101-5: ni tan siquiera : cf. same note, p. 78, 9.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
I shall never forget with what unwillingness Glumdalclitch consented, nor the strict charge she gave the page to be careful of me, bursting at the same time into a flood of tears, as if she had some forboding of what was to happen.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift
And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony- save general ceremony?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
This was done; he was hamstrung, and then set on a certain small island near the shore, called Sævarstad.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson
They had been going over the prisons of London, searching for artistic effects, and in Newgate they suddenly caught sight of Wainewright.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde
The Bishop cleared his throat suggestively; then, recollecting that there was really nothing to say, considerately said nothing, only sat tapping his foot impatiently.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?
— from Queen Victoria by E. Gordon (Edgar Gordon) Browne
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decision."
— from Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine
Had he been pressed he would have said perhaps that he had known the old Maggie intimately, that nothing that she could say or do astonished him, but that this new Maggie was altogether a stranger.
— from The Captives by Hugh Walpole
But there was nothing that she could say, as she took his hand to bid him good-by, except the commonplace that Dr. Leigh had expressed anxiety that he was overworking, and that for the sake of his work he must be more prudent.
— from The Golden House by Charles Dudley Warner
To me, humanity in the mass has ever presented a most absorbing study notwithstanding that almost invariably I find myself in a flurried, not to say confused, state of mind upon being thrust physically into the crowded throng.
— from Fibble, D.D. by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
It is natural that such cases should occur largely in children, where they may come about in some such way as illustrated in the accompanying figures 117 and 118 .
— from Handbook of Medical Entomology by O. A. (Oskar Augustus) Johannsen
And if, to the latest moment of her life, she heed not this solemn charge, she is false, not only to her own sex, but to man and to God.
— from The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey
In the North the same custom seems to have prevailed, for in Beowulf one of the Swedish kings, probably Onela, is married to a sister of the Danish king Hrothgar.
— from The Heroic Age by H. Munro (Hector Munro) Chadwick
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