"I have left a few paltry rupees, a few petty pleasures, for a cosmic empire of endless bliss.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

The present system of ferō is as follows: Principal parts: ferō , ferre ; ( tulī , lātus ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The language of the Yānādis is Telugu, but some words are compounds of Telugu and Tamil, e.g. , artichedi for plantain, pandikutti for pig.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

A synopsis of vidi in the first person singular of these tenses is as follows: Present Periphrastic Future.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

From this fact we must conclude either that the aboriginal parent-species at first produced perfectly fertile hybrids, or that the hybrids subsequently reared under domestication became quite fertile.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

In the world few people act from principle; present feelings, and early habits, are the grand springs: but how would the former be deadened, and the latter rendered iron corroding fetters, if the world were shown to young people just as it is; when no knowledge of mankind or their own hearts, slowly obtained by experience rendered them forbearing?
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

A few pleasant people from Philadelphia and Baltimore were picknicking at the inn, and the Selfridge Merrys had come down for three weeks because Kate Merry had had bronchitis.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The perfect and pluperfect subjunctive of the irregular verb sum are inflected as follows: Perfect Pluperfect fu ´erim fu e´rimus fu
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

But Pope's version was no field for such a display; and my purpose was to touch briefly on antiquarian or mythological allusions, to notice occasionally some departures from the original, and to give a few parallel passages from our English Homer, Milton.
— from The Iliad by Homer

On the walls are a few wood engravings, mostly of religious subjects, and a few photograph portraits finished in oils.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

(includes Army, Navy, and Air Force), paramilitary Police Field Force Unit, Militia Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 6,630,336 (1997 est.)
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

There it means turning a track of land into a forest, and a forest did not mean land covered with timber trees, but a "certain territory of woody grounds and fruitful pastures, privileged for wild beasts and fowles of the forest to rest and abide in," in "the protection of the King for his princely delight and pleasure."
— from Rebuilding Britain: A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War by Hopkinson, Alfred, Sir

Here you are, Mama,” he went on, feeling in his pockets for a coin, “here is a five- péso piece for you.
— from Under the Chilian Flag: A Tale of War between Chili and Peru by Harry Collingwood