expeditior = more free ( ex + pes = foot-free ; so impeditus
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Enter Poet, followed by Lucilius, Titinius and Lucius .
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And Hannah herself, the mother of Samuel, who formerly was barren, and afterwards was gladdened with fertility, does not seem to prophesy anything else, when she exultingly pours forth her thanksgiving to the Lord, on yielding up to God the same boy she had born and weaned with the same piety with which she had vowed him.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

In concluding the historical summary of psychological warfare, it is interesting to look at three major points which emerge plainly from the experience of World War II—points which either were not discovered in World War I, or else failed to make an impact on the minds of the responsible officials and informed citizens.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Enter PAGE FOOL.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“The mole has a powerful thorax, just like the bat,” he went on, shutting the box; “the bones and muscles are tremendously developed, the mouth is extraordinarily powerfully furnished.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Receive, O King, thy queen again, Pure, ever pure from spot and stain.” Still stood the king in thoughtful mood
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Long ago she had been sickened by his lying: he was for ever posing, flirting, saying what he did not think, and trying to seem different from what he was and what he ought to be.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

So home, and took a small snap of victuals, and away, with my wife, to the Duke’s house, and there saw “Mustapha,” a most excellent play for words and design as ever I did see.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I recollect nothing more of that day, except that I bent myself to my work with assiduity enough to earn praises from Crossthwaite.
— from Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography by Charles Kingsley

Not a musket was fired by either party; for they, being cut off from the river, were doomed to captivity, and we were going at double-quick against another force.
— from Reminiscences of a Rebel by Wayland Fuller Dunaway

The Galileans, i.e., the people of Galilee, appear to have had a bad name, and it is highly probable that Epictetus simply referred to them, just as he might have said as an equivalent phrase for stupidity, "like the Boeotians."
— from Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Besant

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— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

External piety flourished.
— from A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Sylvester Bliss

ce their extreme paucity, and hence their disproportionate importance in every possible war.] from the accident of being the very first fortified town to those entering Palestine from the side of Egypt.
— from Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey

In the second half of 1992, Rome became unsettled by the prospect of not qualifying to participate in EC plans for economic and monetary union later in the decade; thus it finally began to address its huge fiscal imbalances.
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

He had not sufficient private fortune to permit an immediate union; but the engagement was not likely to be a hopeless or a protracted one, for he had a prospect of early preferment from a nobleman with whom he was connected both by birth and by personal friendship.
— from Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh

The first mention of a travelling post-office occurs in a memorial addressed to Congress in November, 1776, by Ebenezer Hazard, Postmaster-General under the Continental Congress, in which he states that, owing to the frequent removals of the Continental Army, he was subjected to extraordinary expense, difficulties, and fatigues, "having paid an exorbitant price for every necessary of life, and having been obliged, for want of a horse—which could not be procured—to follow the army on foot."
— from The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances by Thomas Curtis Clarke