At eleven P.M. of the 19th the French admiral estimated his position to be seventy miles southwest by west from Belle Isle; [101] and the wind springing up fresh from the westward, he stood for it under short sail, the wind continuing to increase and hauling to west-northwest.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Perhaps there was a more real torture in her first unattended footsteps from the threshold of the prison, than even in the procession and spectacle that have been described, where she was made the common infamy, at which all mankind was summoned to point its finger.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

THE FORGOTTEN DREAM Ere one ruddy streak of light Glimmer'd o'er the distant height, Kindling with its living beam Frowning wood and cold grey stream, I awoke with sudden start, Clammy brow and beating heart, Trembling limbs, convulsed and chill, Conscious of some mighty ill; Yet unable to recall Sights that did my sense appal; Sounds that thrill'd my sleeping ear With unutterable fear; Forms that to my sleeping eye Presented some strange phantasy— Shadowy, spectral, and sublime, That glance upon the sons of time At moments when the mind, o'erwrought, Yields reason to mysterious thought, And night and solitude in vain Bind the free spirit in their chain.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

This excited a very among great tumult among the Jews when it was day; for those that were near them were astonished at the sight of them, as indications that their laws were trodden under foot; for those laws do not permit any sort of image to be brought into the city.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Any undergraduate from fifteen to thirty.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

What method to use for file transfers depends on the source host and the type of mailbox computer that you are using.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

In this part of the building, faggots of firewood are seen piled up from floor to roof, and secured in their place by loops of rattan.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

"Now, what sent you here," he said—"here into the Street of the Four Winds, and up five flights to the very door where you would be welcome?
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Earth, cast up fountains from thy 294 entrails, And wet thy cheeks for their untimely deaths; Shake with their weight in sign of fear and grief!
— from Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe

Suppose the yawning gulf bridged with planks or filled in with fascines, and the ram brought into position, under fire from the loops of the projecting towers of the gate as well as from the neighbouring battlements, then the bridge itself forms an outer door which must first be battered down.
— from Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition by Edward Lewes Cutts

It is not from mere individual and unpraiseworthy fondness for the paradox that we subvert current views by defending the maxim "The end sanctifies the means," but from a consistent application of the science of philosophy.
— from The Positive Outcome of Philosophy The Nature of Human Brain Work. Letters on Logic. by Joseph Dietzgen

He had worked well, confronted danger cheerfully; he had atoned, in his untutored fashion, for the wrongs he had taken a part in—besides, the fellowship of peril was a tie upon us all, not to be sundered without a pang, which our hearts never would have felt had fate dealt otherwise with us.
— from The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Volume 3 of 3 An account of the mutiny of the crew and the loss of the ship when trying to make the Bermudas by William Clark Russell

This hay was put into a hut and never used for feeding the cattle but for bedding for the pigs.
— from Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Katherine Mary Barrow

The fugitives must struggle without using firearms, for they could not now be far from the Tartar posts.
— from Michael Strogoff; Or, The Courier of the Czar by Jules Verne

Some maintain that it roots up food from the bottom of the sea with this horn; others, that it probes the clefts and fissures of the floating ice with it, to drive out the small fish, which are said to be its prey, and which instinctively take shelter there from their pursuers.
— from Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal Or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 by Sherard Osborn

McClellan's troops had scarcely recovered breath after their retreat from before Richmond when Lee, leaving his entrenchments, boldly threw himself forward and met Pope and the Union forces, face to face on the old battle-ground of Manassas.
— from Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens

This is used for filling the separator with water.
— from Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight, Parts I and II Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Volume 27 Number 3, Publication 1948, 1911 by Charles M. (Charles Matthews) Manly

It was the third battle which the troops had fought within the week, they were under fire for ten or twelve hours, were waterless under a tropical sun, and weak from want of food.
— from The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle