amb-it-io = a going round, canvassing ambition. comes ( cum + eo )
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

This mere suspicion, without any proof whatever, had caused him to be condemned for contumacy; a common case enough with judges, who always proceed with much rigour against those who are absent.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

A clause of result (also called a consecutive clause) expresses an action or condition as due to, or resulting from, something indicated in the main sentence, as "he is so strong that he can do it," "I had so much pleasure that I laughed heartily."
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Συντέλεια, ας, ἡ, a complete combination; a completion, consummation, end, Mat. 13.39, 40, 49; 24.3; 28.20.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Now no crest has ever been granted where the right to arms has not existed or been simultaneously conferred, and therefore, whilst there are still many coats of arms legally in existence without a crest, a crest cannot exist without a coat of arms, so that those people, and they are many, who vehemently assert a right to the " crest of their family," whilst admitting they have no right to arms, stand self-convicted heraldically both of having spoken unutterable rubbish, and of using a crest to which they can have no possible right.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

ESCENA XII SCENE XII (Don Diego, Don Gonzalo, Don Juan, Don Luis, Buttarelli, Centellas, Avellaneda, caballeros, curiosos, enmascarados.) (Don Diego, Don Gonzalo, Don Juan, Don Luis, Buttarelli, Centellas, Avellaneda, gentlemen, onlookers, masqueraders.)
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

18. in lecto jacens interrogat uxorem an arcam probe clausit, an capsula, &c. E lecto surgens nudus et absque calceis, accensa lucerna omnia obiens et lustrans, et vix somno indulgens.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[85] se cargan en cuenta , are charged ; cargan en cuenta , to charge .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

“Well, my last crime was a Christmas crime, a cheery, cosy, English middle-class crime; a crime of Charles Dickens.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Now it is mist for ever on the hill, and the rain-rot in the wood, and clouds and cares chasing each other across our heavens, and flowers that flame from bud to blossom and smoulder into dust almost before we have caught their perfume; then, old friends, we pricked our days out leisurely upon a golden calendar: the scent of the morning hay-fields seemed eternal.
— from Jaunty Jock, and Other Stories by Neil Munro

Thus the phenomena of chemical affinity, cohesion, capillarity, electricity, and magnetism depend on actions which science cannot trace to their primitive causes—viz., to the simple elements—but only to their proximate causes, which are complex, and, as such, follow different laws of causation corresponding to the different modes of their constitution.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

Brackets found in passages cited contain additions, comments, corrections, etc., of our own, not of the respective authors quoted.
— from American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod by F. (Friedrich) Bente

He had crossed the Channel on purpose to submit this view to Sir Edward Carson and Captain Craig early in 1912, but at that time nothing was done to give effect to it.
— from Ulster's Stand For Union by Ronald McNeill

“They’re having what they call a crow caucus,” explained Jack.
— from The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound; or, A Tour on Skates and Iceboats by George A. Warren

Charcoal by itself carburizes slowly, consequently commercial compounds also contain certain "energizers" which give rapid penetration at lower temperatures.
— from The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by K. A. (Kristian A.) Juthe

"Future American citizens and citizenesses. Count 'em.
— from The Pride of Palomar by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

[Footnote: Although the old settlers of Sangamon County are acquainted with these facts, and we have often heard them and many others like them from the lips of eye-witnesses, we have preferred to cite only these incidents of the sudden change which are given in the careful and conscientious compilation entitled "The Early Settlers of Sangamon County," by John Carroll Power.]
— from Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 by John G. (John George) Nicolay