Señora doña Perfecta, señor D. Inocencio, por el alma de mi padre, por el alma de mi abuelo, por la salvación de la mía, juro que deseo morir.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The past passive participle expresses an act or condition as having been undergone by the person or thing indicated by the word modified.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Many adjectives: as, ingēns , gigantic , Ab. -ī ( 559 ); Vēiēns , of Vei ; compounds of mēns : as, āmēns , out of one’s head ; of dēns : as, tridēns , Ab. -ī , as substantive usually -e . -eps , -ipitis Adjective compounds of caput , head : anceps ( 543 ), two-headed , once older ancipēs (Plaut.); biceps , two-headed ; triceps , three-headed ; praeceps , head-first , old praecipēs (Plaut.; Enn.), Ab. -ī ( 559 ), no G. Pl., Ne. Pl. N. and Ac. -ia .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

pettei te tautên kai apolauei prostitheisa pan ex autês to chrêston tois heautês chitôsi, ta men entera teleôs homoiôsei ton prosphynta chymon, hôsautôs de kai to hêpar.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

It was no light act of courage in those days, my dear boys, for a little fellow to say his prayers publicly, even at Rugby.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Scribonius Largus says that in epistaxis the nose may be plugged with sponge: Proderit et spongeae particulam praesectam apte forfice ad amplitudinem et patorem narium figuratam inicere paulo pressius ex aceto per se (xlvi).
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

I saw a big buffalo with mud-stained hide, standing near the river with placid, patient eyes; and a youth, knee deep in water, calling it to its bath.
— from The Gardener by Rabindranath Tagore

[178] of the spirit of the wearers, who testified that they held things temporal in contempt whenas they wrapped their bodies in so mean a habit,—those of our time have them made full and double and glossy and of the finest cloth and have brought them to a quaint pontifical cut, insomuch that they think it no shame to flaunt it withal peacock-wise, in the churches and public places, even as do the laity with their apparel; and like as with the sweep-net the fisher goeth about to take many fishes in the river at one cast, even so these, wrapping themselves about with the amplest of skirts, study to entangle therein great store of prudish maids and widows and many other silly women and men, and this is their chief concern over any other exercise; wherefore, to speak more plainly, they have not the friar's gown, but only the colours thereof.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

The boundary line of his dominions was never clearly defined; but his principal park embraced a circuit of fifty miles.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Questo piccolo porco E a casa restato.
— from Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 1 (of 4).—1841-1857 by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

It may be noted at the outset that advertising in periodical publications exercises a reflex influence upon these publications.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

“Pooh! pooh!” ejaculated an irascible old gentleman with a bald head.
— from The Battery and the Boiler: Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Interest your pupils in their own local parks, preserves, etc., and if they have farms or wood-lots, have them post them and set them aside as their personal sanctuaries for wild life.
— from Summer by Dallas Lore Sharp

CREATIVE CHEMISTRY La Chimie posséde cette faculté créatrice à un degré plus éminent que les autres sciences, parce qu'elle pénètre plus profondément et atteint jusqu'aux éléments naturels des êtres.
— from Creative Chemistry: Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson

Remembering England's attitude during the annexation crisis, when public opinion sympathized with Serbian rights to Bosnia and her kindly favoring of national movements in the time of Lord Byron and that of Garibaldi, one thing and another indicated so strongly the improbability of British support of the proposed punitive expedition against the Archduke's murderers, that I felt bound to issue a serious warning.
— from Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various

It is not surprising to find various popes passing edicts against this new and growingly influential form of public entertainment.
— from How to See a Play by Richard Burton

When I was in your country I often heard it said that the Irish were generally considered as a debased and perfidious people, extremely addicted to profligacy and drunkenness, and, when once drunk, more cruelly ferocious than even our Jacobins.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

But finding that I was determined not to go beyond the line of my duty to indulge him in the first—nor to exceed the strictest rules of propriety to gratify him in the second—he became my inveterate enemy; and he has, I am persuaded, practised every art to do me an injury, even at the expense of reprobating a measure that did not succeed, that he himself advised to.
— from Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de