The past participle proven should be avoided.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

At Claudius's retirement from office the popular party straightway brought him to trial; and though they failed to condemn him, they forced him, by postponing their vote, to commit suicide.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

“Jura, mais un peu tard, qu’on ne l’y prendrait plus” (Swore, but rather too late
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Pulhawus pagsalída sa Binhur, There was a full house when they showed Ben Hur.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

'John Rokesmith being acquainted with your Ma, my love,' said her father, after some slight hesitation, 'I need have no delicacy in hinting before him that you may perhaps find your Ma a little wearing.' 'A little, patient Pa?' said Bella with a tuneful laugh: the tune fuller for being so loving in its tone.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

panawagtawag = pamutingting . see butingting .
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And lest the colorable reasons, offered in argument against this Parliamentary procedure, should be mistaken for the real motives of their conduct, all the advantage of privilege, all the arts and finesses of pleading, and great sums of public money were lavished, to prevent any decision upon those practices in the courts of justice.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

In a few instances the plan proved successful, but usually only where there was some directing leader of integrity and business acumen, such as at Brigham City.
— from Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert by James H. McClintock

The attention and the fears of the Government were accordingly again awakened; and in October, 1664, it was enacted that no printing press should be allowed in any other town or place of the colony than Cambridge; and that no person or persons should be permitted to print anything even there, but by the allowance of at least two of a board of three censors appointed for that purpose.
— from Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

The primary provisions of the Act with regard to the moneys to arise from sales and leases under the powers thereby conferred were: (a) That the moneys should be let out and invested under the direction of the Court in the purchase of Freehold hereditaments or Copyhold hereditaments convenient to be enjoyed therewith; (b) that the premises purchased should be conveyed unto the Trustees for the time being of the Charity and held upon the Trusts, upon which the hereditaments sold would have been held in case the same had not been so sold, and the Act had not been passed; (c) that until the moneys should be so let out page 128 p. 128 and invested they should be invested in Parliamentary stocks or Funds of Great Britain in the name of the Accountant-General; and (d) that the annual produce of such funds should be applied to the person and for the purposes to which the rents of the trust lands would have been applicable.
— from The Annals of Willenhall by Frederick William Hackwood

And three years later still, in Beyond Good and Evil, we read the following passage:— "Psychologists should bethink themselves before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The phosphorus pentoxide should be pure, or rather free from phosphorus and lower oxides; unless this be the case, the vapour arising from it is apt to soil the mercury in the pump.
— from On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

In Lithuania, the Polish language was Polish patriots scatter banished from the schools.
— from A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3) by Edwin Emerson