Lamothe-Houdar ( Antoine ), littérateur et fabuliste français (1672-1731).
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Competing forms that differ by virtue of metathesis are listed except for forms containing a sequence /Cʔ/ which invariably compete with forms containing /ʔC/. 5.23 Change of vowels The vowel of the antepenult sporadically may change to /a/: kumusta or kamusta ‘how are, is’; batíis or bitíis ‘leg’.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In the fourteenth century, the period when the communities of crafts were at the height of their development and power, no association of artisans could legally exist without a license either from the king, the lord, the prince, the abbot, the bailiff, or the mayor of the district in which it proposed to establish itself.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

When all the provincials became liable to the peculiar impositions of Roman citizens, they seemed to acquire a legal exemption from the tributes which they had paid in their former condition of subjects.
— 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

No portrait of a lady, that makes her simper or scowl, is satisfactory; No photograph of a lady ever fails to make her simper or scowl.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

Miss Nelly murmured: “I shouldn’t be surprised to hear that Arsène Lupin escaped from the vessel during the voyage.”
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

The allies in Sicily had sailed to Athens and induced the Athenians to send out more vessels to their assistance, pointing out that the Syracusans who already commanded their land were making efforts to get together a navy, to avoid being any longer excluded from the sea by a few vessels.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Manufactures, as in a small bulk they frequently contain a great value, and can upon that account be transported at less expense from one country to another than most parts of rude produce, are, in almost all countries, the principal support of foreign trade.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

He said the change was owing to the climate, and she did not contradict him, being glad of a like excuse for her own recovered health and spirits.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

It may be believed that a religion which should undertake to destroy so deep seated a passion, would meet its own destruction thence in the end; and if it attempted to wean men entirely from the contemplation of the good things of this world, in order to devote their faculties exclusively to the thought of another, it may be foreseen that the soul would at length escape from its grasp, to plunge into the exclusive enjoyment of present and material pleasures.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

With a lightly equipped force he hastened to Herdonea by forced marches, so as almost to anticipate the report of his approach and in order to strike greater terror into the enemy, came up with his troops in battle-array.
— from The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livy

Only the river makes a distant roar, far below, for from the terrace one looks sheer down at least eighty feet to the water.
— from A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race. Vol. 2 [of 2] A Visit to the Court of the Arab Emir, and "our Persian Campaign." by Blunt, Anne, Lady

Mrs. Ward Levitte drifted out and Lady English followed suit.
— from Nobody's Man by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

She seemed to float along without any visible exertion, as if her dress were buoyant, and bore her up in some mysterious fashion; but, looking closer, and marking how straight and firmly and lightly every footfall was planted, you gave the narrow arched instep, and the slender rounded ankle, the credit they well deserved; marveling only that so delicate a symmetry could conceal so much sinewy power.
— from Sword and Gown: A Novel by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence

—As an evidence of the fact that the framers of our State government had in mind a liberal education for the youth of our State 100,000 acres of public land was set apart for the maintenance of normal schools, with the provision that none of this land must be sold for less than ten dollars per acre.
— from Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition by James Alton James

The composition of the outpost will, as a rule, depend upon the size and composition of the command, but a mixed outpost is composed principally of infantry, which is charged with the duty of local observation, especially at night, and with resisting the enemy, in case of attack, long enough for the main body to prepare for action.
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

Perhaps he knows a little English, for there have been white trappers who have penetrated this far.”
— from The Pioneer Boys of the Columbia; or, In the Wilderness of the Great Northwest by St. George Rathborne

Having left on his own initiative, he at least escapes from man's ferocity.
— from South America To-day A Study of Conditions, Social, Political and Commercial in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil by Georges Clemenceau

He did not go home with his ship, and year after year postponed his return, until at last he married an Eskimo and bound himself fast to the cold rocks of Labrador, where he will spend the remainder of his life, eking out a miserable existence, a lonely exile from his native England.
— from The Lure of the Labrador Wild by Dillon Wallace