verb, endeavor, attempt, try cōn-scendō, -ere, -scendī, -scēnsus [ com- , intensive, + scandō , climb ], climb up, ascend .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Euterpae: uxores insignium virorum non statim vita functas tradunt condendas, ac ne eas quidem foeminas quae formosae sunt, sed quatriduo ante defunctas, ne cum iis salinarii concumbant, &c. 4706 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

From this use of the relative come many introductory formulas, such as quō factō , quā rē cōgnitā , quae cum ita sint , &c., &c. 1837.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

There is more choice of nurses than mothers; and therefore except the mother be most virtuous, staid, a woman of excellent good parts, and of a sound complexion, I would have all children in such cases committed to discreet strangers.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Thence to the Tangier Committee, where we should have concluded in sending Captain Cuttance and the rest to Tangier to deliberate upon the design of the Mole before they begin to work upon it, but there being not a committee (my Lord intending to be there but was taken up at my Lady Castlemayne’s)
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It was the game of the old carbineers, in slipping contraband cigars and tobacco-leaves under a house, in order to pretend a search and force the unfortunate owner to bribery or fines, only now the art had been perfected and, the tobacco monopoly abolished, resort was had to the prohibited arms.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

It raises a primâ facie presumption on the unfavourable side, far outweighing any which custom and usage could in such circumstances create on the favourable; and should at least suffice to make this, like the choice between republicanism and royalty, a balanced question.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

in confidence, in strict confidence, in strictest confidence; confidentially &c. adj.; between ourselves, between you and me; between you and me and the bedpost; entre nous[Fr], inter nos, under the seal of secrecy; a couvert[Fr].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

This was not a metaphysical theory, but a positive generalization, which accounted for a great number of facts, and would have kept its place as a law of nature, had it not been disproved by the discovery of cases in which though A detached B from C in some circumstances, C detached it from A in others, showing the law of elective chemical combination to be a less simple one than had at first been supposed.
— from Auguste Comte and Positivism by John Stuart Mill

Examples of these species are: Black Phoebe ( S. n. semiatra in northern Coahuila; S. n. nigricans in southern Coahuila), Violet-green Swallow ( T. t. lepida in northwestern Coahuila; T. t. thalassina in southeastern Coahuila), Black-eared Bushtit ( P. m. lloydi in northern Coahuila; P. m. iulus in southeastern Coahuila), White-breasted Nuthatch ( S. c. nelsoni in northern Coahuila; S. c. mexicana in southern Coahuila), Brown-throated Wren ( T. b. cahooni in northern Coahuila; T. b. compositus in southern Coahuila), Crissal Thrasher ( T. d. dorsale in northern Coahuila; T. d. dumosum in southern Coahuila), and Rufous-crowned Sparrow ( A. r. tenuirostris in northern Coahuila; A. r. boucardi in southern Coahuila).
— from Birds from Coahuila, Mexico by Emil K. Urban

Cano , I sing; canticle, chant, incantation.
— from Outline of the history of the English language and literature by Anonymous

“You are not the only clown in this company, it seems, Canby,” chuckled Macauley.
— from Our Young Aeroplane Scouts in Russia; or, Lost on the Frozen Steppes by Horace Porter

And yet, according to the principle illustrated in this legislation, this conclusion in such cases can by no means be taken for granted.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Leviticus by Samuel H. (Samuel Henry) Kellogg

“The Sea-wrack, however,” he continued, “is still collected, chiefly for manuring the land; though it is still used as a winter food for cattle, and sometimes for human beings.”
— from Glimpses of Nature, and Objects of Interest Described, During a Visit to the Isle of Wight Designed to Assist and Encourage Young Persons in Forming Habits of Observation by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon

Emmy Lou from the first day found herself descending steadily to the foot of the class; and there she remained until the awful day, at the close of the first week, when the Large Lady, realizing perhaps that she could no longer ignore such adherence to that lowly position, made discovery that while to Emmy Lou "d-o-g" might spell "dog" and "f-r-o-g" might spell "frog," Emmy Lou could not find either on a printed page, and further, could not tell wherein they differed when found for her; that, also, Emmy Lou made her figure 8's by adding one uncertain little o to the top of another uncertain little o; and that while Emmy Lou might copy, in smeary columns, certain cabalistic signs off the blackboard, she could not point them off in tens, hundreds, thousands, or read their numerical values, to save her little life.
— from The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. by Various