The Indians poured in their fire from front and flank, and had so much the advantage of position, that, by a little skill, they might have shot down every man of the English, or compelled [189] them to surrender at discretion, as they were totally unable to extricate themselves, and were entirely destitute of provisions.
— from History of the Indians, of North and South America by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

Flushing hotly, he rose, and “thought he would turn in”; and Dan, who had been discussing education most of the evening, decided to “bottle off a bit of sleep too for next day’s use,” and opened up his swag.
— from We of the Never-Never by Jeannie Gunn

Owing to demoralisation, every movement of troops, every relief, trench digging, bringing batteries into position, either were not carried out at all, or else attended by delays, tremendous efforts or persuasion, and meetings.
— from The Russian Turmoil; Memoirs: Military, Social, and Political by Anton Ivanovich Denikin

The angelic doctor, who was simply a Jacobin, decides that two testicles are " de essentia matrimonii " (of the essence of marriage); in which opinion he is followed by Ricardus, Scotus, Durandus, and Sylvius.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 by Voltaire

Puebla had again tried to please every one by saying that Henry would provide a handsome dotation for the purpose, but when Doña Elvira Manuel, on the eve of the journey to Wales, asked the King [Pg 37] what provision he was going to make, he feigned the utmost surprise at the question.
— from The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

And day by day each man of these ever drives one of the flock to the wooers, whichsoever seems the best of the fatted goats.
— from The Odyssey of Homer, Done into English Prose by Homer

In the fury of party zeal, the democrats excused many of the excesses of the French Revolution, in respect of its tendency; while the other party, in condemning the whole Revolution, both root and branch, forgot that, after all, the struggle of the French nation to recover their liberty, was, in its commencement, not only justifiable, but laudable.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume I. by Walter Scott