Though in these figures there is a wonderfully exact imitation of nature, yet there is a certain stiffness about them and an unnatural sameness of expression in all.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Some talk of an appeal unto some passion, Some to men's feelings, others to their reason; The last of these was never much the fashion, For reason thinks all reasoning out of season.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

dat. and acc. us, S2, PP; ows , PP; vus , S2; us , C2.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

A large number of these additional crests have been granted under specific warrants from the Crown, and in the case of Lord Gough, two additional crests were granted as separate augmentations and under separate patents.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Had Zalim possessed an equal share of meanness with his political antagonist, he might have extricated himself from the snare; but once overreached, he preferred sinking to grasping at an unworthy support.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

And making this concession, I affirm that (with the sole exception of duties on imports and exports) they would, under the plan of the convention, retain that authority in the most absolute and unqualified sense; and that an attempt on the part of the national government to abridge them in the exercise of it, would be a violent assumption of power, unwarranted by any article or clause of its Constitution.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Great numbers of them will frequently go out, and offer themselves for a very low pay, to serve any that will employ them: they know none of the arts of life, but those that lead to the taking it away; they serve those that hire them, both with much courage and great fidelity; but will not engage to serve for any determined time, and agree upon such terms, that the next day they may go over to the enemies of those whom they serve if they offer them a greater encouragement; and will, perhaps, return to them the day after that upon a higher advance of their pay.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

The ablative is sometimes -e when these adjectives are used substantively or in verse ( 558 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

It was many years before Jonathan escaped from the shop, to work his way up to the position of a man of great influence as a United States Senator from Rhode Island.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

We also arranged Ukridge's soap-box coops in a row, and when we caught a fowl we put it into the coop and stuck a board in front of it.
— from Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

A young man who passes his own kindred in the streets of his native town without the common courtesy due to age or respectability; a young man who sneers at the fortune acquired in an honest and reputable trade; a young man who calls his cousins counter-jumpers, and his aunts and uncles 'swaddlers'—a vulgar term of contempt applied to the earlier members of the Wesleyan confraternity—such a young man is not the individual to impart moral lustre to material wealth; and I am free to confess that I had rather any one else than Theodore Judson should inherit this vast fortune.
— from Birds of Prey by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The last first: as the organ (i. e. its changes), which is as much a body as any gross object, whose own changes it brings in contact with the soul, is nevertheless felt by the spiritual nature immediately and without a second organ: accordingly all corporeal substances give the spiritual essence sensations as well as the nerves do, and an unembodied soul is not possible, for the simple and sole reason, that in case of the dissolution of the body it would then wear the whole material universe as a heavier one.
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. II. by Jean Paul

But although the investiture of Genoa had been provisionally granted, and a treaty of alliance agreed upon, several articles of the league still remained to be discussed.
— from Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 by Julia Cartwright

"Copious streams" of water, derived, by the medium of the Grand Junction Canal, from the rivers Colne and Brent: "always pure and fresh, because always coming in"—"high service, free of extra charge;" above all, " unintermittent supply, so that customers may do without cisterns ;" such were a few of the seductive allurements held out by these interlopers to tempt deserters from the enemy's camp.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 447 Volume 18, New Series, July 24, 1852 by Various

It is an atmosphere always around us, sustaining and promoting the healthy life of those even who are the least conscious of being affected by it.
— from Exposition of the Apostles' Creed by James Dodds

If the child is five years of age, and under six, an annuity of £1, beginning after twenty-five years, can be purchased for a yearly premium of 12s.
— from As We Are and As We May Be by Walter Besant

The occurrence took place when Azal and Baha were both at Adrianople under surveillance of the Turkish authorities.
— from Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul Baha by Samuel Graham Wilson

[Pg 285] addressed himself to the most ferocious school of sub-Marlovian tragedy, and to the rugged and almost unintelligible satire of Marston.
— from A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury