The dative case is easily distinguished in Greek, Latin, and German, but in English it has long been merged in form with the ordinary objective.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

It is literally as they describe it, ‘ gigas librorum ’: no single man can lift it from the floor.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

± wīsian (w. d. or a.) to direct, instruct, guide, lead , Æ, CP: point out, show , Gen .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

The general replied, "If you can do it in one day, I give leave; otherwise not; for you must certainly sail the day after to-morrow."
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

It was he who first noticed Aias' flashing eyes and clouded mind when he was enraged.' Fragment #6—Diomedes in Gramm., Lat. i. 477: 'Iambus stood a little while astride with foot advanced, that so his strained limbs might get power and have a show of ready strength.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Then the heron flew over and around her, shrieking and protesting, and at last dropped its gaunt legs only a few yards from her.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

p. 11—a passage not squared with the data in Greek Life and Thought , pp. 328, 558) accepts the old view of a general and inexplicable depopulation.
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

Bashakh Woorud, “go down if go like,” is an ominous title enough to distinguish the heir-apparent to the throne.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

We hear of dealers in gold lace and gold leaf, and also a representative of that rare genus the teapot-handle maker.
— from Springtime and Other Essays by Darwin, Francis, Sir

Cousin Elizabeth Somerville had sent her ten [209] dollars in gold; Lewis, some new gloves; there was a vanity box from Lucy with a saucy message about always powdering her nose; a little thread lace collar from Nan, made by her own hands; and to balance all was a five-pound box of candy from Dr. Wright.
— from The Carter Girls' Mysterious Neighbors by Nell Speed

So that Monday, which luckily happened to be a [80] very nice bright day, he had no difficulty in getting leave for it again.
— from Peterkin by Mrs. Molesworth

It was in this way that many good old pieces of work gradually found their destination in great London collections.
— from Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies

This is as pretty a valley as there is in the island, and you will have no difficulty in getting land at the lowest government price.
— from Maori and Settler: A Story of The New Zealand War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

In a celebrated passage addressed to William I, King of Prussia and newly-acclaimed emperor of a unified Germany, He, in His Kitáb-i-Aqdas, bids the sovereign hearken to His Voice, the Voice of God Himself; warns him to take heed lest his pride debar him from recognizing “the Day-Spring of Divine Revelation,” and admonishes him to “remember the one (Napoleon III) whose power transcended” his power, and who “went down to dust in great loss.”
— from God Passes By by Effendi Shoghi

The second day I got lost in the jungle, and I might be there yet if it had not been for Peter.
— from She Blows! And Sparm at That! by William John Hopkins