The auxiliary verb may be separated from the rest of the verb-phrase by other words.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

This must be some flattering vision of my distempered fancy!
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Then his grand movement, which seemed to rise out of a thicket of curling hair, that spread from the root all over his thighs and belly up to the navel, stood stiff and upright, but of a size to frighten me, by sympathy for the small tender part which was the object of its fury, and which now lay exposed to my fairest view; for he had, immediately on stoppings off his shirt, gently pushed her down on the couch, which stood conveniently to break her willing fall.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

Thence to my lute, upon which I have not played a week or two, and trying over the two songs of “Nulla, nulla,” &c., and “Gaze not on Swans,” which Mr. Berkenshaw set for me a little while ago, I find them most incomparable songs as he has set them, of which I am not a little proud, because I am sure none in the world has them but myself, not so much as he himself that set them.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Every now and then it would be reported that Mr. W. had passed stealthily through Esmeralda at dead of night, in disguise, and then we would have a wild excitement—because he must be steering for his secret mine, and now was the time to follow him.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

So Herod endeavored to rectify this inconvenience, and laid out such a compass towards the land as might be sufficient for a haven, wherein the great ships might lie in safety; and this he effected by letting down vast stones of above fifty feet in length, not less than eighteen in breadth, and nine in depth, into twenty fathom deep; and as some were lesser, so were others bigger than those dimensions.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

[Pg 50] Assuming, then, that every social group may be presumed to have its own ( a ) administrative, ( b ) legislative, and ( c ) human-nature problems, these problems may be still further classified with reference to the type of social group.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

There are two prima facie rational Ends, Excellence or Perfection and Happiness: of which the latter at least may be sought for oneself or universally.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

“So probably men led to execution clutch mentally at every object that meets them on the way,” flashed through his mind, but simply flashed, like lightning; he made haste to dismiss this thought....
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Xury said it was a lion, and it might be so for aught
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The ascending bubbles from his helmet, for instance, shine silver white and may be seen for a couple of fathoms.
— from Careers of Danger and Daring by Cleveland Moffett

As may be supposed, from the intricacy of the thickets and the closeness of the trees, very slow progress could be made by people encumbered in any way as the robbers were, and thus scarce three minutes had passed before Don Luis perceived them a short distance in advance, they being unconscious, from not hearing his horse’s hoofs on the soft grass, that they were pursued.
— from The Prime Minister by William Henry Giles Kingston

For his people, and, we may be sure, for himself, Moses recognises no true worth save in so far as he or they were useful in carrying out Divine purposes of good to the world.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Deuteronomy by Andrew Harper

How austere the discipline was may be seen from a summary of its rules: Confessing faith in God, an Apprentice vowed to honor the Church, the State, and the Master under whom he served, agreeing not to absent himself from the service of the order, by day or night, save with the license of the Master.
— from The Builders: A Story and Study of Masonry by Joseph Fort Newton

It only remains to express our hope that the aquarium may be soon finished; but before this is done it will be necessary to get possession of that unfortunate little road.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 by Various

Gainsbro' was, at that particular period, somewhat fertile in the production of eccentric folk, for Joe Hornby was then to be seen in it, with his hat stuck full of field flowers, and sometimes, to the peril of its "crown," fixed on his head wrong side upwards, because "the world was turned upside down;" and the septuagenarian spinster, Nelly Fish, might be seen flaunting along the narrow causeway, her strange pile of five or six straw hats, which she wore one upon another, to show that "she knew all the fashions 160 that had been, as well as those that were;"—and Martin Jackson would, ever and anon, sally forth in some odd guise that demonstrated his lunacy; for to-day he might be seen covered with papers on which were written all kinds of queer criticisms on the rulers of the day, and to-morrow he would go through the streets clad in his wife's chemise for an outer robe, and wearing an old horseman's helmet with a fox's tail for a plume, while half-a-dozen terriers yelped away at his heels, following thick and fast to the mad hunter's cries of "Yo-ho!
— from Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume 1 (of 2) by Thomas Cooper

" I must confess that my mind being so full of Betty, I had clean forgotten Tufton.
— from The Red Planet by William John Locke

For the present its beauty is not heightened by the new Postal Department, a massive but somewhat forbidding structure in grey granite, which dominates and frowns upon the whole street.
— from America To-day, Observations and Reflections by William Archer