The present or perfect with postquam or ut is sometimes used in expressions equivalent to an emphasized accusative or ablative of time, the main verb being est or sunt : as, septingentī sunt annī postquam inclita condita Rōma est , E. in Varro, RR.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Mrs. Shelby smiled as she saw a prostrate lot of chickens and ducks, over which Chloe stood, with a very grave face of consideration.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Learned military authorities quite seriously tell us that Kutúzov should have moved his army to the Kalúga road long before reaching Filí, and that somebody actually submitted such a proposal to him.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And behold, one night the ikon had been robbed, the glass of the case was broken, the grating was smashed and several stones and pearls (I don’t know whether they were very precious ones) had been removed from the crown and the setting.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For an omelette, our modern sardines, including kippered smelts, sprotten, and similar smoked and processed fish, contain sufficient salt and fat to season the eggs of an omelette.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

They interposed between me and my management of the property in a hundred different ways; making an outcry if I cut a stick, sunk a shaft, sold a picture, or sent a few ounces of plate to be remodelled.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

30 Sed ea non pariter omnes egemus; nam ad cuiusque vitam institutam accommodandum est, a multisne opus sit an satis sit a paucis diligi.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

A rare and old pronoun equivalent to is is sum , sam , accusative singular, sōs , accusative plural, and sīs , dative plural.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Abbé de l'Epée, the Agassiz's Natural History Akin by Marriage American Antiquity Aquarium, my Architecture, Domestic Art Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, the Battle of Lepanto, the Beecher, Henry Ward Beethoven Béranger Birds and their Ways Books British Gallery in New York, the British India Buchanan's Administration Burr, Aaron Button-Rose, the Carlyle, Thomas Catacombs of Rome, the Child-Life by the Ganges Cretins and Idiots Diamond Lens, the Eben Jackson Financial Flurry, the Florentine Mosaics Ghost Redivivus, the Great Failure, the Grindwell Governing Machine, the Hundred Days, the Illusions India, British Indian Revolt, the Intellectual Character Jerrold, Douglas Journal to my Cousin Mary Kansas Usurpation, Review of the Lepanto, the Battle of L'Epée, the Abbé de Librarian's Story, the Loo Loo Mamoul Manchester Exhibition, the Maya, the Princess Mourning Veil, the Music My Aquarium My Journal to my Cousin Mary New England Ministers Notes on Domestic Architecture Our Birds and their Ways Pendlam, a Modern Reformer Persian Poetry Pictures, Something about President's Message, the Prima Donna, Who paid for the Pure Pearl of Diver's Bay, the Queen of the Red Chessmen, the Robin Hood Roger Pierce Round Table, the Saints, and their Bodies Sally Parsons's Duty Solitude and Society Something about Pictures Spartacus Tea Tiflin of Paragraphs
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Lianhan Shee an Sogarth signifies a priest's paramour, or, as the country people say, “Miss.”
— from Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

I never saw anything so still and peaceful as it lies all the morning.
— from The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by David Livingstone

And no matter how the storm upsets some of our plans we ought to be thankful we’ve got such a snug shelter, and plenty of good things to eat—thanks to Mr. Garrity.”
— from The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound; or, A Tour on Skates and Iceboats by George A. Warren

They not only brought all the twenty horses Leather said he had scattered about to Laverick Wells, but made him out to have a house in Eaton Square, a yacht at Cowes, and a first-rate moor in Scotland, and some said a peerage in expectancy.
— from Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees

They were, in case of need, prepared to serve as sailors, soldiers, artillerymen, pontooners, &c.
— from Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. IV) by Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de