‘This mode of expression is called a PERIOD (a circuĭtus or ambĭtus verborum ), because the reader, in order to collect together the words of the Principal Sentence, must make a circuit , so to say, round the inserted clauses,’ 2 ‘Latin possesses what English does not, a mode of expression by means of which, round one main idea are grouped all its accessory ideas , and there is thus formed a single harmonious whole, called the PERIOD .’
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

and at last found ourselves close to the smooth expanse, which we learned was called a pond , and composed of a beautiful liquid called "water."
— from The Nursery, February 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers by Various

TO DO Look at the picture above and tell how this animal must have changed to become more like a dog, a cat, a pig, a cow, or a horse.
— from The Tree-Dwellers by Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

All laws of the Torah are to be considered as parts and constituents of a higher world; they resolve themselves into the mysteries of the masculine and feminine principle (positive and negative).
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

Every lesson of life, wisely read, tells us that we should be happy; that we should seek to be happy from principle, not simply from impulse; that we should make Happiness a great object in life; that our duties, our varied relations to our fellows as friends, as lovers, as companions, as parents, as children; our avocations, our labors, sacrifices, hopes, trials, struggles, should administer to our Happiness.
— from Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by G. S. (George Sumner) Weaver

On the other side of the great hall was a large music-room with a canvas floor, containing a piano and cabinet organ, also shelves for music numbers, and a raised dais for art orchestra.
— from Joyce's Investments: A Story for Girls by Fannie E. (Fannie Ellsworth) Newberry

And it probably was Mozart's main purpose to create and propagate a concept of a great civilization through his music.
— from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart