-in- n dangling earrings with little pellets at the bottom.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The subjunctive past, if I were , becomes present, by being the future of the past; going back to the time when the present was future, and therefore contingent; and this conditional sense involves no difficulty, except when a mistaken adherence to the fancied rules of grammar forces it in where it has no business: thus the rules of some grammarians would lead us to say, if Catiline were ambitious; which is totally contrary to the true sense of the subjunctive.
— from The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827 by Various

'There is no doing elegantly without money, and plenty of it,' said the elder man, looking from under lowered eyelids, in a peculiar way he had, at his son.
— from A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner

I never drank, even without signing."
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

The Bureau of Health is now doing everything within its power to make this district safe, but the attention of all citizens, property owners and tenants is called to the fact that they are required by law to keep their premises free from rats and to abolish all structural conditions of the buildings which favor the harboring of rats.
— from Plague Its Cause and the Manner of its Extension, Its Menace, Its Control and Suppression, Its Diagnosis and Treatment by Thomas Wright Jackson

He is not dead, even where he is denied.
— from The New Jerusalem by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

All war is necessarily demoralizing, even war in defence of glorious principles, and especially in these times; but much more so is unjust, fanatical, and unnecessary war.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages by John Lord

It is not desirable, even were it possible, to close the beautiful avenues of the heart.
— from Character by Samuel Smiles

" The Actors' Equity Association is now doing excellent work in supplying actors for pictures at the lowest possible cost to the actor in the way of commissions.
— from Breaking into the movies by Anita Loos

The technic is not difficult even when all precautions are taken.
— from The Cure of Rupture by Paraffin Injections by Charles Conrad Miller

He threatens me with an inflammation of the integuments of my cerebral nerves:— "Yes, doctor," I told him, "if I committed excess upon excess; but for three years I have been as chaste as a young girl, I never drink either wine or liquors, my food is weighed, and the return of my neuralgia comes less from work than from grief."
— from Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846 by Honoré de Balzac