They were well established in Brazil when only a few villages dotted the eastern coast of what is now the United States.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

In my opinion, nature has given them so much that they never find it necessary to use more than half.”
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

We can understand how a government may find it necessary to use force against its own subjects in order to crush out factions which would weaken the authority of the throne and the national strength; but that it should murder its citizens to compel them to say their prayers in French or Latin, or to recognize the supremacy of a foreign pontiff, is difficult of conception.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

I was not aware of it myself, but I felt it necessary to uphold the institutions of my county, and to evince a familiarity with them; so I shook my head, as much as to say, ‘I believe you!’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

These bones are three in number, the uppermost is the smallest.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

I consider it impossible not to understand a man whose pleasures are known; his will, his power, his striving and knowing, feeling and perceiving cannot be made clearer by any other thing.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

This admission, which has been somewhat hastily made, is now taken up and cross-examined by Socrates:— 'Is justice just, and is holiness holy?
— from Protagoras by Plato

"But although as yet the evil is nearest to us, it will be but a short time before ye will also be exposed to it; therefore it is best that we all consider together what resolution we shall take."
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

In a lodge, however, it is not the usage to propose such a question, but the matter being called up, is discussed and acted on, unless some Brother moves its postponement, when the question of postponement is put.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

GEORGIC IV Of air-born honey, gift of heaven, I now Take up the tale.
— from The Georgics by Virgil

Read then, and when your faces shine With buxom meat and cap'ring wine, Remember us in cups full crown'd, And let our city-health go round, Quite through the young maids and the men, To the ninth number, if not ten; Until the fired chesnuts leap For joy to see the fruits ye reap From the plump chalice and the cup, That tempts till it be tossed up; Then as ye sit about your embers, Call not to mind those fled Decembers, But think on these that are t' appear As daughters to the instant year: Sit crown'd with rosebuds, and carouse
— from The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 by Robert Herrick

For example, in working the first cable, the electricians had thought it necessary to use a very strong battery.
— from The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field

When one writes of mixed motives, and mixed policies, and mixed methods, it is natural to use mixed metaphors.
— from Missionary Survey As An Aid To Intelligent Co-Operation In Foreign Missions by Thomas Cochrane

She opened it mechanically and read: "I have, unfortunately, found it necessary to utilize your fortune for the furtherance of my plans.
— from The Secret House by Edgar Wallace

It is not treating us right to leave us alone so long.
— from Peggy Owen and Liberty by Lucy Foster Madison

It was she who acquainted me with Beranger; that is why I never take up that precious volume that I do not think, sweetly and tenderly, of Fanchonette.
— from The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac by Eugene Field

This verb, when used intransitively, and its irregular preterit durst , which is never transitive, usually take the infinitive after them without to ; as, "I dare do all that may become a man: Who dares do more, is none."— Shakspeare .
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

But from the bottle she could not drink, for her hands being bound behind her, she was able neither to lift it nor to untie the thong that made fast its neck.
— from Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Even then I noticed the unusual color of her eyes—a shade of deep violet—and their soft, confiding expression.
— from My Ántonia by Willa Cather

Therefore death is nothing to us:
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce