Feminine adjectives in -a are declined like feminine nouns in -a , and you should learn to decline them together as follows: Noun Adjective domina (base domin- ), f., lady bona (base bon- ), good Singular Terminations Nom.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Covered with ice, it was only to be distinguished from land by its superior wildness and ruggedness.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Morale operations on the white side included such items as the following: Sending mournful poetry leaflets to Japanese units which were known to be demoralized for lack of home furlough (China Theater); Dropping beautiful colored pictures of luscious Japanese victuals on starving troops (North Burma); Showing the Japanese Sad Sack in a cartoon, fighting everywhere while his officers get all the liquor, all the food, all the girls, and all the glory, while the common soldier ends up cremated (Southwest Pacific);
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

MERRET (De), gentleman of Picardie, proprietor of the Grande Breteche, near Vendome, under the Empire; had the room walled up, where he knew the Spaniard Bagos de Feredia, lover of his wife, was in hiding.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

'And also I had honour to bring down from Lurgan your present costume.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Truly if these reasons be good, which I leave to future time to determine, it may be done for little cost.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

However, it could not be done, for l’Etoile said he was quite ready to give up the bill, but that he expected Sir B—— M—— to pay a crown a day for his keep while he remained in prison.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

She was wild to be at home—to hear, to see, to be upon the spot to share with Jane in the cares that must now fall wholly upon her, in a family so deranged, a father absent, a mother incapable of exertion, and requiring constant attendance; and though almost persuaded that nothing could be done for Lydia, her uncle's interference seemed of the utmost importance, and till he entered the room her impatience was severe.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

" He also composed the following:— "The time that breeds delay feels long, The skald feels weary of his song; What sweetens, brightens, eases life? 'Tis a sweet-smiling lovely wife.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Therefore this metaphor must be dropped, for Lorraine pulled out his roll of paper, pen, and ink (which he was bound to carry), and put up his knees, all stiff and creaking, and on that desk did what he ought to have done at least three months ago.
— from Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

There is, of course, a universal prohibition in the South against marriage of the two races, and these statutes express the wish of the community; they put such practices to the ban; they make possible the rare cases of prosecution, which commonly break down for lack of testimony.
— from The Southern South by Albert Bushnell Hart

This morning I walked out—the London haze was pearly gray and opalescent and a lozenge sun was in the sky, a beautiful day for London—and I went down to the foot of Curzon Street and through Lansdowne passage, and there, yes, there was my old friend the cock-eyed sweeper, standing by his little pile of dust.
— from Polly the Pagan: Her Lost Love Letters by Isabel Anderson

And when she goes the Autocrats will go with her, the Beaminsters as Beaminsters will be done for; life here round the Circus will never be the same again.
— from The Duchess of Wrexe, Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Hugh Walpole

Himself would be satisfied, his hands, his eyes, his ears, with the circumstances of a bloody despatch from life of him, and him, and him, each witness of his torture and shame, beneath whose remembered eye his spirit now shrieked and writhed.
— from The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman

I should think this lady might very fairly ask to be delivered from love of such a nature.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 07 by Robert Louis Stevenson

By Duncan Forbes , LL.D. 8vo.
— from History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 3 (of 3) Third Edition by Kaye, John William, Sir

Barry, David Fitzjames, Lord Barry, and Viscount Buttevant, 18 , 314 .
— from Sir Walter Ralegh: A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

III "NOTRE SANG A TEINT LA BANNIÈRE DE FRANCE" LONDON:
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 3 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 3 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de