but I think, upon the whole, it's better than this; at any rate, it's near a tobacconist's," he added, puffing resignedly at an execrable cigar procured from the landlord of the Sun Inn. George Talboys, who had only consented to the Essex expedition in passive submission to his friend, was by no means inclined to object to their immediate return to London.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

It is now recognized as an energetic cardiac poison, comparable with strophanthus, destined to play [ 166 ] an important part in therapeutics.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

His frequent, and, indeed, bitter experiences had taught him long ago that every affair of that kind, at first a divine diversion, a delicious smooth adventure, is in the end a source of worry for a decent man, especially for men like those at Moscow who are slow to move, irresolute, domesticated, for it becomes at last an acute and extraordinary complicated problem and a nuisance.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

So we went all in a body; and the meagre old maid-servant, that opened the door, ushered us into an apartment such as Rose had described to me as the scene of her first introduction to Mrs. Graham, a tolerably spacious and lofty room, but obscurely lighted by the old-fashioned windows, the ceiling, panels, and chimney-piece of grim black oak—the latter elaborately but not very tastefully carved,—with tables and chairs to match, an old bookcase on one side of the fire-place, stocked with a motley assemblage of books, and an elderly cabinet piano on the other.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Non invenitur cura, nisi regimen connexionis inter eos, secundum modum promissionis, et legis, et sic vidimus ad carnem restitutum, qui jam venerat ad arofactionem; evanuit cura postquam sensit, &c. 5834 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[A; ab] weed or clean the area around each coconut plant.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Relative subjunctive sentences are sometimes coordinated by et or sed , with a substantive, adjective, or participle: as, audāx et coetūs possit quae ferre virōrum , J. 6, 399, a brazen minx, and one quite capable of facing crowds of men .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

et Malabar nigri, aeque distantes ab Aequatore, eodemque coeli parallelo: sed hoc magis mirari quis possit, in tota America nusquam nigros inveniri, praeter paucos in loco Quareno illis dicto: quae hujus coloris causa efficiens, coelive an terrae qualitas, an soli proprietas, aut ipsorum hominum innata ratio, aut omnia?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Ad Deum confugiamus, et peccatis veniam precemur, inde ad amicos, et cui plurimum tribuimus, nos patefaciamus totos, et animi vulnus quo affligimur: nihil ad reficiendum animum efficacius.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It may be said that all Africa, except certain points encroached on by the Aryans, Australia, and a good half part of America, are almost in the prehistoric state, or at best in the state of the great Asiatic empires of the earliest historic epochs.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

Some five hundred feet beneath the surface of the sea he sat doubled up in his place, staring at an ever changing panorama.
— from Sign of the Green Arrow A Mystery Story by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

He was much in the company of Clem Arkwright, and enjoyed certain pleasures of the town, to which Arkwright had introduced him.
— from Justin Wingate, Ranchman by John Harvey Whitson

From time to time the hum of a motor-car swelled and diminished to its last faint vibrations on the distant road; and as each car passed Jenny stiffened at her post.
— from The Summons by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

But, on the whole, and setting aside as exceptional certain periods of retrogression, such as the decline of the Roman Empire, the evolution of society seems to be attended by the progress of morality, and specially by the amelioration of social relations, whether between individuals, families, or states.
— from Progressive Morality: An Essay in Ethics by Thomas Fowler

They were for adopting an exceedingly cautious policy.
— from Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective by Andrew Forrester

Estimate of the levels at which cereals will flourish in Armenia, i. 107 note Agrikar Dagh, peak of the Gori Mokri in Northern Armenia, i. 87, 434 Ahmed, Arab Emir, cherishes pretensions to the district of Taron (Mush), i. 343, and defeats Sembat I., ibid.
— from Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 2 of 2) The Turkish Provinces by H. F. B. (Harry Finnis Blosse) Lynch

A bottle of acid, in which were a number of diamonds, had been thrown outside and the contents scattered in the sand; T——'s watch had been pulled to pieces and flung through the window; and altogether every conceivable piece of mischief had been done.
— from Home Life on an Ostrich Farm by Martin, Annie, Mrs.