Lentulus tribunus militum cum praetervehens equo sedentem in saxo cruore oppletum consulem vidisset, ‘L. Aemili’ inquit, ‘quem unum insontem culpae cladis hodiernae dei respicere debent, cape hunc equum, dum et tibi virium aliquid superest, 5 et comes ego te tollere possum ac protegere.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

After sending two officers from the nearest troops to explain the condition to Steele, and to warn every officer they met to pass the word for everybody to be on the sharp lookout, I arranged with Deshler to keep quiet until I could bring his own commander, or orders from him.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The offspring from the first cross between two pure breeds is tolerably and sometimes (as I have found with pigeons) quite uniform in character, and every thing seems simple enough; but when these mongrels are crossed one with another for several generations, hardly two of them are alike, and then the difficulty of the task becomes manifest.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

[483] Quintilian uses it commonly in the sense of antithesis.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Now, Tom was not fond of quarrelling, unless it could soon be put an end to by a fair stand-up fight with an adversary whom he had every chance of thrashing; and his father's irritable talk made him uncomfortable, though he never accounted to himself for the feeling, or conceived the notion that his father was faulty in this respect.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

In view of this indissoluble conflict, when he had at last been brought before the forum of the Greek state, there was only one punishment demanded, namely exile; he might have been sped across the borders as something thoroughly enigmatical, irrubricable and inexplicable, and so posterity would have been quite unjustified in charging the Athenians with a deed of ignominy.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

la Chaise, where they will remain in peace and quiet until it comes time for them to get up and move again.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Then, turning round as if I wished to resume my slumbers, I remained very quiet until I could suppose them fast asleep; at all events, if they did not sleep, they were at liberty to pretend to do so.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

As I found he was permitted to go quite unnoticed, I could not forbear enquiring who he was.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

She knew full well how to make the most of her attractions, and though she has often declared since to me that the pose was quite unpremeditated, I could never quite believe her.
— from The Motor Pirate by G. Sidney Paternoster

The same result follows, for different reasons, in the case of almost all the earlier mediæval maps and charts, [237] which are quite unscientific in character, and often rather picture books of natural history legends than delineations of the world.
— from The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Vol. II by Gomes Eannes de Zurara

"I left it an open question, until I consulted you and Cyrus.
— from The Disappearing Eye by Fergus Hume

[Pg 241] portation of purple dye, which was found in great quantities upon its coast.
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 1 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

But flight was out of the question, unless I could get a boat and some provisions, and I had neither.
— from In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories by Andrew Lang

Then, quite unexpectedly, I came out upon the island's point and saw a dark figure outlined between the water and the sky.
— from The Willows by Algernon Blackwood

Impressu m q ue in celiberi⸗|ma vniuersitate Oxoniensi per me Ioannem Sco⸗|lar in viculo diui Ioannis baptiste moram trahentem |
— from The Early Oxford Press A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations by Falconer Madan