The book is practical as well as descriptive, and in the opening chapters the questions of camera, lens, plates, blinds, decoys, and other pertinent matters are fully discussed.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

The memorable fancy-ball given here at a comparatively late period, but during the Sheriff's lifetime, recurs as we go by.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

It is again a case of dower, and the claimant is remitted to the Chancery; "et fiat sibi ibidem justitia, quia non potest juvari per communem legem per breve de dote."
— from View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam

“I’ll let not my children, like Pharaoh, be drown’d “In the Nile’s deep turbulent water; “Nor am I a tyrant, like Herod of old, “No patron of children’s slaughter.
— from The poems of Heine; Complete Translated into the original metres; with a sketch of his life by Heinrich Heine

The expression is classical ( lanei pedes ), but does not bear the classical sense.
— from The Plays of Philip Massinger, Vol. I by Philip Massinger

[A mistake for Lady Catherine, Lady Paulina being dead.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys

The only motive which remains is, that of making the most of a tenure of power which is universally known to be as short-lived as it is precarious; and prolonging it as long as possible, by bending, in every instance, to the passions or fantasies of the multitude, nominally vested with supreme power, really entirely guided by a few insolvent and ambitious demagogues— "Ces petits souverains qu'il fait pour un année, Voyant d'un temps si court leur puissance bornée, Des plus heureux desseins font avorter le fruit, De peur de le laiser à celui qui le suit; Comme ils ont peu de part aux biens dont ils ordonnent, Dans le champs du public largement ils moissonnent; Assurés que chacun leur pardonne aisément, Espérant à son tour un pareil traitement; Le pire des états, c'est l'état populaire."
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66 No.406, August 1849 by Various