17 and capere , catch ); claudere , lock , from *clāvidere ( clāvis , key ); aetās , age , for áevitās ( 262 ); praecō , herald , for *práevicō ( 105, g ) prae-vocō ( 211 ); also with change of ou to ū ( 100 ), prūdēns , prudent , for *proudēns from providēns , foreseeing ; nūper , lately , from *noviper ; nūntius , messenger , from *noventius ( 333 ); iūcundus , joyful , from iuvicundus (Cic.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

They crossed the bridge like this and came out on to the river bank, turning this time to the left, again into a long deserted back street, which led to the centre of the town by a shorter way than going through Bogoyavlensky Street.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

His youthful prank of being a policeman had faded from his mind; he did not think of himself as the representative of the corps of gentlemen turned into fancy constables, or of the old eccentric who lived in the dark room.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

It came into the bird's mind, however, that they would no longer be without a ruler, and would choose one of themselves to be their King.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Of the Beautiful we are seldom capable, oftener of the Good; and how highly should we value those who endeavour, with great sacrifices, to forward that good among their fellows!
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Hitherto I have set forth the nature of Man, (whose Pride and other Passions have compelled him to submit himselfe to Government;) together with the great power of his Governour, whom I compared to Leviathan, taking that comparison out of the two last verses of the one and fortieth of Job; where God having set forth the great power of Leviathan, called him King of the Proud.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Thence to Guildhall (in our way taking in Dr. Wilkins), and there my Lord and I had full and large discourse with Sir Thomas Player, the Chamberlain of the City (a man I have much heard of for his credit and punctuality in the City, and on that score I had a desire to be made known to him), about the credit of our tallys, which are lodged there for security to such as should lend money thereon to the use of the Navy.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The boy commenced one of those wild, grotesque songs common among the negroes, in a rich, clear voice, accompanying his singing with many comic evolutions of the hands, feet, and whole body, all in perfect time to the music.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

I thought at the time, I must confess, that the papers were scarcely worth the cost of obtaining them—the apprehension of danger to my personal safety never having suggested itself to me in the remotest manner.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

In the meantime the news had spread through the prison that the Raiders were to be sent in again unpunished, and an angry mob, numbering some thousands, and mostly composed of men who had suffered injuries at the hands of the marauders, gathered at the South Gate, clubs in hand, to get such satisfaction as they could out of the rascals.
— from Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 2 by John McElroy

Get everything you can out of this blasted bus!"
— from Dave Dawson with the R.A.F. by Robert Sidney Bowen

[135] These men had to creep out on their hands and knees and lie flat on the ground, and as soon as they could see the enemy advancing, bound back to us and give the alarm; thus, all would be in readiness for them, although it was as dark as the grave.
— from A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863 by T. (Timothy) Gowing

They choose one of their number who is to stay on the mountain till the next year.
— from What We Saw in Egypt by Anonymous

He does not eat us up at once; he takes our eggs, lays them in the family ant hill on the ground floor—lays them, labeled and numbered, side by side, layer on layer, so that each day a new one may creep out of the egg.
— from Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. First Series by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

With the seven Spaniards came one of the savages, who, as I said, were their prisoners formerly, and with them also came the savage whom the Englishmen had left bound hand and foot at the tree; for it seems they came that way, saw the slaughter of the seven [page 395] men, and unbound the eighth, and brought him along with them, where, however, they were obliged to bind him again, as they had done the two others, who were left when the third run away.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) by Daniel Defoe

He was a director, and in several cases the chairman of a board of directors, in nine of the most important financial and commercial organizations of the West—The United Traction Company of Cincinnati, The Western Crucible Company, The United Carriage Company, The Second National Bank of Chicago, the First National Bank of Cincinnati, and several others of equal importance.
— from Jennie Gerhardt: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

67 The general correctness of our translation is assured by the fact that the Latin text in which it is embodied supplies a Latin translation, thus:—“quod ita latine sonat: ‘ante necessarium exitum prudentior quam opus fuerit nemo existit, ad cogitandum videlicet antequam hinc proficiscatur anima, quid boni vel mali egerit, qualiter post exitum judicanda fuerit.
— from Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle