The move in itself is a very strong attacking move, but it is isolated, and there is no effective continuation.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

If he had not been grown up she would certainly have got angry and stormed at him, but as he was a very stout, adult man at whom she could not storm, she only shrugged her shoulders half-perceptibly and said: "Just as you please."
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I this time saw Paris in as favorable a point of view as it had appeared to me in an unfavorable one at my first journey; not that my ideas of its brilliancy arose from the splendor of my lodgings; for in consequence of an address given me by M. Bordes, I resided at the Hotel St. Quentin, Rue des Cordiers, near the Sorbonne; a vile street, a miserable hotel, and a wretched apartment: but nevertheless a house in which several men of merit, such as Gresset, Bordes, Abbe Malby, Condillac, and several others, of whom unfortunately I found not one, had taken up their quarters; but I there met with M. Bonnefond, a man unacquainted with the world, lame, litigious, and who affected to be a purist.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

These orators are recommending their candidates with various success, as may be seen from the bearing of the brother gentlemen.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

Otherwise she must have believed them the most hopeless assortment of reprobates and ne'er-do-wells in the world, with veritable slaves and martyrs for wives.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

It was fully exposed to the Eastern sun, but this was not yet sufficiently high to drop its light right from above, and thus to produce that deadly effect of tropical mid-day, where the shadows instead of modelling out the details, blur every vertical surface and make everything dull and formless.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Very soon after Mr. Smith sent for a hackney-coach.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

The bounder becomes the real proprietor of the mine, and may either work it himself, or give it in lease to another, without the consent of the owner of the land, to whom, however, a very small acknowledgment must be paid upon working it.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Compound Fractures The edges of a broken bone are very sharp and may cut through the skin at the time of an injury, but more often afterward, if the injured person moves about or if the splints are not well applied so as to prevent movement at the point where the bone is broken.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

And this lad was very stupid and microcephalic, but according to medico-legal opinion, capable of distinguishing between right and wrong.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Queen Victoria sent a message of sympathy to which Miss Nightingale replied with particulars of the last hours such as Her Majesty was known to like, and she asked leave to address a letter to the Empress of India on the condition of that country.
— from The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2 by Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir

[Pg 183] on the under sides of the leaves of the cowslip ( Primula veris ), sometimes as many as ten on one leaf, but as a rule there will only be one or two on a plant.
— from The Butterflies of the British Isles by Richard South

great boates vnder his conduct, some laden with victuals, souldiers, and munition: and other some with merchandise, departed altogether the said 19.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Richard Hakluyt

The very silence and mystery which inwrap the place have a tendency to exalt the soul; and although doubts may arise in regard to some of the traditions, and incredulity may condemn others as simply mythical, faith so often becomes sight, and the essence of faith is so triumphant everywhere, as to make us feel, with the great moralist, that "that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

"Wär ein verständiger Sinn auch mir doch beschieden gewesen!
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson

One of these is by Jean Faron, Perron, or Feron (as the name is variously spelled), a monk of the order of St. Dominic, of whom the notices are exceedingly scanty.
— from Game and Playe of the Chesse A Verbatim Reprint of the First Edition, 1474 by Jacobus, de Cessolis, active 1288-1322

We found George and all well, George very steady and much respected.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge