The coordinated member may denote efficient cause or reason: as, peregrīnus ego sum, Sauream nōn nōvī , Pl.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane
In a slight work, Daphnis et Chloé , Offenbach risked a dominant eleventh without either introduction or conclusion—an extraordinary audacity at the time.
— from Musical Memories by Camille Saint-Saëns
In this can be discovered every cause of resentment and every variety of {72} complaint which the thirteen colonies were ready to put forward.
— from The Wars Between England and America by Theodore Clarke Smith
As long as he confined himself to the mere description of animals he was a pet of the church, which seems to have pleased him, but 29 when he began to draw evolutionary conclusions of real philosophical import and value, the Sorbonne at once opened its batteries.
— from Evolution Social and Organic by Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow) Lewis
To kill a wife and her husband with her and her children sates not his anger; ’tis not enough to slaughter relations and drive friends into exile; he strives to destroy every citizen of Rome and to blot out the very name of our race.
— from Claudian, volume 1 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus
Forgetting his official [Pg 387] duties, in the excitement of the moment, it is alleged that the referee (myself) jumped up and down excitedly, calling out: 'Roll over, Spaethy, just once more!'
— from Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball by William H. (William Hanford) Edwards
On the contrary, the distinguishing ethical characteristics of races, as seen in their ethical ideals and their moral conduct, are determined by the dominant social order, and vary with it.
— from Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick
By the way, pushing a young calf that braces its front legs and insists on lying down every couple of rods while its real mother and an idiotic farrow cow are threatening to run over you all the time, is a job that is rather trying on the temper.
— from The Red Cow and Her Friends by Peter McArthur
The conference closed with the evening session at the Eighth Street Baptist Church, where a large audience was addressed by Dr. I. E. McDougle, of Sweet Briar College, Dr. E. Crooks, of Randolph-Macon College, and Professor Bernard Tyrrell of the Virginia Theological Seminary and College.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various
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