The emphatic form of the verb, expressed in English by "do", "did", as in "I do study", "I did find it", "Do tell me", and by adverbs such as "certainly", "indeed", etc., is expressed in Esperanto by placing the adverb ja , indeed , before the verb:
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed
Nay, it is necessary so that all your arrangements can be made beforehand, and everything be decently done and in order.'
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker
An obscure Bathala or a dim Malyari was easily superseded by or transformed into a clearly defined Diós , and in the case of any especially tenacious “demon,” he could without much difficulty be merged into a Christian saint or devil.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal
A moral, philosophical discourse needs not enter into all these caprices of language, which are so variable in different dialects, and in different ages of the same dialect.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume
The fountain Inopus, in the island of Delos, decreases and increases in the same manner as the Nile, and also at the same periods 666 .
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny
I’d die degraded, as I had lived.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
But couldn't you have refused him a little more delicately than by chasing him off the premises in such a fashion?" "Well, maybe I might have, Mrs. Dr. dear, and I intended to, but one remark he made aggravated me beyond my powers of endurance.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
“Hundreds of emigrants die daily; and if Stephen Ayres had not providentally come among us, not a soul would have been alive at this moment in Montreal.”
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie
But the tree did die, and in a few weeks was fit for nothing but to be cut down and burned.
— from Minnie Brown; or, The Gentle Girl by Daniel Wise
While I was waiting for the Grand Duke to read the letter, two great dogs came into the room, from different directions, and immediately began fighting.
— from My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands, Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train
Macconochie was chief upon the other side; an old, ill-spoken, swearing, ranting, drunken dog; and I have often thought it an odd circumstance in human nature that these two serving-men should each have been the champion of his contrary, and blackened their own faults, and made light of their own virtues, when they beheld them in a master.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 12 by Robert Louis Stevenson
After bearing, the stalk that has produced the bunch of fruit is cut down; if this is not done it will die down, as its work has been completed, and other suckers take its place.
— from Fruits of Queensland by Albert H. Benson
Well, I had a vague idea, and my recent study has corroborated it, that victims of this dread disease almost invariably throw a watch into a jar or pail of water if they get a chance.
— from The Deep Lake Mystery by Carolyn Wells
If he was much moved at all, it was to cast a look at the crowd of fierce and desperate defiance, as if he could have felt it in his heart to repeat upon every one of them his old experiment, and we suspect that he would have done it if he had had the liberty and the power.
— from The Court of Cacus; Or, The Story of Burke and Hare by Alexander Leighton
I will array you in dazzling dreams as in roses!
— from Savva and the Life of Man: Two plays by Leonid Andreyev by Leonid Andreyev
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