Verbs in -ēre , and those in -āre and -īre in which the ā or ī is confined to the present system ( 868 , 874 ) usually have parallel nouns formed directly from a root: as, doc-tor , teacher , doc-umentum , lesson , doc-ilis , teachable (√ doc- , docēre ); sec-tor , cutter (√ sec- , secāre ); dom-itor , tamer , dom-inus , master , dom-itus , tamed (√ dom- , domāre ); sarc-ina , package (√ sarc- , sarcīre ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

For, if he is a man of the least spirit, he will have fifty deviations from a straight line to make with this or that party as he goes along, which he can no ways avoid.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

púlak v [AB; c1] 1 fall down from a height, cause s.t. to do so.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The principle we are examining may be called the principle of induction , and its two parts may be stated as follows: (a) When a thing of a certain sort A has been found to be associated with a thing of a certain other sort B, and has never been found dissociated from a thing of the sort B, the greater the number of cases in which A and B have been associated, the greater is the probability that they will be associated in a fresh case in which one of them is known to be present; (b) Under the same circumstances, a sufficient number of cases of association will make the probability of a fresh association nearly a certainty, and will make it approach certainty without limit.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

He did not ride, nor own a wheel, but if Ruth rode, it was up to him to begin, was his decision; and when he said good night, he stopped in at a cyclery on his way home and spent forty dollars for a wheel.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

One night, when Floyd, another poor authour, was wandering about the streets in the night, he found Derrick fast asleep upon a bulk; upon being suddenly waked, Derrick started up, "My dear Floyd, I am sorry to see you in this destitute state; will you go home with me to MY LODGINGS?
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

692–697, 1853; Royce, Cherokee Nation (with map and full discussion), Fifth Ann.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Art regarded as human skill differs from science (as can from know ) as a practical faculty does from a theoretical, as Technic does from Theory (as mensuration from geometry).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

In anticipation of the possible objections of the people of New South Wales to the establishment of a new convict settlement on the continent of Australia, Mr. Gladstone put his foot down firmly, and declared he would admit no such protest.
— from Prisons Over Seas Deportation and Colonization; British and American Prisons of To-day by Arthur Griffiths

As he spoke of autonomous communes and their federation, "Have a care," said Millière; "if you unfurl this flag they will launch all France upon Paris, and I foresee days fatal as those of June.
— from History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagaray

Reduction of the period of experiment by rapidly raising the temperature of the chamber introduces fresh difficulties; for a sudden variation of temperature often acts like an excitatory shock.
— from Life Movements in Plants, Volume I by Jagadis Chandra Bose

It is quite a fair distance for any man with any weapon, particularly the bow.
— from Hunting with the Bow & Arrow by Saxton T. (Saxton Temple) Pope

“What you and your friend did for amusement we can surely do to save our lives.
— from The Day of Wrath: A Story of 1914 by Louis Tracy

Among the early [Pg 102] experiences that were helpful to me that I recollect with pleasure, was one of working a few days for a neighbor digging potatoes—an enterprising and thrifty farmer who could dig a great many potatoes.
— from The Future in America: A Search After Realities by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The whole Trunk is now fully delivered, folded almost double, and the legs and feet are turned up against the face.
— from The Matron's Manual of Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women During Pregnancy and in Childbed Being a Familiar and Practical Treatise, More Especially Intended for the Instruction of Females Themselves, but Adapted Also for Popular Use among Students and Practitioners of Medicine by Frederick Hollick

Who misses me—or what if some few did for a while?
— from A Pessimist in Theory and Practice by Frederic Mayer Bird