Further examples of the successive subordination of one clause to another may be seen in the following sentences:— I have passed my latter years in this city, where I am frequently seen in public places, though there are not above half-a-dozen of my select friends that know me .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

In creepers I discern thy form, in eyes of startled hinds thy glances, And in the moon thy lovely face, in peacocks’ plumes thy shining tresses; The sportive frown upon thy brow in flowing waters’ tiny ripples: But never in one place combined can I, alas!
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

It is reported, indeed, that there was an agreement in their words so wonderful, stupendous, and plainly divine, that when they had sat at this work, each one apart (for so it pleased Ptolemy to test their fidelity), they differed from each other in no word which had the same meaning and force, or in the order of the words; but, as if the translators had been one, so what all had translated was one, because in very deed the one Spirit had been in them all.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

But with the great revival of interest in political philosophy there has come a desire for the better understanding of Rousseau's work.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The same phenomenon is indicated in prithee (= pray thee ), and in the spellings gimme (= give me ), lemme
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

pedantear i pedantize, play the pedant.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

In popular parlance the word object is commonly taken without reference to the act of knowledge, and treated as synonymous with individual subject of existence.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Then thus: "In the Beginning was the Thought " This first line let me weigh completely, Lest my impatient pen proceed too fleetly.
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This egoism , then, of which each of us is full, and to conceal which, as our partie honteuse , we have invented politeness , is perpetually peering through every veil cast over it, and may especially be detected in the fact that our dealings with all those, who come across our path, are directed by the one object of trying to find, before everything else, and as if by instinct, a possible means to any of the numerous ends with which we are always engrossed.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

They, if any melancholy or heaviness of thought oppress them, have many means of easing it or doing it away, for that to them, an they have a mind thereto, there lacketh not commodity of going about hearing and seeing many things, fowling, hunting, fishing, riding, gaming and trafficking; each of which means hath, altogether or in part, power to draw the mind unto itself and to divert it from troublous thought, at least for some space of time, whereafter, one way or another, either solacement superveneth or else the annoy groweth less.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

It represents experience in its pristine purity to be now so enveloped in predicates historically worked out that we can think of it as little more than an OTHER, of a THAT, which the mind, in Mr. Bradley's phrase, 'encounters,' and to whose stimulating presence we respond by ways of thinking which we call 'true' in proportion as they facilitate our mental or physical activities and bring us outer power and inner peace.
— from The Meaning of Truth by William James

A ragoo with sweet-breads cut into pieces, pullets tenderly boil'd and cut in long pieces; take truffles and morels, if you have any mushrooms, with a little claret, and throw in your beef, let it stew a quarter of an hour in the ragoo, turning it over sometimes, then take out your beef, and thicken your ragoo with a lump of butter and a little flour.
— from English Housewifery Exemplified in above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts Giving Directions for most Parts of Cookery by Elizabeth Moxon

The spire, which is 219 feet in height from the floor of the church, is in perfect proportion to the rest of the building, both in dimensions and outline, and aids very much the general effect of the whole.
— from A History of Architecture in All Countries, Volume 2, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

'MY DEAREST FATHER, 'Although I cannot write as long a letter as I intended and wish, for lack of time, yet, as there are several vessels in this harbour on the point of sailing for England, I must, after so long an interval, put pen to paper in your behalf.
— from Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir by Biddulph, Elizabeth Philippa, Baroness

To the ordinary investigator of the whimsicalities of “Kidj-o-bang” the blacks betray no secret, though they would verify, with what to them is proof positive, that it does on occasion appear in unexpected places and unaccountably reoccupies its cell.
— from Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

“It is difficult to speak of Herbert,” Mr. Gladstone said later, “because with that singular harmony and singular variety of gifts—every gift of person, every gift of position, every gift of character with which it pleased Providence to bless him—he was one of whom we may well recite words that the great poet of this country has applied to a prince of our early history, cut off by death earlier than his countrymen would have desired:— “ A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman, Framed in the prodigality of nature,
— from The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 2 (of 3) 1859-1880 by John Morley

Almost without exception, it will be found within two or three folders of its proper place; there is scarcely a possibility that a letter from Norton will be filed in White's folder.
— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 01 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence

It is, perhaps, permissible to advance the hypothesis that the personages on the slabs are representatives of the seven tribes and display their totemic devices.
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall

Gregory I , pope, protects the Jews against forced conversions, 3 , 25 , 33 . forbids Jews to own slaves, 3 , 33 , 34 .
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 6 (of 6) Containing a Memoir of the Author by Dr. Philip Bloch, a Chronological Table of Jewish History, an Index to the Whole Work by Heinrich Graetz

Lastly compare the whole with such an account as you or I or Cluvienus would write in plain prose:— Thereupon he climbed a hill on the chance that the view from its summit might disclose some sign of human habitation—a herd, a sheep-cote, a cottage perhaps.
— from On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Arthur Quiller-Couch