A verse is said to be catalectic in syllabam , in disyllabum , or in trisyllabum , according to the number of syllables remaining in the last foot.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

And even now that Commodious is strangled, I don't see a way to our bettering ourselves.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Strategy makes use of maps without troubling itself about triangulations; it does not inquire how the country is subdivided into departments and provinces, and how the people are educated and governed, in order to attain the best military results; but it takes things as it finds them in the community of European States, and observes where very different conditions have a notable influence on War.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

"Captain," I said, "I don't doubt—" "Tomorrow," Captain Nemo added, standing up, "tomorrow at 2:40 in the afternoon, the Nautilus will float off and exit the Torres Strait undamaged."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

But under ordinary circumstances, if she is "dancing," she must dance with everyone who asks her; if she is "not dancing," she must not make exceptions.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

(The statue of Don Gonzalo passes through the door without opening it and without making a sound.) ES CENA II SCENE II (Don Juan, Centellas, Avellaneda,
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

With his head to one side, and smoking his cigar in short, impatient draughts, he listened.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

Dost thou not hear what that clown is singing?" "I do," said Sancho, "but what has Roncesvalles chase to do with what we have in hand?
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Such consciousness is suggested in dreams, in madness, and may be found, for all we know, in the depths of universal nature.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

If a woollen cloth containing cotton is soaked in dilute sulphuric acid, washed, and dried at a gentle heat, the cotton is acted upon, and can be beaten out of the fabric, the wool resisting the acid treatment.
— from The Manufacture of Paper With Illustrations, and a Bibliography of Works Relating to Cellulose and Paper-Making by R. W. (Robert Walter) Sindall

"That warmed you under the collar, I suspect?" "It did wilt mah linen a trifle.
— from A Tar-Heel Baron by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

“I don’t think she will see much of Dick even if she does go out to Canada,” I said; “I don’t think his wife would have a room to spare to invite her there—with seven children.
— from Between the Larch-woods and the Weir by Flora Klickmann

"Come in," said I, dryly.
— from The Paternoster Ruby by Charles Edmonds Walk

Captain is sorry I don’t love you.
— from Marjorie Dean, Post-Graduate by Josephine Chase

“‘Very well, that is exactly what I meant to do, consequently, I say I do not know who wrote that letter.
— from The White Rose of Memphis by William C. (Clark) Falkner

This paper must be signed by the Chief Inventor, and the applicant at once receives his first installment which is continued, in some instances, during natural life.
— from Life in a Thousand Worlds by W. S. (William Shuler) Harris

While the issue of our contest is still in doubt, your sister will assuredly unlock the door and give the alarm, hoping to prevent your contemplated crime, or my killing of you.
— from A Prince of Good Fellows by Robert Barr

So far as coercion can influence selfhood it destroys its power for good and makes it a menace to civilization, instead of a beneficent agency in the accomplishment of high purposes.
— from Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

Now, what chanced thereupon I think thou wilt agree with me, comrade, in saying it did but serve her right.
— from A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales by Amélie Rives