The parts you have had before are given for review, and the perfect participle is the only new form for you to learn.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Having traced for three full centuries their gradual evolution from a savage tribe to a civilized Christian nation, with a national constitution and national press printed in their own national alphabet, we can afford to leave the rest to others, the principal materials being readily accessible in the Cherokee national archives at Tahlequah, in the files of the Cherokee Advocate and other newspapers published in the Nation, and in the annual reports and other documents of the Indian office.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

These are all verbs that you have had before, and the perfect is the only new form to be learned. 200.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The two pale and incurably melancholy old men who held on tenaciously to their posts in the orchestra, notwithstanding their right to a pension, stared at Spontini with real fright, reading a threat in his words, and I had to explain Spontini's wish in sober language in order to call them back to life.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

It will be said my time was well employed, and not a little of it passed in this occupation, nor did I quit my first essay till unable to persist in it, for on leaving my apartment I had the appearance of a corpse, and had I continued this course much longer I should certainly have been one.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The reason why no one and the same thing is invariably pleasant is that our nature is, not simple, but complex, involving something different from itself (so far as we are corruptible beings).
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

A chaise was sent for from Crewkherne, and Charles conveyed back a far more useful person in the old nursery-maid of the family, one who having brought up all the children, and seen the very last, the lingering and long-petted Master Harry, sent to school after his brothers, was now living in her deserted nursery to mend stockings and dress all the blains and bruises she could get near her, and who, consequently, was only too happy in being allowed to go and help nurse dear Miss Louisa.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

But a great question now presented itself to our notice, and one we were actually afraid to contemplate in all its bearings.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Professor Prescott announced also that the best materials for coffee-making utensils were glass (including agate-ware, vitrified ware, porcelain, etc.), aluminum, nickel or silver plate, copper, and tin plate, in the order named [381] .
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I am sure I do not know what they put in tick ointment; nor, for the purpose, did it greatly matter.
— from African Camp Fires by Stewart Edward White

N ext vnto these Clayes, which are soiles simple and vncompound, as being perfect in their owne natures, without the helpe of other mixtures, I place the Sand soiles, as being of like qualitie, not borrowing any thing but from their owne natures, nor bréeding any defects more then their owne naturall imperfections: and of Sands, sith the red Sand is the best and most fruitfull, therefore it is fit that it take prioritie of place, and be here first spoken of.
— from The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments by Gervase Markham

If it is said that we cannot imagine ministers who have received such a power, for that remission of sins must belong to God only, I answer, 'Most assuredly ministers can neither remit sins nor punishments in their own name.'
— from The Gospel of St. John: A Series of Discourses. New Edition by Frederick Denison Maurice

"Her picture is the only Negro's picture that is allowed to hang in the show glasses of the white photographers down town.
— from Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem. A Novel by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs

In the Florentine archives I owe much to Francis Philip Nast, Esq., to Professor Felice Tocco, and to Doctor Giuseppe Papaleoni; in those of Naples, to the Superintendent Cav.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

In her heart she apologized to George Cannon, once more, for having allowed her mother to persuade her, even for a day, that that attempt to buy was merely a trick on his part invented to open negotiations for the rent-collecting.
— from Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett

It was known that the removal could not be effected without danger; for the mob, and especially the lazzaroni, were attached to the king; and as at this time they felt a natural presumption in their own numbers and strength, they insisted that he should not leave Naples.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

She will describe the whole thing in her own manner: sitting, in each place of performance, in the orchestra, next the gentleman who plays the kettle-drums.
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

The following Scriptures show these points in the order named:
— from The Harp of God: Proof Conclusive That Millions Now Living Will Never Die by J. F. (Joseph Franklin) Rutherford