An attempt to include archaic, poetical, and rare forms in the same list with the usual modern forms is sure to mislead the pupil.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

What is yet more strange, he used to work doing nothing, and did nothing though he worked; caroused sleeping, and slept carousing, with his eyes open, like the hares in our country, for fear of being taken napping by the Chitterlings, his inveterate enemies; biting he laughed, and laughing bit; eat nothing fasting, and fasted eating nothing; mumbled upon suspicion, drank by imagination, swam on the tops of high steeples, dried his clothes in ponds and rivers, fished in the air, and there used to catch decumane lobsters; hunted at the bottom of the herring-pond, and caught there ibexes, stamboucs, chamois, and other wild goats; used to put out the eyes of all the crows which he took sneakingly; feared nothing but his own shadow and the cries of fat kids; used to gad abroad some days, like a truant schoolboy; played with the ropes of bells on festival days of saints; made a mallet of his fist, and writ on hairy parchment prognostications and almanacks with his huge pin-case.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

It was lxxxvi agreed that they were to be lovers of their country, 503 and were to be tested in the refiner’s fire of pleasures and pains, and those who came forth pure and remained fixed in their principles were to have honours and rewards in life and after death.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

It was agreed that they were to be lovers of their country, and were to be tested in the refiner's fire of pleasures and pains, and those who came forth pure and remained fixed in their principles were to have honours and rewards in life and after death.
— from The Republic by Plato

There is no sickness almost but physic provideth a remedy for it; to every sore chirurgery will provide a slave; friendship helps poverty; hope of liberty easeth imprisonment; suit and favour revoke banishment; authority and time wear away reproach: but what physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favour, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

He didn’t make it, but he wasn’t discouraged, and the next year he made the sophomore team; they let him play at right field, I think.
— from The Spirit of the School by Ralph Henry Barbour

With all this clash and brilliance, as if they existed because of her, and were a part of her presence, appeared Ruth Fuller in the act of passing Ezra's house.
— from Aunt Rachel A Rustic Sentimental Comedy by David Christie Murray

He pulled out a sheet of paper and read from it the sum that Germany spent annually on her army.
— from 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? by Franz Adam Beyerlein

About thirty hours after the entrance into the blood corpuscles, the parasites are rarely found in the peripheral blood, but they are present in the internal organs, and especially in the spleen.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

He told us, in confidence, that the Chinese were jealous of our being at Lha-Ssa; but that we might count on his protection, and reside freely in the country, without any one having a right to interfere with us.
— from Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 2 by Evariste Régis Huc

To this Henry refused to consent, but summoned a Parliament, the Speaker of which was Thomas Chaucer, the son of the great poet, and received from it the unwontedly liberal supply of two-tenths and two-fifteenths.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses by Anonymous

But if any person should withstand their gentle solicitations, alleging either poverty or some other pretence which the commissioners should deem unfit to be allowed, then after failure of persuasions and reproaches for ingratitude, they were to command his attendance before the privy council, at such time as they should appoint, to whom they were to certify his behaviour, enjoining him silence in the meantime, that his evil example might not corrupt the better disposed.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 1 of 3 by Henry Hallam

"She treated him," said Lamartine, "with a marked favor which promised a royal friendship, if the future cardinal had seen in the most beautiful of women anything else than the delight of the eye."
— from The Spell of the Heart of France: The Towns, Villages and Chateaus about Paris by André Hallays

It intimated as much to Falkner on the tenth and last day of the storm, when it began very business-like operations of building a nest of paper and rabbits' fur in the coat pocket.
— from Back to God's Country and Other Stories by James Oliver Curwood