Great plenty is to be found thereof in Carpasia, as likewise in the climate Dia Sienes, at very easy rates.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The modern town of Spello occupies its site, and very extensive remains of antiquity are still to be seen.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

So he said: and vast Earth rejoiced greatly in spirit, and set and hid him in an ambush, and put in his hands a jagged sickle, and revealed to him the whole plot.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Cut your stripes diagonally, across the web of the stuff, and very even; run them together, lay the cord or bobbin along the stripe, on the wrong side, 5 m/m. from the edge, fold the edge over, and tack the cord lightly in.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

First five position test showed a very erratic rate as per second column Fig.
— from Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. (Walter John) Kleinlein

Thus, two Knights met at the Adais, supped and visited, each recognized the abilities of the other, each having received the highest honor which could be bestowed by their respective King.
— from No Man's Land: A History of El Camino Real by Louis Raphael Nardini

Attorneys—Boyd & Smith, J. J. Child, Craft & Sosel, A. V. Eastman, R. H. Gilmore, H. H. Gray, Hubbard & Belt, J. W. Leslie, M. P. Mills, A. St. C. Smith, O. O. Stanchfield, I. N. Whittam. Baker—P. Seitz.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer

Next moment he sank limply back in his chair, as if the strain and vindictive emotion, reacting on his physical weakness, had overcome him, and there was silence until he recovered.
— from Carmen's Messenger by Harold Bindloss

—The migrations of this species are very extensive, reaching over practically the whole of the Old World.
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent

The interview between the captains was short and very emphatic, resulting in G securing the timber.
— from Company G A Record of the Services of One Company of the 157th N. Y. Vols. in the War of the Rebellion from Sept. 19, 1862, to July 10, 1865 by A. R. (Albert Rowe) Barlow

Nisi tamen intellego [153] illum supra quam ego sum petere, neque simul amicitiam vestram et regnum meum sperare.
— from C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino by Sallust

Diagrams taken from engines worked in this manner show a very excellent result, and most of the modern engines trust for their expansive working to the link motion and the throttle valve.
— from A Catechism of the Steam Engine by Bourne, John, C.E.