"Unnecessarily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... military combination is comprised in these two fundamental truths. Therefore, all movements that are disconnected or more extended than those of the enemy would be grave faults; so also would the occupation of a position that was too much cut up, or sending out a large detachment unnecessarily. On the contrary, every well-connected, compact system of operations would be wise; so also with central strategic lines, and every strategic position ...
— The Art of War • Baron Henri de Jomini
... the purpose of applying it to the text in which our Lord is represented in the first (or Matthew's) Gospel, and by that alone, as citing Daniel by name. It was this text that so sorely, but I think very unnecessarily, perplexed and gravelled Bentley, who was too profound a scholar and too acute a critic to admit the genuineness of the whole ...
— Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... Arbuthnot was wrong. Mrs. Arbuthnot and the whole Staveley family would have regarded a mutual attachment between Mr. Graham and Madeline as a great family misfortune. The judge was a considerate father to his children, holding that a father's control should never be brought to bear unnecessarily. In looking forward to the future prospects of his sons and daughters it was his theory that they should be free to choose their life's companions for themselves. But nevertheless it could not be agreeable to him that his daughter should fall in love ...
— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope
... never been one to spend unnecessarily on herself," replied Harold, fondly caressing the ...
— Christmas with Grandma Elsie • Martha Finley
... these things," said Kate, "even if that ship carries them. We shall take but food, and shall not unnecessarily despoil them of that. We may be pirates, but we ...
— Kate Bonnet - The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter • Frank R. Stockton
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