the contrivances of men, though in theory ( in verbis ) they had some importance ( vim ) yet upon trial ( experiendo ) when there is need of action and not of discussion ( edisseri ) how to act . . . .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Five months ago I separated myself entirely from the family, and no one dared enter my room except at stated times, to clean and tidy it, and so on, and to bring me my meals.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A number of different explanations have been offered to account for this disproportion.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The victory was so narrow that the Republicans did not feel themselves strong enough for aggressive action, and the party was composed of a number of diverse elements not yet sufficiently united to agree upon a distinctive policy.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

At the unexpected apparition, no one dared even to breathe.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

“The First Expedition,” as it was always distinguished, by the officers and men of the Eighth Army Corps, there having been many subsequent expeditions sent out before our war with the Filipinos was over, was itself subdivided into a number of different expeditions, troops being hurried to Manila as fast as they could be assembled and properly equipped in sufficient numbers.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

[90] Every monastery had a number of dependent establishments of greater or less size: cells on its distant estates; granges on its manors; chapels in places where the abbey tenants were at a distance from a church; and often hermitages under its protection.
— from Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition by Edward Lewes Cutts

I have here heard this report of my dear lord's journey from one which conversed with Sir George Carey, who commanded the guard which conducted him, that he was nothing at all daunted with so unexpected a misfortune, and not only did endure it with great patience and courage, but, moreover, carried it with a joyful and merry countenance.
— from Constance Sherwood: An Autobiography of the Sixteenth Century by Georgiana Fullerton

The one street of Zeal, lying between rich meadows and wood, was like a necklace of diamonds embedded in black velvet.
— from John Herring: A West of England Romance. Volume 1 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

A number of dialogues end in the same manner, both in Xenophon and Plato, leaving us quite unsatisfied as to the result.
— from Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 1 (of 3) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Porter opens, 50 ; requirements necessary for offices on ships of, 55 ; woodyards along, 59 ; farms along, 60 ; slavery on west bank of, 64 ; beginning of its trade boom, 66 ; change in character of crews on, 69 , 70 ; code of honor of, 74 ; accidents during low water, 74 , 76 ; obstructions in, 78 ; piloting and navigation on (difficulties, etc.), 78 - 99 , 101 - 103 , 111 - 116 , 223 , 224 ; improvements on, 79 , 221 - 228 , 299 ; may regain prestige in commerce, 79 , 80 ; boats aground in, 80 ; Twain's Life on the Miss. , cited, 83 ; numerous turns in, 85 ; dams and dikes in, 85 , 225 ; difficulties of paddling on, 85 - 91 ; pilots must know, 86 - 88 ; "knowing" it, 92 - 109 ; 317 official etiquette on, 109 ; pioneer steamboats of, 111 , 112 , 187 , 257 ; modern boats, 110 ; fur-traders on, 112 ; raftsmen on, 113 , 114 ; incidents of river life on, 117 - 125 ; steamboatmen on, 124 ; morals on, 125 , 251 ; menus of boats on, 126 - 131 ; water of, used as beverage, 129 - 131 ; contaminated by sewage, 131 ; gambling on, 138 - 142 ; life of steamboats on, 161 ; duration of navigation, 170 ; keel boats on, 188 ; legends of, 302 ; floods on, 216 , 225 , 238 ; mills along, 221 , 222 ; commission, 226 ; wrecks on, 227 ; snags removed from, 227 ; dredging in, 228 ; losses of steamboats on, 229 - 239 ; reliving old days on, 240 - 253 ; steamboats on upper, before 1863, 257 - 294 ; rapids in, 257 ; origin and etymology of name, 300 ; its French names, 301 .
— from Old Times on the Upper Mississippi The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863 by George Byron Merrick

A night of dreadful expectation was passed.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 12: 1567, part I by John Lothrop Motley

From hence it proceeded, and no other defect else, that I made not due returne of your five hundred Florins.
— from The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels by Giovanni Boccaccio

[Pg 48] Radio-active Elements from Uranium and Thorium Placed in the Periodic Systems Adapted from Soddy Isotopes An examination of the table will show a number of different elements falling in the same position in a group of the Periodic System irrespective of their atomic weights.
— from A Brief Account of Radio-activity by F. P. (Francis Preston) Venable

A number of distinguished English epicures were present and took part in the contest, with a view to demonstrate that the English preparations were the best.
— from Tempting Curry Dishes by Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson) Murrey