If I were asked, at this moment, to say plainly what defects I have discovered in Sir Percival, I could only point out two.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Adj. planned &c. v.; strategic, strategical; planning &c. v.; prepared, in course of preparation &c. 673; under consideration; on the tapis[obs3], on the carpet, on the floor.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

I then gave him a cake of bread out of a little pouch I carried on purpose; I also gave him a dram for himself; but he would not taste it, but carried it to his father.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

[10] A peculiarity of his legislation is that, while he laid down no course of procedure in case of parricide, he speaks of all murder by the name of parricide, as though the one were an abominable, but the other an impossible crime.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Among such verbs are 1 ad´ferô, adfer´re, at´tulî, adlâ´tus , bring to; report ad´sum, ades´se, ad´fuî, adfutû´rus , assist; be present dê´ferô, dêfer´re, dê´tulî, dêlâtus , report; grant, confer dê´sum, dees´se, dê´fuî, —— , be wanting, be lacking în´ferô, înfer´re, in´tulî, inlâ´tus , bring against, bring upon inter´sum, interes´se, inter´fuî, interfutû´rus , take part in occur´rô, occur´rere, occur´rî, occur´sus , run against, meet praefi´ciô, praefi´cere, praefê´cî, praefec´tus , appoint over, place in command of prae´sum, praees´se, prae´fuî, —— , be over, be in command 1.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Among such verbs are 1 ad´ferō, adfer´re, at´tulī, adlā´tus , bring to; report ad´sum, ades´se, ad´fuī, adfutū´rus , assist; be present dē´ferō, dēfer´re, dē´tulī, dēlātus , report; grant, confer dē´sum, dees´se, dē´fuī , ——, be wanting, be lacking īn´ferō, īnfer´re, in´tulī, inlā´tus , bring against, bring upon inter´sum, interes´se, inter´fuī, interfutū´rus , take part in occur´rō, occur´rere, occur´rī, occur´sus , run against, meet praefi´ciō, praefi´cere, praefē´cī, praefec´tus , appoint over, place in command of prae´sum, praees´se, prae´fuī , ——, be over, be in command 1.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Pg 151] led to believe that his vassals were really superior to himself, or to feel that he was placed in command over people as good as himself, for no merits or labours of his own, but merely for having, as Figaro says, taken the trouble to be born.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

Then, the branches are severely cut back; and thereafter, pruning is carried on [Pg 203] annually.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Barrels. 1868 55,369 1869 58,533 1870 83,765 1871 90,030 1872 91,251 1873 104,036 1874 103,177 1875 108,569 1876 111,314 1877 108,599 1878 109,300 1879 110,007 1880 114,321 1881 121,511 1882 136,610 1883 139,486 1884 210,667 1885 193,411 1886 168,606 1887 181,907 1888 218,576 1889 297,666 1890 383,227 1891 488,201 1892 593,175 1893 535,655 1894 507,255 1895 575,200 1896 543,348 1897 570,886 1898 776,238 1899 1,425,777 1900 1,628,535 1901 1,678,320 1902 2,059,935 1903 2,763,117 1904 3,599,026 1905 4,420,987 1906 6,378,184 1907 8,118,207 1908 8,252,157 1909 9,327,278 1910 9,723,806 1911 11,107,450 1912 12,976,232 1913 13,554,768 1914 12,826,578 1915 12,029,913 1916 10,298,208 1917 2,681,870 Mexico’s Remarkable Progress in Crude Oil Production Fourteen years ago, the crude petroleum production in the oil-fields of Mexico was officially recorded for the first time.
— from Petroleum by Albert Lidgett

The allowance of these damages would seem to be a recognition that the invasion upon the honor of the family is an injury to the parent's person, for ordinarily mere injury to parental feelings is not an element of damage, e.g. , the suffering of the parent in case of physical injury to the child.
— from The Right to Privacy by Samuel D. (Samuel Dennis) Warren

She was originally brought from Bruges by a client of Roguin, who soon after left Paris in consequence of political events, presenting her to the notary in 1815.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

It is hardly probable that Dundee seriously expected Hamilton and the Convention to be influenced in the course they were bent on adopting by a letter which, as regarded the past, contained little or nothing but what they had heard already, and which in respect to the future, bound the writer for a very limited period, in consideration of purely private and domestic, and not of political circumstances, except, perhaps, the circumstance that the instructions without which he was not to venture on any act of open hostility had not yet come from Ireland.
— from Viscount Dundee by Louis A. Barbé

To tell such people, that the word porridgepot is compounded of porridge , and pot , is to insult their understandings; and of his Greek and Saxon roots, not one individual in a thousand can read even a single letter.
— from Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from His Works by James Thomson Callender

N the Teatro escogido de Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1868), at present in course of publication by the Royal Academy of Madrid, Calderon's dramas, exclusive of the autos sacramentales, which do not form a part of the collection, are divided into eight classes.
— from The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria A Drama of Early Christian Rome by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

But then, after the truth of the history has been established, and when the trustworthiness of the materials has been admitted, as we proceed to apply a rigid criticism to ambiguous passages, we shall undoubtedly encounter a crowd of perplexing disagreements; and we shall find employment enough for all our acumen, and trial enough of our patience, in clearing our path.
— from Studies of Christianity; Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers by James Martineau

My first assistant was Commander J. Thornton Boswell, whose position is Chief of Pathology at the Naval Medical School, and my other assistant was Lt. Col. Pierre Finck, who is in the wound ballistics section of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
— from Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

In fact, on June 6, 1800, Pius VII. embarked on the Bellona, a small vessel which the Austrian government had placed at his disposal without the courtesy of providing its crew or provisions.
— from The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-Christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham