44 November 5th, as if to reassure General MacArthur that he and the General understand each other and that the Taft cotemporaneous nonsense is not going to be allowed to interfere with more serious business, Secretary Root, through the Adjutant-General, sends this cable message: Secretary of War directs no instructions from here be allowed interfere or impede progress your military operations which he expects you force to successful conclusion.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

He also had a shield made for him, whereon the whole series of his exploits, beginning with his earliest youth, was painted in exquisite designs.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Moreover, what is far worse, you say that you are resolved to take his two daughters from a gentleman who hath entertained you in his house beyond his means and who, to do you the more honour, hath shown you these twain in a manner naked, thereby attesting how great is the faith he hath in you and that he firmly believeth you to be a king and not a ravening wolf.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Mr. Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention to the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes, yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We possess an unpublished letter from the poet in which he exclaims: “Your letters, my Juliette, constitute my treasure, my casket of jewels, my riches!
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

(From that place barely and by the help of the gods I was set free, and for a happier fate; but my brother was imprisoned at court and his fate was ill-starred above all men who have ever yet lived.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

A little more reserve, a little more caution, in your demeanor, and you will be all that I have ever wished you to be—a credit to your parents and to the school which has educated you!"
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Sir, I will heartily excuse your absence.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

After a long pause he remarks, partly to you, and partly to the knob on the top of his stick, that ‘Yankees are reckoned to be considerable of a go-ahead people too;’ upon which you say ‘Yes,’ and then he says ‘Yes’ again (affirmatively this time); and upon your looking out of window, tells you that behind that hill, and some three miles from the next station, there is a clever town in a smart lo-ca-tion, where he expects you have concluded to stop.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

M. de Kératry, bent with his eighty years, was seated near the stove on an old worm-eaten chair; the chair tottered; the old man shivered.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

"—"Why, that is very singular; for I saw at the ball last night a domino who had exactly your foot and boots.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy

As for the men who have engaged you as their agent, they are fools.
— from With Wolseley to Kumasi: A Tale of the First Ashanti War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

Yes, there’s a great deal I didn’t notice when I was here eight years ago, kicking up my heels....
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The answer of Maternus would have entertained you: he has been defending his art, and but this moment closed an animated speech, that held more of the poetical than the oratorical character.
— from A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence The Works of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Notes, Supplements by Cornelius Tacitus

As I will hereafter explain, you will be entitled to an attorney when the time comes for your trial, when you will have a chance to hear the witnesses offered by the prosecution, introduce your own witnesses, and, under our present law, testify yourself, tell your own story.
— from The Short Constitution by William F. (William Fletcher) Russell

Just think how wonderful his earlier years, wasted in prison, might have been if someone had only tried a little to understand.”
— from The Secret Mark An Adventure Story for Girls by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

Yet however exalted the station you now fill, it is still not equal to [54] the merit of your heroic services through an arduous and dangerous conflict which has embosomed you in the hearts of her citizens.
— from The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen by Simon Wolf

Now, Williams continued, modestly and earnestly: "But Admiral, in saying that this was the first stone thrown, and that this precipitated the war, you have overlooked a circumstance which you are perfectly familiar with, but which has escaped your memory.
— from Roughing It, Part 7. by Mark Twain

When hatched, each young animal develops a small float similar to that of the parent.
— from Facts and fancies in modern science Studies of the relations of science to prevalent speculations and religious belief by Dawson, John William, Sir

Come, my little Tallien, I will give you some sweetmeats, but in return you must be kind and amiable toward Bonaparte; you must not bark so furiously when he enters; you must not snap at his legs when he gives me a kiss; you must not snarl when he inadvertently steps on your toes.
— from Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach