The Principal Parts of a verb are the Present Indicative Active , Present Infinitive Active , Perfect Indicative Active , and Perfect Participle : as, Pres.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

And let us ask what would be the greatest pleasure of such a man, and what the situation which might tempt him to abandon his habitual prudence and pursue this pleasure.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

He used likewise to say, “that when in the course of his life he beheld pilots, and physicians, and philosophers, he thought man the wisest of all animals; but when again he beheld interpreters of dreams, and soothsayers, and those who listened to them, and men puffed up with glory or riches, then he thought that there was not a more foolish animal than man.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

[A Distinguished Provincial at Paris.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

For he subdued all Latium; he captured Suessa Pometia, a powerful and wealthy city, and, becoming possessed of an immense spoil of gold and silver, he accomplished his father’s vow by the building of the Capitol.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

We then went to Trinity College, where he introduced me to Mr. Thomas Warton, with whom we passed a part of the evening.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

(2) What a man has: that is, property and possessions of every kind.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

[17] but he who is one himself, a pedant but a pedant, a provincial but a provincial; and I would wager it was the printer who put it on the title of Letters to a Provincial .
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Pierre continually glanced at Prince Andrew; Prince Andrew rubbed his forehead with his small hand.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

How bravely did they stand to their pan-puddings, and paid off their dust!
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The pegs are put down one at a time alternately upon any point upon the Morris, and the first person who makes a consecutive row of three impounds one of his opponent’s pegs.
— from The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2) With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc. by Alice Bertha Gomme

Even working-class people and peasants obtain education in order to become men, while you, a Poloznev, with ancestors of rank and distinction, aspire to the gutter!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

For a full hour we waited—I, sitting on my horse, partly from pride and partly from the instinctive feeling of a horseman that he is always safer on his horse; the others dismounted, and sat down on a stucco bench, looking the picture of misery and discontent.
— from Mogreb-el-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

Speaking of works of piety and pity, much needed in those days, the speaker advocates charity to the poor students at the two national universities.
— from The Eve of the Reformation Studies in the Religious Life and Thought of the English people in the Period Preceding the Rejection of the Roman jurisdiction by Henry VIII by Francis Aidan Gasquet

All the fine weapons which they had been obliged to purchase at their own expense, when they had been arranged by the magistrates under eight banners, for defence of the city against tumult and invasion, were taken from them; the most beautiful cutlasses, carbines, poniards, and pistols, being divided by Noircarmes among his officers.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley

The institutions of Valentinian contributed to secure the benefits of peace and plenty; and the cities were guarded by the establishment of the Defensors; 62 freely elected as the tribunes and advocates of the people, to support their rights, and to expose their grievances, before the tribunals of the civil magistrates, or even at the foot of the Imperial throne.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Edward Gibbon

I have made that end tight; and now I take another piece and put it in: it will confine the air that is within the tube perfectly and completely for our purpose; and I shall now find it absolutely impossible by any force of mine to drive that little pellet close up to the other.
— from The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday

The section passes through the kidneys, k , the edge of one posterior appendage, pa , the large intestine, il , and two regions of the small intestine, i .
— from Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by A. M. (Albert Moore) Reese

It was written with the object of making the British people and President Krüger alike aware how grave was the judgment which he had formed of the existing situation.
— from Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by W. Basil (William Basil) Worsfold