They co-operate, according to the degree of their development, in collective or tribal purposes, larger ends thus enveloping lesser ones, until an absolutely single, final and climacteric purpose subserved by all things without exception might conceivably be reached.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

She had been working for the public long enough to expect all this, but was distressed beyond measure because she could not make the meetings pay for themselves.
— 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

Sólo a él le está prohibida He is the only one forbidden en este panteón la entrada. to enter this pantheon.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

, the defenceless provinces lay exposed to every invader.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Whilst the public forces of the state were dissipated in private quarrels, the defenceless provinces lay exposed to every invader.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Here, armed with sword and shield, he had actually opposed and held in check one thousand of the enemy, during a period long enough to enable his own men, if they, had been willing, to rally, and effectively to repel the attack.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Be that as it may, they paused long enough to enable me to call to the little band of defenders a final instruction.
— from Turned Adrift by Harry Collingwood

"Ah, the old partisan leader!" exclaimed the emperor.
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

She paused long enough to eat some stuffed shrimp and take a drink of cider, then she went on.
— from The Alembic Plot: A Terran Empire novel by Ann Wilson

Boil the juice, with the hard part, long enough to extract the flavor.
— from A Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Cookery by Juliet Corson

Vessels were now built “carrel” fashion, i.e. , with the planks laid edge to edge, instead of “clincher” built, where the planks overlap one another; for it was considered that the former style of building gave greater strength.
— from A Handbook of Pictorial History by Henry W. Donald

The second was to make the pump large enough to extract both water and air....
— from Historic Inventions by Rupert Sargent Holland

We do not call it so; but the sacrifice is demanded, got ready, and offered by unconscious priests long ere the enterprise succeeds.
— from Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Benj. N. (Benjamin Nicholas) Martin

Language proceeds, like every thing else, through improvement to degeneracy.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson