345 . humilis , difficilis , and facilis , similis , dissimilis , and gracilis , have the nominative of the superlative in -limus , following l of the stem ( 350 ): as, Positive.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Oak suddenly remembered that eight months before this time he had been fighting against fire in the same spot as desperately as he was fighting against water now—and for a futile love of the same woman.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

With this design he gave orders to fill sacks with chaff, and to hang them down before that place where they saw the ram always battering, that the stroke might be turned aside, or that the place might feel less of the strokes by the yielding nature of the chaff.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Thus for instance, a man from any village in Kiriwina, provided he is in the Kula, may have a partner anywhere up to the furthest limits of the Sinaketa district in the South, and in any of the villages of the island of Kitava to the East.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

"I have told you, friend," said the curate, "that this is done to divert our idle thoughts; and as in well-ordered states games of chess, fives, and billiards are allowed for the diversion of those who do not care, or are not obliged, or are unable to work, so books of this kind are allowed to be printed, on the supposition that, what indeed is the truth, there can be nobody so ignorant as to take any of them for true stories; and if it were permitted me now, and the present company desired it, I could say something about the qualities books of chivalry should possess to be good ones, that would be to the advantage and even to the taste of some; but I hope the time will come when I can communicate my ideas to some one who may be able to mend matters; and in the meantime, senor landlord, believe what I have said, and take your books, and make up your mind about their truth or falsehood, and much good may they do you; and God grant you may not fall lame of the same foot your guest Don Quixote halts on."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He was told that a former lover of the servant girl, an evil-mouthed fellow, was called by that name.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

‘It is not right for Christians to Judaize and abstain from labour on the sabbath, but to work on this same day.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

In North Carolina, Fort Lindsay, on the south side of the Tennessee river at the junction of Nantahala, in Swain county; Fort Scott, at Aquone, farther up Nantahala river, in Macon county; Fort Montgomery, at Robbinsville, in Graham county; Fort Hembrie, at Hayesville, in Clay county; Fort Delaney, at Valleytown, in Cherokee county; Fort Butler, at Murphy, in the same county.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

There strayed in glittering raiment through The courts his royal retinue, Where in wild measure rose and fell The music of the drum and shell, And talk grew loud, and many a dame Of fairest feature went and came Through doors a marvel to behold, With pearl inlaid on burning gold: Therein Gandharvas or the fleet Lords of the storm might joy to meet.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

It may be of interest here to remark that the fate which attended so many of the conquerors of Peru , spared neither Centeno, Hinojosa, nor Valdivia, the three foremost leaders on the side of the President, all of whom were soon afterwards cut off.
— from Spanish and Portuguese South America during the Colonial Period; Vol. 1 of 2 by Robert Grant Watson

Festing noted that the portrait that had hung there had gone, and looking round in search of it, saw a piece of the broken frame lying on the stove.
— from The Girl from Keller's by Harold Bindloss

Instances of this kind are frequent; but the four lines of the single stanzas are never completely rhymed throughout as short-lines, as, for instance, is the case in the opening parts or ‘frontes’ of the stanzas of the poems in Wright’s Spec.
— from A History of English Versification by J. (Jakob) Schipper

[1030] I have met with no further legislation on the subject and presumably some arrangement of this kind was in force to the end.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

His black freedmen had taken sides for Amr, probably more out of hatred against the Egyptians than from love of the Sístánese.
— from Sketches from Eastern History by Theodor Nöldeke

He had, indeed, talked too much, according to Pope; and the poet's morality is oddly illustrated in a letter, in which he complains of Broome's indiscretion for letting out the secret; and explains that, as the facts are so far known, it would now be "unjust and dishonourable" to continue the concealment.
— from Alexander Pope by Leslie Stephen

In the alimentary canal, on 36 the other hand, and in conditions where organic matter is greatly predominating, we may expect to see further light on the subject of antagonism.
— from Bacteria Especially as they are related to the economy of nature, to industrial processes, and to the public health by Newman, George, Sir

Occasionally, however, they appear as real leaves, their vessels are capable of the most minute development, their similarity to the following leaves does not permit us to take them for special organs, but we recognize them instead to be the first leaves of the stalk.
— from A History of Science — Volume 4 by Edward Huntington Williams

Let the full liberty of the slave be secured against all contingencies, by a recorded deed of emancipation, to take effect at a specified time.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various