Sometimes such variations in vowel quantity are only apparent: thus, the occasional long final -ē of the active infinitive ( darē , prōmerē ) has probably a different origin from the usual -ĕ .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

But when he has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

He laid aside his blue goggles, and his white hair, like a frame of silver, surrounded his energetic bronzed features, dimly lighted by a lamp whose flame was dying out from lack of oil.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

The first circumstance, that strikes my eye, is the great resemblance betwixt our impressions and ideas in every other particular, except their degree of force and vivacity.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

kumpas 2 n compass for determining directions or for drawing circles.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He then fixed his residence in the house of a Greek; and soon occupied himself in tracing the faded records of ancient glory upon monuments that apparently, ashamed of chronicling the deeds of freemen only before slaves, had hidden themselves beneath the sheltering soil or many coloured lichen.
— from The Vampyre; a Tale by John William Polidori

It is true, however, that it is not customary to pull down all the houses of a town with the single design of rebuilding them differently, and thereby rendering the streets more handsome; but it often happens that a private individual takes down his own with the view of erecting it anew, and that people are even sometimes constrained to this when their houses are in danger of falling from age, or when the foundations are insecure.
— from Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes

I hear a good deal of French!
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

We never was allowed to have no parties nor dances, only from Christmas Day to New Year's eve.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 by United States. Work Projects Administration

Ten million cubic mètres of rock fell down a depth (on an average) of about 450 mètres, shot across the valley and up the opposite (Düniberg) slope to a height of 100 mètres, where they were bent 25° out of their first direction, and poured, almost like a liquid, over a horizontal plane, covering it, uniformly, throughout a distance of 1500 mètres and over an area of about 900,000 square mètres to a depth of from 10 to 20 mètres.
— from Adventures on the Roof of the World by Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs.

[Pg 177] bomb and fire counter-attack by the enemy destroyed our flanking traverses, wrecked the overhead cover, and pushed our men back, step by step, until we held barely thirty yards of captured trench.
— from New Zealanders at Gallipoli by Fred Waite

The ceiling had, in many places, given way; the laths had been removed; and, where any plaster remained, it was either mapped and blistered with damps, or festooned with dusty cobwebs.
— from Jack Sheppard: A Romance, Vol. 1 (of 3) by William Harrison Ainsworth

By dint of ferreting, she got to know the probable composition of the conseil de révision—barring accidents.
— from An Englishman in Paris: Notes and Recollections by Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam

From that day dated our friendship with Miss Ponsonby, a curious friendship, only carried on from window to window.
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

His chin was slightly cleft, the shape of his face a delicate oval, framed now in the waving masses of his brown wig.
— from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini

"'No one,' he says, 'ought to aspire to these supernatural communications and rest there, for two motives; first, humility, the perfect abnegation of refusing to believe in them; the second, that in acting thus, we deliver ourselves from the labour necessary to assure ourselves whether these vocal visions are true or false, and so we are dispensed from an examination which has no other profit for the soul than loss of time and anxiety.'
— from En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

“Didst thou not witness in the prism the decree of Fate?
— from The Eye of Istar: A Romance of the Land of No Return by William Le Queux