La rencontre avec des experts et des auteurs qui ont participé à mes projets de publications.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

His discerning eye easily discovered a senator about fifty years of age, blameless in all the offices of life; and a youth of about seventeen, whose riper years opened a fair prospect of every virtue: the elder of these was declared the son and successor of Hadrian, on condition, however, that he himself should immediately adopt the younger.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

V. be diffuse &c. adj.; run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge, dilate, amplify, expand, inflate; launch out, branch out; rant. maunder, prose; harp upon &c. (repeat) 104; dwell on, insist upon. digress, ramble, battre la campagne[Fr][obs3], beat about the bush, perorate, spin a long yarn, protract; spin out, swell out, draw out; battologize[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The Preces Feriales are said at Lauds on Ferias of Lent, Advent and Passiontide, Ember days, except Ember day at Pentecost and on Vigils (except on Vigil of Christmas, Epiphany, Ascension, Friday after Ascension and Vigil of Pentecost)—when the Office on those days is of the current feria.
— from The Divine Office A Study of the Roman Breviary by Edward J. Quigley

Warden passed quickly through these and other ruins; he caught a hint of an aqueduct, looked into a deep excavation evidently designed as a cistern, and then, with somewhat more rapid pulse–beat, and a certain awed wonderment dominating his mind, made straight for the causeway that led to the “door three cubits from the ground [175] .”
— from The Message by Louis Tracy

“There’s a right way and a wrong way to do everything, even dishes, and it’s just as easy to do it right as wrong.” Jacqueline didn’t mind, for one day only.
— from The Turned-About Girls by Beulah Marie Dix

Annie began to cry "dilly, dilly, einy, einy, ducksey," according to the burden of a tune they seem to have accepted as the national ducks' anthem; but instead of being soothed by it, they only quacked three times as hard, and ran round till we were giddy.
— from School Reading by Grades: Sixth Year by James Baldwin

Annie began to cry “Dilly, dilly, einy, einy, ducksey,” according to the burden of a tune they seem to have accepted as the national duck's anthem; but instead of being soothed by it, they only quacked three times as hard, and ran round till we were giddy.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Wann siehst du es ein Dass all deine Bündnisse Trug und Schein?
— from The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various

How many miracles did Samuel, David, Elias, Elisha, Daniel, and the prophets, together with my Son, who raised the dead, cast out devils, made them to see that were born blind, gave and restored limbs!
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

zu Berlin , 1909, p. 926), according to whom it means "Verteidigung des eald eþelstol , des alten Erbthrones (nicht Stammsitzes)."
— from The Heroic Age by H. Munro (Hector Munro) Chadwick

Por aquesta santa casa donde estamos en de ayuso, que fabledes la verdad, de aquesto que aqui os pregunto.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek