings began to rise up further from the city.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare