75. Observe the sentences Lesbia est bona , Lesbia is good Lesbia est ancilla , Lesbia is a maidservant We have learned ( § 55 ) that bona , when used, as here, in the predicate to describe the subject, is called a predicate adjective .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Babbitt had heard stories of what the Athletic Club called “goings on” at young parties; of girls “parking” their corsets in the dressing-room, of “cuddling” and “petting,” and a presumable increase in what was known as Immorality.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Plato will, 6 de legibus , he that marrieth not before 35 years of his age, must be compelled and punished, and the money consecrated to [5926]
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

So cautiously he made his way through the thickets whence the voices came, and, pushing aside the leaves, peeped into the little open space where the two men, staff in hand, were coming slowly together.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

"Ask a person at Rome to show you the road," said Dr. Guthrie of Edinburgh, "and he will always give you a civil and polite answer; but ask any person a question for that purpose in this country (Scotland), and he will say, 'Follow your nose and you will find it.'
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

For quotations from the Rāmāyaṇa occurring in works that belong to the eighth and ninth centuries A.D. show that a recension allied to the present C, and probably another allied to the present A, existed at that period.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

She asked for his directions p. 74 about the cows and pigs; and did not always obtain them, as I have shown before.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Surprise, consciousness, and pleasure appeared in each of the three on this unexpected meeting; and as Edmund was come on the very same business that had brought Miss Crawford, consciousness and pleasure were likely to be more than momentary in them .
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Sometimes he forgot this newly discovered recipe for happiness and considered himself capable of identifying his life with Daddy Eroshka’s, but then he quickly bethought himself and promptly clutched at the idea of conscious self-sacrifice, and from that basis looked calmly and proudly at all men and at their happiness.
— from The Cossacks: A Tale of 1852 by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And she stood there as steady and as highly strung as a bow, every note came out with the ring of an arrow and went straight to the heart, as clear and pure as possible."
— from Serapis — Volume 01 by Georg Ebers

The black devil!” Bart, in fact, wove a loose course before his master, running here and there to all points of vantage, as if he knew that danger lurked ahead, but where he came close, with only the narrow passage between the cliffs, he seemed to make up his animal brain that there could be no trouble in so constricted a place, and darted straight ahead.
— from The Seventh Man by Max Brand

The streets are crammed with cars and people and there is never any peace.
— from The Obstacle Race by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

At length the steps ceased, as passing along a vault of masonry, perhaps forty or fifty feet long, the man unbolted and unbarred a small but solid door covered with iron plates; and in a moment the lamp was extinguished by the blast from without.
— from Agincourt: A Romance The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Insensibly they became occupied with the ideas and tenets natural to the common people, which, if they have usually the merit of being honestly conceived and boldly expressed, are not the less often adopted with credulity and precipitation, and carried into effect with unhesitating harshness and severity.
— from Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Walter Scott

There was no supreme power, claiming and possessing a general interest with the community at large, to whom the oppressed might appeal from subordinate tyranny, either for justice or for mercy.
— from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott

It was therefore not Orange alone, but the Catholics and Protestants alike, the whole population of the country, and the Duchess Regent herself, who desired the convocation of the estates.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 11: 1566, part II by John Lothrop Motley