The quæstor reproached Gallus in a haughty language, that a prince who was scarcely authorized to remove a municipal magistrate, should presume to imprison a Prætorian præfect; convoked a meeting of the civil and military officers; and required them, in the name of their sovereign, to defend the person and dignity of his representatives.
— 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

Πρόνοια, ας, ἡ, forethought; providence, provident care, Ac. 24.3; provision, Ro. 13.14.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

That would not only be cruel, and everyone would blame me, but it would be stupid on my part.” “Piotr, call a coach; I am going to Petersburg,” he said to his servant.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Among these said tenements was on the same street side a fair entry, or court, to the common hall of the said parish clerks, with proper alms houses, seven in number, adjoining, for poor parish clerks, and their wives and their widows, such as were in great years not able to labour.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Ultimus tandem chalifarum cui sumtus, stipendia, reditus, et thesauri, culinae, caeteraque omnis aulica pompa priorum chalifarum ad instar comparata fuerint.
— 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

And now the cavalry had issued from the open gates, Aeneas and trusty Achates among the foremost, then other of the Trojan princes, Pallas conspicuous amid the column in scarf and inlaid armour; like the Morning Star, when, newly washed in the ocean wave, he shews his holy face in heaven, and melts the darkness away.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

pri ( prep. ), concerning, about, of (160, 264, c).
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Frequently the gulls flew straight over the heads of the youths,—which produced peculiar consequences, as in such cases they took aim while the birds were approaching; but being somewhat slow at taking aim, the gulls were almost perpendicularly above them ere
— from The Young Fur Traders by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

There should be an extra charge for composition from poorly prepared copy, according to the extra amount of time required beyond that necessary in working from copy that can be read easily and followed literally.
— from Proof-Reading A Series of Essays for Readers and Their Employers, and for Authors and Editors by F. Horace (Francis Horace) Teall

Certainly, some of the happiest marriages amongst one's acquaintances are those where the wife has not one perceptible physical charm, and where the whole force of her magnetic value lies in what she is, not in how she looks.
— from The Girl of the Period, and Other Social Essays, Vol. 1 (of 2) by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

He lay in his war-gear, with his weapons and other personal property close at hand.
— from Indian Fights and Fighters: The Soldier and the Sioux by Cyrus Townsend Brady

Miter Hill's players were in poor physical condition and, since the afternoon was warm and close, made a poor showing.
— from Left End Edwards by Ralph Henry Barbour

Dr. Schaff has most ably presented primitive Christianity, and his recent work is both popular and valuable.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

There were dusty roads, a river, and canals, converging towards Boston, which—a congregation of red-tiled roofs—lay beneath our feet, with pigmy people creeping about its narrow streets.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

preuv- , proev- , &c. accented stem of prover .]
— from A Middle English Vocabulary, Designed for use with Sisam's Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose by J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien

The present participle, called also the active participle and the participle in -ing , is formed from the original word by adding -ing ; as, move , moving .
— from The English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham