Among eight military tribunes there was no room even for one plebeian.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

For several minutes Pollyanna sat in silence, her rueful eyes fixed on the forlorn heap of garments on the bed.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

only tribunes-elect (= designati ), for the tribunes could not leave Rome even for one night.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

The period is called happy or unhappy merely as its ideal representation exercises fascination or repulsion over the present will.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

It is the extent and accuracy of steps three and four which mark off a distinctive reflective experience from one on the trial and error plane.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Fluvius Rhēnus est fīnitimus oppidīs 1 multīs et clārīs.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Thus three results ensued from one idea.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Our real exhilaration from one glass of wine is gone for ever, gone is Agasha, gone the bream with boiled grain, gone the uproar that greeted every little startling incident at dinner, such as the cat and dog fighting under the table, or Katya’s bandage falling off her face into her soup-plate.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

rumantiku a 1 romantic, evoking feelings of amorousness or sentimentality.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

On being returned to his master, he was again whipped, and then the iron collar that he now wore, with the iron rod extending from one shoulder over his head to the other, with the bells fastened at the top of the arch, were put upon him.
— from Fifty Years in Chains; or, the Life of an American Slave by Charles Ball

Ah, trust me, Marmaduke, the York House is a princely one; and if we must have a king, we barons, by stout Saint George, let no meaner race ever furnish our lieges.
— from The Last of the Barons — Volume 02 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Then the various religious exercises followed one after the other, in a monotonous repetition of the order which had been observed whilst they crossed the same plains on their way to Lourdes.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 5 by Émile Zola

The cigarreras are deeply religious, and at a recent Easter festival one of the pasos of the Virgin was presented with a splendid new mantle at a cost of 9,000 dollars, for the purchase of which the 7,000 workers had each contributed two centimos a week during the preceding year.
— from Things seen in Spain by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

you inform me who are the representatives or descendants of Lieut.-Colonel Robert Edward Fell, of St. Martin's in the Fields, London, where he was living in the year 1770?
— from Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

The mountain made a steep descent to the road except for one shelving bit of level ground upon which rested, as if it had alighted there, a one-room cabin, for which an end of a tree trunk served as a doorstep.
— from Home Missions in Action by Edith H. (Edith Hedden) Allen

At a signal from Romulus, when the games were at the most exciting stage, and the strangers were scattered about among the Romans, each follower of Romulus siezed the maiden that he had selected, and carried her off.
— from The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Arthur Gilman

i hendi sèr; koma i skóginn, ok í rjôðr eitt fagurt; ok er þeir hafa þar eigi leingi verit, þá heyra þeir björn mikinn harðla ok grimligan.
— from The English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham