Oscula qui sumpsit, si non et cetera sumpsit, &c. 5122 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But the Beauforts were not exactly common; some people said they were even worse.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Bob did look dampish, inasmuch as the rain was streaming from his neck, elbows, cuffs, skirts, and knees; and his whole apparel shone so with the wet, that it might have been mistaken for a full suit of prepared oilskin.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The slightest inattention to these was unpardonable, and was visited upon those, under whose care they were placed, with the severest punishment; no excuse could shield them, if the colonel only suspected any want of attention to his horses—a supposition which he frequently indulged, and one which, of course, made the office of old and young Barney a very trying one.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Naturalmente estos colores son los del grano crudo, que no ha sido tostado.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

No excuse could shield Old Barney, if the colonel only suspected something wrong about his horses; and, consequently, he was often punished when faultless.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

His might to wildest rage could wake The sea whose faith naught else can shake, Hurl towering mountains to the earth, And crush e'en foes of heavenly birth.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

But the Romans, especially in negative sentences, often expressed the comparison in this way, Nihil est clārius sōle which, literally translated, is Nothing is brighter away from the sun ; that is, starting from the sun as a standard, nothing is brighter .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

No doubt similar structures, adapted for the same purpose, have often been independently acquired through variation and natural selection by distinct species; but this view will not explain close similarity between distinct species in a multitude of unimportant details.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

There was a bond between them that nothing else could share and nothing could ever break.
— from The Black Fawn by Jim Kjelgaard

This was due, the workers say, partly to the terrible dullness in the trade following the strike, and partly to the fact that they were not entirely closed shops.
— from The Trade Union Woman by Alice Henry

The term, wilful murder, he did not exactly comprehend; so, after laying down the paper, with a beating heart he went to Mrs McShane, and asked her what was the meaning of it.
— from The Poacher; Or, Joseph Rushbrook by Frederick Marryat

Item, she praised the good cheer they had there, and the handsome beer-money that the great lords who often lay there gave the servants which waited upon them; that she herself had more than once received a rose-noble from his princely Highness Duke Ernest Ludewig; moreover, many pretty fellows came there, which might make her fortune, inasmuch as she was a fair woman, and might take her choice of a husband; whereas here in Coserow, where nobody ever came, she might wait till she was old and ugly before she got a curch on her head, &c. Hereat my daughter was beyond measure angered, and answered, "Ah! thou old witch, and who has told thee that I wish to go into service, to get a curch on my head?
— from Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 by Wilhelm Meinhold

And she said we were having too much psychology and not enough common sense in this war!
— from The Tin Soldier by Temple Bailey

Martin's previous experience with the tender passion was not extensive. Circumstance, shyness and fastidiousness had caused him to ignore most of the rather frequent opportunities to philander that his good looks and lively imagination created, and upon the rare occasions when he had paused, it was because of curiosity—a curiosity quickly sated.
— from Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Norman Springer

But he was mad to think he'd lost, And knowing nothing else could save him He didn't care what pain it gave him.
— from The Everlasting Mercy by John Masefield

At the following November election Caleb Saylor beat his Republican opponent by more than three hundred majority.
— from Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Mathew Joseph Holt