You stood the torture and refused to confess; which shows plain enough to even the dullest understanding that you had nothing to confess—” “I, my lord?
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

no very decided unwillingness to yield to a show of force, which the pretext of prudence would enable them to justify.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

You can sit, with your knees drawn up to your chin and your arms clasped around them, but you are bound to turn over presently, because you are top-heavy in that position.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

When warned not to despise an enemy who could command the services of such men as Hsieh An and Huan Ch`ung, he boastfully replied: "I have the population of eight provinces at my back, infantry and horsemen to the number of one million; why, they could dam up the Yangtsze River itself by merely throwing their whips into the stream.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

On the 26th of May I sent Blair's division up the Yazoo to drive out a force of the enemy supposed to be between the Big Black and the Yazoo.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Everybody is so sleepy, tired, and done up that you can’t get any sense out of them.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

After the condescending surprise, nonrecognition, and praise, from those who were not themselves dressed up, the young people decided that their costumes were so good that they ought to be shown elsewhere.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"Divine union," the Yogavatar proclaimed, "is possible through self-effort, and is not dependent on theological beliefs or on the arbitrary will of a Cosmic Dictator.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Her safety was ransomed with three hundred thousand pieces of gold; but the throne of the successors of Alexander, the seat of the Roman government of the East, which had been decorated by Cæsar with the titles of free, and holy, and inviolate was degraded under the yoke of the caliphs to the secondary rank of a provincial town.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Nía na ang ímung dugtung ug tinái, Your wife is here. -in-an(→) n place two things are joined.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

That all arms and public stores shall be delivered up to you, but that the usual indulgence of side arms to officers and of retaining private property shall be granted to officers and soldiers; and the interests of individuals in civil capacities, and connected with us, shall be attended to.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

The safety of these boats, their crews, and thousands of passengers absolutely depends upon these youngsters, who in wind and rain, sunshine or storm, are compelled to be at their posts for many hours daily.
— from Harper's Young People, December 7, 1880 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

Although from falsehood I did thee restrain With all my power, and paid thee honour due, Ungrateful tongue; yet never did accrue Honour from thee, but shame, and fierce disdain: Most art thou cold, when most I want the strain Thy aid should lend while I for pity sue; And all thy utterance is imperfect too, When thou dost speak, and as the dreamer's vain.
— from The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca

At 84° 38´ a lead in the pack stopped the way for six days until the young ice was thick enough to bear, and forty miles further north the vanguard drifted east some seventy miles during a storm for another six days.
— from Round About the North Pole by W. J. (William John) Gordon

Indeed, the Mexican had suddenly come to see that he was absolutely dependent upon the young Americans if he hoped to sell his mine in the near future.
— from The Young Engineers in Mexico; Or, Fighting the Mine Swindlers by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

In the first place, know that thou wast one of them by nature, for all by nature are under that covenant; but set the case that thou art to this day under that, yet let me tell thee, in the first place, there are hopes for thee; for there is a gap open, a way made for souls to come from under the Covenant of Works, by Christ, "for He hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us" and you (Eph 2:14).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

The recruiting company continued being occupied with its peace duties until the year 1831, when the Barra War broke out.
— from The History of the First West India Regiment by A. B. (Alfred Burdon) Ellis