And I could sing, would weeping do me good, And never borrow any tear of thee.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

degree [ maximus , greatest ], compared magnopere, magis, maximê , especially, very much ( § 323 ) maximus, -a, -um , adj., superl.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

And so there remains not the practice now to do me good, and it is not for me to continue with him at; L5 per month.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Mr. Bounderby still walking up and down when Mrs. Pegler had done, Mr. Gradgrind addressed that maligned old lady: ‘I am surprised, madam,’ he observed with severity, ‘that in your old age you have the face to claim Mr. Bounderby for your son, after your unnatural and inhuman treatment of him.’
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Up, and after being ready and done several businesses with people, I took water (taking a dram of the bottle at the waterside) with a gaily, the first that ever I had yet, and down to Woolwich, calling at Ham Creeke, where I met Mr. Deane, and had a great deal of talke with him about business, and so to the Ropeyarde and Docke, discoursing several things, and so back again and did the like at Deptford, and I find that it is absolutely necessary for me to do thus once a weeke at least all the yeare round, which will do me great good, and so home with great ease and content, especially out of the content which I met with in a book I bought yesterday, being a discourse of the state of Rome under the present Pope, Alexander the 7th, it being a very excellent piece.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It should be borne in mind that a drowning man grasps what he can see above the surface of the water, so he will not attempt to grasp his rescuer below the points of the shoulders.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The deaf man gazed at her.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

In the earlier times of Jewish history, none would embrace their religion but those who were domiciliated among them; but when they became dispersed over the world, and their doctrines more generally known, many appear to have attached themselves to the worship of the one God, without further conformity to the Mosaic institutions.
— from Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Volume 1 (of 2) A picture of Judaism, in the century which preceded the advent of our Savior. by Friedrich Strauss

The Set of the Romantic Sun How beauteous the sun as it rises supreme, Like an explosion that greets us from above, Oh, happy is he that can hail with love, Its decline, more glorious far, than a dream.
— from The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire

'Jessie, I'm afraid we shall not do much good if we always spend our mornings like this!' 'Oh, but I thought we'd done enough for to-day.' 'Perhaps so, but—What I want to say is this.
— from A Life's Morning by George Gissing

Besides the woodcock and snipe, the species that are most seriously threatened with extinction at an early date are the following: Species In Great Danger Willet Catoptrophorus semipalmatus Dowitcher Macrorhamphus griseus Knot: Red-Breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis Upland Plover Bartramia longicauda Golden Plover Charadrius dominicus Pectoral Sandpiper Pisobia maculata Of these fine species, Mr. Forbush, whose excellent knowledge of the shore birds of the Atlantic coast is well worth the most serious consideration, says that the upland plover, or Bartramian sandpiper, "is [Page 32] in imminent danger of extinction.
— from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

And we met farther on the way a dirty-looking youth with his bagpipes slung over his shoulder—in dilapidated modern garb he was anything but a fit descendant of the minstrels whose fame has come down to us in song and story.
— from British Highways and Byways from a Motor Car Being a Record of a Five Thousand Mile Tour in England, Wales and Scotland by Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler) Murphy

But, I for thy sake, have deserted my goddess and exposed myself to her vengeance."
— from The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Bolesław Prus

The entire absence of sounds is a characteristic of that sort of country, and it makes a gloomy day more gloomy.
— from Throckmorton: A Novel by Molly Elliot Seawell

I am not in the habit of prying into men’s private affairs, but, to speak the bare truth, I am naturally interested in one whose father has on more than one occasion done me good service.
— from The Rover of the Andes: A Tale of Adventure on South America by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Ralph, however, took upon himself to answer, saying, "I am a guest of Lady Danvers, my good friend, and finding this person in the park, I undertook to show him the way to the gate."
— from The Fate: A Tale of Stirring Times by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James