1. In this selection note especially the emphasis as shown by the order of the words.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

In the second case one can say nothing except to encourage such princes to provision and fortify their towns, and not on any account to defend the country.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Now early that evening the Caliph secretly left the palace, accompanied by his grand-vizir, Giafar, and Mesrour, chief of the eunuchs, all three wearing the dresses of merchants.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

They drive in the first post, which must have a certain length, say of [ 34 ] five, seven, or nine ells, the ell being measured from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

“I have been rude to you; and my sister is not even at home, so there was not even that excuse.”
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Thus, Columbus discovered America, the Pilgrim Fathers founded New England, the early English settlers colonized Jamestown, and the Dutch built up New York.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

I had been absent abroad nearly two years and four months, and had passed through so many different scenes, that when I returned to England everything seemed perfectly new to me; being deprived of my father so unexpectedly threw me almost into a state of despair, so that I scarcely felt myself equal to undertake the responsibility of following his noble career, which I could never expect to equal.
— from Autobiography of Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., Past President of the Institute of Civil Engineers Comprising the history of his professional life, together with reminiscences dating from the commencement of the century to the present time. by Rennie, John, Sir

Hand, it has been seen, declined to act in the matter of the Richmond without the concurrence of his consul; but I have found no evidence that either Hand or Knappe communicated with de Coetlogon, with whom they were both at daggers drawn.
— from A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Robert Louis Stevenson

And if at last a sanctuary within the Athenian territory is offered to the softened Furies, this is as much as to say that reason is not everywhere to enforce its principles against involuntary instinct, that there are in the human mind certain boundaries which are not to be passed, and all contact with which even every person possessed of a true sentiment of reverence will cautiously avoid, if he would preserve peace within.
— from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by August Wilhelm von Schlegel

A bond of feeling that could not have existed among the Dutch of New York, the Puritans of New England, the English of Virginia, even if they had not been so widely separated geographically.
— from Blue Ridge Country by Jean Thomas

" How men so clear in their convictions of the rights of Africans could be guilty of the most heartless injustice to Quakers and their friends, it is not easy to explain; and yet they mercilessly persecuted one of their own fellow-citizens, Nicholas Upsall, and made him an exile from his home, for no greater crime than that of countenancing and befriending members of the Society of Friends.
— from The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1 by Various

The enemy followed our movement with a heavy column of infantry; but, when they came near enough to exchange shots, they did not seem to like our looks, as we occupied a low ridge of broken rocks, against which even a rat could scarcely have hoped to advance alive; (p. 076) and they again fell back, and opening a tremendous fire of artillery, which was returned by a battery of our guns.
— from Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815 by J. (John) Kincaid

I will shun every error that I might otherwise commit, so that he may have no example to entice him to err."
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66 No.406, August 1849 by Various