n. mark, sign, ornament : cross, crucifix : armour, harness, sword : measure , Lcd : (†) time, point of time, occasion, season : time for eating , ‘ meal ,’ meals , CP ; Æ. II.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

But that saying, "To thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever," may move some, if by "for ever" they understand "to eternity."
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Then the other ladies joined in with condolences and the never-failing suggestions which they had ready for every mental malady.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

A great many other English words are derived from the Latin of this passage—e.g. pugnacious , (with) celerity , fact , except , military , manual , super -sede, vulnerable , hostile , sinister , uni- corn , and many others.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

You knew nothing of me, or my family, and, therefore, there could be no OCCASION for ever mentioning my name to you; and, as he was always particularly afraid of his sister's suspecting any thing, THAT was reason enough for his not mentioning it.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Marmeladov’s question came suddenly into his mind, “for every man must have somewhere to turn....” He gave a sudden start; another thought, that he had had yesterday, slipped back into his mind.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For ever may my knees grow to the earth, [Kneels]
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I trotted up their garden, and was turning round to the back, when that fellow Earnshaw met me, took my bridle, and bid me go in by the front entrance.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

For every member must be quite willing to perish for the body, for which alone the whole is.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Ça peut être également une place de foires et marchés, mais l'argent n'y a cours que très accessoirement, même si la possibilité de vendre en ligne est réelle et ne doit pas être négligée ni méprisée.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Did such a mad fancy enter my mind, I had dispelled it as something as impossible as Heaven might be to a lost soul.
— from Mistress Nancy Molesworth: A Tale of Adventure by Joseph Hocking

A downward jump of thirty feet here, another of fifty-five feet at the Mirafiores Locks, a level sail for eight miles more, and they would emerge on the broad bosom of the Pacific.
— from Bert Wilson at Panama by J. W. Duffield

The change that a few experienced men made in that deserted camp in a short time was wonderful.
— from The Haunted Mine by Harry Castlemon

The facts were as follows: "Every morning my grandmother would pray, and old man Heard despised to hear any one pray saying they were only doing so that they might become free niggers.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

Common politeness, by the Japanese code, exacts this attitude from every manly man; moreover, it is the only safe one.
— from Kimiko, and Other Japanese Sketches by Lafcadio Hearn

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— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

She listened to Annorah’s continued account of what she had learned from the Bible with the greatest interest, feeling every moment more and more disposed to accept its teaching, and less and less disposed to blindly submit to the priest.
— from Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and her Irish Nurse by Anonymous

"'The action of the Trustees, on certain resolutions of the Merrimack County Conference of Churches, virtually imposes such a test, inasmuch as it implicitly represents and censures me as having become injurious to the college, not on account of any official malfeasance or delinquency, for, on the contrary, its commendations of my personal and official character and conduct during my long term of service, far exceed my merits; but, for my opinions and publications on questions of Biblical
— from The History of Dartmouth College by Baxter Perry Smith

My mother had not forgotten the sad end of M. Vinteuil's life, his complete absorption, first in having to play both mother and nursery-maid to his daughter, and, later, in the suffering which she had caused him; she could see the tortured expression which was never absent from the old man's face in those terrible last years; she knew that he had definitely abandoned the task of transcribing in fair copies the whole of his later work, the poor little pieces, we imagined, of an old music-master, a retired village organist, which, we assumed, were of little or no value in themselves, though we did not despise them, because they were of such great value to him and had been the chief motive of his life before he sacrificed them to his daughter; pieces which, being mostly not even written down, but recorded only in his memory, while the rest were scribbled on loose sheets of paper, and quite illegible, must now remain unknown for ever; my mother thought, also, of that other and still more cruel renunciation to which M. Vinteuil had been driven, that of seeing the girl happily settled, with an honest and respectable future; when she called to mind all this utter and crushing misery that had come upon my aunts' old music-master, she was moved to very real grief, and shuddered to think of that other grief, so different in its bitterness,
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Thus, for example, MM. Maret, de Champagny, and Savary evinced a ready obedience to Bonaparte's wishes, which often proved very unfortunate, though doubtless dictated by the best intentions on their part.
— from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 06 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne