This, however, may be regarded as grammatically in apposition with it , as if one said “ It (that war was at hand) was plain.”
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

I shall not be relinquishing anything great; I shall be pursuing what is great; the credit of saving the youth of Greece, 10 acquaintance with a better country, and cities, whose fame is flourishing even here, and the politeness and the arts of their inhabitants; and the son of Æson, whom I could be ready to take in exchange for all the things that the whole world contains; with whom for my husband I shall both be 251 VII.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

These I soon found when I struck up a tributary of the big river, and got into a glen with steep hills all about me, and a corkscrew road at the end which climbed over a pass.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

Such bars can never be used again, and the only way in which a railroad line can be reconstructed across Georgia is, to make a new road from Fairburn Station (twenty-four miles southwest of Atlanta) to Madison, a distance of one hundred miles; and, before that can be done, I propose to be on the road from Augusta to Charleston, which is a continuation of the same.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Still, I did not want the people there to guess my ignorance; so I hit upon what I thought to be rather a good idea.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

However, though he was not guilty of ill manners by rebuking a gentleman in his own house, he paid him off obliquely in the pulpit: which had not, indeed, the good effect of working a reformation in the squire himself; yet it so far operated on his conscience, that he put the laws very severely in execution against others, and the magistrate was the only person in the parish who could swear with impunity.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

“Because,” replied Aglaya gravely, “in the poem the knight is described as a man capable of living up to an ideal all his life.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In the United States," he continued, "academies and colleges, though fast improving, are yet but raw; and greatly inferior to those in Britain, generally speaking.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Then in the ear of the Earthquake Limpang Tung said a word that only the gods may say, and the Earthquake started to his feet and flung the cave away, the cave wherein he slept between the cliffs, and shook himself and went galloping abroad and overturned the mountains that hid the golden ball, and bit the earth beneath them and hurled their crags about and covered himself with rocks and fallen hills, and went back ravening and growling into the soul of the earth, and there lay down and slept again for a hundred years.
— from Time and the Gods by Lord Dunsany

Though it might be rather a good idea, don't you think?
— from The Window-Gazer by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

These were about the same maximum rates of travel as held good between Rome and Gaul in the first century A.D. , or between Sardis and Susa in the fourth century B.C.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

When a yard is to be rigged, a grommet is also driven first on each of its extremities: next to this are fitted-on the horses , the braces ; and, lastly, the lifts , or top-sail sheet -blocks: all of which are explained in their proper places.
— from An Universal Dictionary of the Marine Or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship. Illustrated With Variety of Original Designs of Shipping, in Different Situations; Together With Separate Views of Their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. to Which Is Annexed, a Translation of the French Sea-terms and Phrases, Collected from the Works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c. by William Falconer

At this moment Grandmamma’s bell rang, and Gasha issued from her room again.
— from Boyhood by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

[27] In I. 16, however, it has been read as g in forget , though foryhet is to be found in Ratis Raving , and in XV.
— from The Bruce by John Barbour

My dear Custodian, I always think we are too sparing of assurances: Cordelia 476 is only to be excused by Regan and Goneril in the same nursery; I wish to tell you that the longer I live, the more dear do you become to me, nor does my heart own any stronger sentiment.
— from Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, October 1899 by Various