passed three large rocks in The river the middle rock is large long and has Several Squar vaults on it.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

With dōnec the present subjunctive is found once in Plautus, rarely in late Latin and in poetry; the perfect indicative is found at all periods; the present indicative ( 1590 ), found once in Plautus, is poetic and late.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

[443] Chrysostom pleads farther yet, that they are more than mad, very beasts, stupefied and void of common sense: For how (saith he) shall I know thee to be a man, when thou kickest like an ass, neighest like a horse after women, ravest in lust like a bull, ravenest like a bear, stingest like a scorpion, rakest like a wolf, as subtle as a fox, as impudent as a dog?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The extremely slight licence which this rearrangement into longer lines affords was sufficient to disturb the balance of his cadences, and nowhere else was he capable of writing quite such lines as: One friend was left, a falcon, famed for beauty, skill and size, Kept from his fortune's ruin, for the sake of its great eyes.
— from Figures of Several Centuries by Arthur Symons

But we are more interested in social reform, in labour legislation, and in constitutional reform than in foreign politics; and so it is on questions of home policy that we make and unmake Governments, and when we discuss whether a Conservative or a Liberal Government ought to be in power, we never think what effect the change would have on foreign policy.
— from The War and Democracy by John Dover Wilson

But to resume—this room is large, lofty, and perfectly empty."
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

Up to this time I had no thought of danger, but just as the baby whale halted I looked round, and saw to my horror that its colossal mother had joined her offspring, and was swimming round and round it like lightning, apparently greatly disturbed by its sufferings.
— from The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont by Louis de Rougemont

was that a rose-leaf fell? See, the rose is listening, Lily, And the rose may tell.
— from Poems of Henry Timrod; with Memoir by Henry Timrod

See, he is sleeping soundly; the respiration is less labored, and his pulse much better.
— from The White Rose of Memphis by William C. (Clark) Falkner

Though even the Gauchos give their horses some preliminary training, the Pampas Indian catches the animal with the lasso, throws it down, forces a wooden bit, covered with a piece of hide, into its mouth, from which bit there is a leathern cord to bind round its lower lip, and gallops off.
— from The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston

After dressing rapidly, we soon found ourselves seated upon the deck: the air was calm—not a breeze ruffled the broad surface of the Rhine: it lay like a mirror before us, reflecting the tapered minarets and richly ornamented dome of the Cathedral, which glistened under the morning dew, like a vast globe of gold.
— from Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Charles James Lever

W. R. Inge: Life, Light and Love .
— from The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith