The accusative in -im is found in many adverbs ( 700 ): as, partim , in part ; in some adverbial expressions: as, adamussim , examussim , to a T , adfatim , to satiety , ad ravim , to hoarseness ; in some names of rivers and cities: as, Tiberim , Hispalim ; and in some Greek words ( 565 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The phrase, infinite period, is simply absurd, and so also are the others.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

The method of fixing the assize of bread, established by the 31st of George II. could not be put in practice in Scotland, on account of a defect in the law, its execution depending upon the office of clerk of the market, which does not exist there.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Percussion instruments producing indefinite sounds.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

People sprang off the pavement: It passed in shouts, it passed by instinct down the hill.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Come now, sinner, suppose the wind of fortune, hitherto so adverse, should turn in our favour, filling the sails of our desires so that safely and without impediment we put into port in some one of those islands I have promised thee, how would it be with thee if on winning it I made thee lord of it?
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Mark well the pilaster, its pedestal, its shaft, its rich entablature, the crowning glory of this superb architecture, the different parts, each in its appropriate place, contributing to the strength, beauty and symmetry of the whole!
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The particular problem I propose is simply this.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

I would make a little provision for this one, for it is an understood thing in our social set that a woman's love should be paid for, in money if she is poor, in presents if she is rich.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

For, whether their supposition be true or no, it is plain they conceive personal identity preserved in something else than identity of substance; as animal identity is preserved in identity of life, and not of substance.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

There are a few men who paint interesting pictures in Spain to-day—Pradilla and Carbonero are among the best; but Spain does not hold a great artist.
— from Velazquez by S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan

"What's past is past," I said scowling.
— from Thieves' Wit: An Everyday Detective Story by Hulbert Footner

The interior stairway has been put in part into sufficiently good condition to enable you to use it, if you at the same time call a little bit of gymnastics to your aid, as you will have to do at a few places.
— from In Search of a Son by William Shepard Walsh

Then take it off from the fire, and put it presently into some clean covers, and let it stand till the next morning; then pour the clear from the bottom and tun it up; putting in a little bag of such spice as you like, whereof Ginger must be the most.
— from The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Kenelm Digby

Preservation is poorest in scales along the line of the neural and haemal arches; therefore lateral line scales are rarely preserved.
— from A New Genus of Pennsylvanian Fish (Crossopterygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas by Joan Echols

There is also a vaguer nascent belief in a creator apart from any natural phenomenon, but the creed for the most part is poetically, indefinitely, stated: 'Most wonder-working of the wonder-working gods, who made heaven and earth'(as above).
— from The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

Between a king and an aristocracy there never can be anything like a sincere attachment, unless the king be content to be recognized as the first member of the patrician order, to be primus inter pares in strict good faith, an agent of his class, but not the sovereign of his kingdom.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Though fate may throw between us The mountains or the sea, No time shall ever wean us, No distance set us free; But around the yearly board, When the flaming pledge is poured, It shall claim every name On the roll of '29.
— from The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 05 Poems of the Class of '29 (1851-1889) by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sir Anthony Love's Pew in particular is so well hedged, that all my Batteries have no Effect.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir