Adjectives ‘of two endings’ with stems in -i- ( 630 ) often have -e in the ablative when they are used as substantives, and sometimes in verse, when a short vowel is needed: as, 85 adfīnī , -e , connection by marriage ; aedīle , -ī , aedile ; familiārī , -e , friend .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

I, moreover, heard a vague and indefinite murmur, like the ebb and flow of waves upon a strand, and sometimes I verily believed I could hear the sighing of the wind.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

So art succeeds in vindicating the forgotten regions of spirit: a new spontaneous creation shows how little authority or finality the given creation has.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

No year passes without a dog running between the two dense lines of spectators and searching in vain for an outlet, and he is almost as eagerly looked for as are the “preliminary canters.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

A pretty long time thereafter it happened, as you know the affection of stepfathers and stepdams is very rare towards the children of the first fathers and mothers deceased, that this husband, with the help of his son Effege, secretly, wittingly, willingly, and treacherously murdered Abece.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Earlier in the same year the Florentines had encamped before Siena, and sought in vain to bring on a general engagement.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The smiling Antonia strove in vain to shake off the Bird, and at length raised her hands to drive it from its delightful harbour.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

There were very few hearts then beneath that flag that did not begin to think that the struggle was useless; that all the blood and treasure had been spent and shed in vain.
— from The Ghosts, and Other Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll

The hall should be in total darkness except for the light coming from the Jack-o'-lanterns of all shapes and sizes in various places.
— from Games for All Occasions by Mary E. Blain

Headache is one of the most annoying symptoms and sometimes is very persistent.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

Here lifting up their eyes they beheld, on what is at present called the Jersey shore, a small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms, and the natives all collected on the beach, gazing in stupid admiration at the Goede Vrouw.
— from Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Washington Irving