Modifiers and Complements are classified, and the so-called Independent Elements are discussed.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Then again Arabia is the furthest of inhabited lands in the direction of the midday, and in it alone of all lands grow frankincense and myrrh and cassia and cinnamon and gum-mastich.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Why, sir, in England and Wales alone, there were of these institutions of different sizes; I mean monasteries, and chantries and chapels, and great hospitals; considerably upwards of three thousand; all of them fair buildings, many of them of exquisite beauty.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

If she made any Mistake at Church, and cryed Amen in a wrong Place, they never failed to conclude that she was saying her Prayers backwards.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Luther maintained a corporeal, and Calvin a real, presence of Christ in the eucharist; and the opinion of Zuinglius, that it is no more than a spiritual communion, a simple memorial, has slowly prevailed in the reformed churches.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The works of God are freely given to man, his medicines are common and cheap, and easily to be found.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

One day he said to his father: “I am going to the market place to buy myself a coat, a cap, and a pair of shoes.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Aberu, v. to disembogue Abl, a. able, powerful, wealthy Abledd, n. m. ability, power Abrediad, n. m. transmigration Abredu, v. to transmigrate Abrwysg, a. unwieldy; heavy Abrwysgaw, v. to inebriate Abrwyagl, a. huge, vast, immense Absen, n. f. slander, detraction Absenol, a. absent Absenu, v. to slander, to back bite; to speak ill of any one Absenwr, n. m. backbiter; absentee; slanderer Abwy, n. m. a carcase, a carrion Abwyd, n. m. a bait; fodder Abwydiad, n. m. a baiting, a foddering Abwydo, v. to bait, to feed Abwydwr, n. m. one who baits Abwydyn, n. m. a bait; a worm Abwydyn v. cefn, the spinal cord Ac, see A. Acan, n. f. a saying; accent Acen, n. f. accent Acenawl, a. enunciative Aceniad, n. m. accentuation Acenu, v. to accent, to sound Acw, ad.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

For as it is evident that these have a regular conjunction with motives and circumstances and characters, and as we always draw inferences from one to the other, we must be obliged to acknowledge in words that necessity, which we have already avowed, in every deliberation of our lives, and in every step of our conduct and behaviour.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

1. Ne metue, ne verere, crede inquam mihi, aut consolando, aut consilio, aut rejuvero.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

An's life is but vain; for 'tis subject to pain, and sorrow, and short as a buble; 'tis a hodge podge of business, and mony, and care; and care, and mony, and trouble.
— from The Complete Angler 1653 by Izaak Walton

arreglo m arrangement, compromise, accordance; con—— a in accordance with.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

All the windows had been broken; and though the shutters were shut, the cold night–air blew in at many a crack and cranny, and well–nigh extinguished Mr. Marchmont's candle as he went from room to room looking about him.
— from John Marchmont's Legacy, Volumes 1-3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

I confess myself a Christian, and confess also that I desire to escape from longer serving the false goddess in whom you pretend to believe.
— from Jovinian: A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome by William Henry Giles Kingston

I make no boast of it, and I have no doubt there are numbers of men as capable and clever as I am, only they have either not had the courage to launch out or have missed their opportunities.
— from Toilers of Babylon: A Novel by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

Towards evening he consented to be removed into the shanty, where he was made as comfortable as circumstances admitted of.
— from The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volume 3 (of 4) by John Charles Dent

Modjeska, "a charming and consummate actress" in 1880; the German Shakespearean actors at Drury Lane in 1881; Mary Anderson in 1883; Coquelin in 1887; and Mlle.
— from Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 3 (of 4).—1874-1892 by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

There is such a thing, I suppose, with some of us, as having a kind of devilish pride in faith, as one would say to ordinary mortals and creepers and considerers and arguers “Oh now just see me believe!” We are like boys taking turns jumping in the Great Vacant Lot, seeing which can believe the furthest.
— from The Voice of the Machines An Introduction to the Twentieth Century by Gerald Stanley Lee

And as he thought, the faces of Saxa Lydon and her sister, followed by Sir Cheltnam Burwood, floated out of the mental mist, and complication after complication arose.
— from Nurse Elisia by George Manville Fenn