the present participle is sometimes used: as, nūllō hoste prohibente incolumem legiōnem in Nantuātīs perdūxit , 3, 6, 5, with no enemy hindering, he conducted the legion in safety to the Nantuates .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Seizing the moment when the rocks once more separated, the Argonauts worked at their oars with all their might, and achieved the perilous passage in safety.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Facsimile of the WILL of MARCO POLO, preserved in St. Mark's Library.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

M y impatience to inhabit the Hermitage not permitting me to wait until the return of fine weather, the moment my lodging was prepared I hastened to take possession of it, to the great amusement of the ‘Coterie Holbachique’, which publicly predicted I should not be able to support solitude for three months, and that I should unsuccessfully return to Paris, and live there as they did.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If he had not suspected poor Penelope, I should have pitied him.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Permanence, perseverance, persistence in spite 30 of hindrances, discouragements, and "impossibilities:" it is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak; the civilised burgher from the nomadic savage—the species Man from the genus Ape. Carlyle.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

"Even this event cannot dwarf into what may be the proper perspective in star systems the fact that the Germans are again only one leap from Paris," said Gertrude restlessly.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Natúlug pa si Pidru, Pedro is still asleep.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

2. That the air, the soil, and the climate of Rome have suffered a great and visible alteration, (Réflexions sur la Poësie et sur la Peinture, part ii. sect.
— 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

Yet, though this rule is generally right, I cannot but recommend a precept of Pardie's[2], that when the student cannot be made to comprehend some particular part, it should be, for that time, laid aside, till new light shall arise from subsequent observation.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson

Whether the poorer pipe is still made and sold to other customers I have no means of knowing; probably it is, however.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 by Various

Si quis sacrae Scripturae libros integros cum omnibus suis partibus, prout illos sancta Tridentina Synodus recensuit, pro sacris et canonicis non susceperit, aut eos divinitus inspiratos esse negaverit; anathema sit.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

As Florence, who was among the foremost, reached its summit, she turned on her pony, and gazed down on the little cavalcade, winding along up the narrow, precipitous path in single file, with the guides hurrying from one bridle to another, as a more difficult and dangerous place occurred in the rough way.
— from Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Effie Afton

" The present writer does not profess any ability to handle philosophic problems philosophically; it seems to him, however, that if Chesterton had been writing a few years later, he would have attempted to extinguish the latest form of the Inner Light, that "intuition" which has been so much associated with M. Bergson's teachings.
— from G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by Julius West

Having thus gone over some of the principal points in support of independence, I must now request the reader to return back with me to the period when it first began to be a public doctrine, and to examine the progress it has made among the various classes of men.
— from The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): The American Crisis by Thomas Paine

And she liked her far waur after she was obliged to send her L20; for she said Miss Bertram, no content wi' letting the Ellangowan property pass into strange hands, owing to her being a lass and no a lad, was coming, by her poverty, to be a burden and a disgrace to Singleside too.
— from Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete by Walter Scott

"At present—but in the future of all possible possibilities?" "I shall undoubtedly go there.
— from Don Orsino by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford