Railroad surveying and real-estate operations were at a standstill during the winter in Missouri, and the young men had taken advantage of the lull to come east, Philip to see if there was any disposition in his friends, the railway contractors, to give him a share in the Salt Lick Union Pacific Extension, and Harry to open out to his uncle the prospects of the new city at Stone’s Landing, and to procure congressional appropriations for the harbor and for making Goose Run navigable.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Crudelis ubique / Luctus, ubique pavor, et 30 plurima mortis imago —Everywhere is heart-rending wail, everywhere consternation, and death in a thousand shapes. Virg.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Il me semble que le "fait" technologique de l'appareil nuit à une lecture un peu "engagée".
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

ANT: Liberal, unsparing, profuse, extravagant, Parson, [See CLERGYMAN].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

It may be mentioned here, that in subordinate sentences the historical perfect is sometimes loosely used from the writer’s point of view, instead of the more exact pluperfect demanded by the context: as, aliquantum spatiī ex eō locō, ubī̆ pugnātum est, aufūgerat , L. 1, 25, 8, he had run off some distance from the spot where the fighting had occurred .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

You may even experience the worst of all: losing unread private email on your hard disk.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Let us prepare everything, but it is not yet time to take the field; I myself will indicate the place and will inform you of the time.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

It has been shown how a whole series of preliminary operations, lustrations, unctions, prayers, etc., transform the animal to be immolated into a sacred thing, whose sacredness is subsequently transferred to the worshipper who eats it.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

“Let us then consider the matter as settled, so far as we are concerned, Harry,” said Roger; “and let us pledge each other to sail together; to stand by each other through thick and thin, through fair and foul; to share all dangers; and to divide equally all plunder that we may obtain from the rascally Dons.
— from Across the Spanish Main: A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess by Harry Collingwood

Let us trust, therefore, that he has died penitent, and that his sufferings are already over; and let us pray, ere we lay us down to sleep, that his sins may be forgiven to him, and that his soul may have rest."
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Various

Longe utique praestantius est, nosse resurrecturam carnem ac sine fine victuram , quam quidquid in ea medici , scrutando discere potuerunt.—Augustinus (de Anima et ejus orig.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach

We may therefore perhaps look on it as a proved point that the general savage habit of "levelling up" prevails even in their view of the vegetable world, and has left traces (as we have seen) in their myths.
— from Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

those all Moors, the Slaves of Abdelazer ) That ‘tis impossible in any other Habit to escape. Come, haste with me, and let us put ‘em on.
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Aphra Behn

[103] This is told most fully by Regino (887): 'Porro Nordmanni audientes appropinquare exercitum, foderant foveas, latitudinis unius pedis et profunditatis trium, in circuitu castrorum, easque quisquiliis et stipulâ operuerant, semitas tantum discursui necessarias intactas reservantes.'
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

Without ignoring other elements in their belief, the stress laid upon personal experience and its intensity led them far and wide.
— from Two Centuries of New Milford Connecticut An Account of the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the Town Held June 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1907, With a Number of Historical Articles and Reminiscences by Various

Let us pray earnestly to God for these souls in the night of error.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various