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A masculine accusative volgum is sometimes
A masculine accusative volgum is sometimes found.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

at me again vowing I should
“Have to burst it open,” said I, and was running down the entry a little, for a good start, when the landlady caught at me, again vowing I should not break down her premises; but I tore from her, and with a sudden bodily rush dashed myself full against the mark.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

are made and vicariously I shared
It was a rare experience for this young fellow to be around where icebergs are made, and vicariously I shared his experience.
— from Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. (Francis Bail) Pearson

and made a vow I swear
He knelt down upon the sand and made a vow:— “I swear to build a chapel to Saint-Jean and Saint-Etienne, the patrons of my wife and son, and to found one hundred masses in honor of the Virgin, if God and the saints will restore to me the affection of my son, the Duc de Nivron, here present.”
— from The Hated Son by Honoré de Balzac

any men are valiant in such
and they who behave themselves in them unworthily, are they whom you call cowards?” “Very right.” “Do you think,” added Socrates, “that any men are valiant in such occasions except they who know how to behave themselves in them?”
— from The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates by Xenophon

as much as virtue in short
What they really have to do, if they would upset the necessarian argument, is to prove that they are free to associate any emotion whatever with any idea whatever; to like pain as much as pleasure; vice as much as virtue; in short, to prove, that, whatever may be the fixity of order of the universe of things, that of thought is given over to chance.
— from Hume (English Men of Letters Series) by Thomas Henry Huxley

all manner actionum voluptificarum in se
Legrand describes the case of a girl, fifteen years of age, who seduced her brother to all manner actionum voluptificarum in se.
— from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey

and marbles and various in style
Can you not imagine a city of the size of this, or vastly larger, the structure of whose streets and buildings shall be made under the control of the best architectural ideas, being of various stones and marbles, and various in style and color, so that each and every one shall be either light, or graceful, or simple, or ornate, or solid, or grand, according to its purpose, and the conception of the builder; and in the midst and on the borders of the city, squares, and parks, planted with trees and flowers and freshened by streams and fountains.
— from Essays Æsthetical by George Henry Calvert

advertisement make a vivid impression so
We must insist on the further demand that the advertisement make a vivid impression, so that it may influence the memory through its vividness.
— from Psychology and Industrial Efficiency by Hugo Münsterberg

and miracles and visions In spite
And every word in every verse, and in its literal meaning, And histories and prophecies and miracles and visions, In spite of learned unbelief,—we hold it all plain truth: Not blindly, but intelligently, after search and study; Hobbes and Paine considered well, and Germany and Colenso ...
— from The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett

and Malcolm asked Verity if she
The conversation turned on Cedric Templeton, and Malcolm asked Verity if she could transform the lumber-room into a bedroom for two or three nights for the use of his friend.
— from Herb of Grace by Rosa Nouchette Carey

and made a very inflammatory speech
And after that an Irishman—I know he was an Irishman by the cut of his jib and his language—drove up on a bob-tailed, lantern-jawed horse and made a very inflammatory speech to the mob right in front of the gate.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July


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