Il ne faut pas m'en vouloir, mon amie, si je tourne an plus plat des romantismes: un clergyman et un médecin, à côte de moi, s'obstinent à jouer les fossoyeurs d'Hamlet.
— from The Silence of Colonel Bramble by André Maurois

It would be satisfactory if these details rested upon contemporary evidence.
— from A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

It would be satisfactory if these details rested upon cotemporary evidence; in which case the next question would Page 4 {4} be that of the relations of the immigrant tribes to each other as Germans , i.e. the extent to which the Jute differed from (or agreed with) the Angle, or the Saxon, and the relations of the Angle and the Saxon to each other.
— from The English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

Some one had tied a string tightly around his tail and the dog ran until completely exhausted.
— from Outdoor Sports and Games by Claude Harris Miller