When one catches cold the tube is apt to become blocked by mucus, causing unequal pressure and consequent partial deafness.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

The same applies to similar citations under Perfect and Pluperfect.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The only advantages which result from the present constitution of the United States are the division of the legislative power and the consequent check upon political assemblies; with the creation of a tribunal of appeal for the revision of the laws.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

It was said to have been founded by Phocian colonists under Philogenes and Damon.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

[5507] ———Chlamydemque ut pendeat apte Collocat, ut limbus totumque appareat aurum.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

He was taking his time about his errand, then; but when he saw me on the top of the staircase, looking at him over the banisters, he swung into a trot, and came up panting as if he had run himself into a state of exhaustion.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The truth desired to answer this whole passage, may be stated in exact terms thus: The infinite and absolute spiritual Person, the ultimate and indestructible, and indivisible and composite unit, possesses as a necessary quality of personality pure liberty; which is freedom from compulsion or restraint in the choice of one of two possible ends.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

There comes up, panting, a harassed-looking, elderly female, but genteel in black.
— from Paul Kelver by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

He came up panting a little and wagging his huge head amiably as is the fashion with Polar Bears.
— from A Little Maid in Toyland by Adah Louise Sutton

cit. under “Parvise.” Antiquary , 1899, XXXV .
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson

Character undeveloped; politically, an expansionist.
— from Her Lord and Master by Martha Morton

From all these circumstances united, political as well as military, we are not surprised to hear that the hoplites whom he took out with him went with much reluctance.
— from History of Greece, Volume 06 (of 12) by George Grote

And always alongside is One standing close up , putting all His limitless power at our disposal , in our action.
— from Quiet Talks on John's Gospel by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon

In comes Apollo, and sits down at my elbow, in that close, unventilated place, and finishes the process of strangulation, with dead tobacco smoke in his clothes and hair.
— from Ginger-Snaps by Fanny Fern

For the open cleft of the grave lies close upon pleasure and power and rest.
— from Amurath to Amurath by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

These backgrounds are in various tints—the most common in use is gold; we 49 have also crimson, ultramarine, purple, and not unfrequently black.
— from Elementary Instruction in the Art of Illuminating and Missal Painting on Vellum A Guide to Modern Illuminators by D. (David) Laurent de Lara