Before the tide was out Clairmont got all my belongings on board, and I ordered my supper.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The Evening Scimitar of same date, copied the Commercial 's editorial with these words of comment: Patience under such circumstances is not a virtue.
— from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

So, too, the fruit of the cocoa-nut palm, when the shell lacks the three “eyes” to which we are accustomed, is believed to serve in warfare as a most valuable protection ( pĕlias ) against the bullets of the enemy, and the same may be said in a minor degree of the joints of “solid” bamboo ( buluh tumpat ) which are occasionally found, whilst to a slightly different category belong the comparatively numerous examples of “Tabasheer” (mineral concretions in the wood of certain trees), which are so highly valued by the Malays for talismanic purposes.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

A sinking man who clutches at another and drowns him; or a hungry mother exhausted by feeding her baby, who steals some food; or a man trained to discipline who on duty at the word of command kills a defenseless man—seem less guilty, that is, less free and more subject to the law of necessity, to one who knows the circumstances in which these people were placed, and more free to one who does not know that the man was himself drowning, that the mother was hungry, that the soldier was in the ranks, and so on.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Scarce any article, indeed, in the whole Constitution seems to be rendered more worthy of attention, by the weight of character and the apparent force of argument with which it has been assailed.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The subsistence of the troops will only come into consideration like OTHER GIVEN CIRCUMSTANCES in respect of its results, not as an activity belonging to the combat.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

—Now then, Stephen, he said, you must put your shoulder to the wheel, old chap.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

There were, of course, bodies of mounted Mexicans hovering around to watch our movements and to pick up stragglers, or small bodies of troops, if they ventured too far out.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

Can I use it in this way or can I at least furnish copies to Senator Hitchcock and Mr. Taft?
— from Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him by Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick) Tumulty

Whereas these testimonies, revealing intense and wide-spread convictions of the American people, are reinforced by the friendly observations of De Tocqueville, the remarkable Frenchman to whom our country is under such great and lasting obliga
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 19 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

But when, about half-past nine o’clock, Rabourdin looked at his memorandum he saw at once the effects of the copying process, and all the more readily because he was then considering whether these autographic presses could not be made to do the work of copying clerks.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

And as for the physical factors, if marked variations are explicable at some given period, it is nevertheless evident that neither climate, nor the nature of the soil, nor atmospheric conditions, nor the seasons, nor the temperature of different years could have undergone in the last half-

century such constant and repeated variations as to correspond to those waves of criminality which we shall presently exhibit in almost every nation of Europe.
— from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri

Mahomet was satisfied with the answer to his first question, which he eagerly pressed on the artist: ‘Am I able to cast a cannon capable of throwing a ball or stone of sufficient size to batter the walls of Constantinople?
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes

28 From Belgrade to the walls of Constantinople a line may be measured of six hundred miles: that line was marked with flames and with blood; the horses of the Avars were alternately bathed in the Euxine and the Adriatic; and the Roman pontiff, alarmed by the approach of a more savage enemy, 29 was reduced to cherish the Lombards, as the protectors of Italy.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Edward Gibbon

Surely, he reflected, if safety there were or could be, that safety was with Justine.
— from The Pace That Kills: A Chronicle by Edgar Saltus