Explanatory cum is sometimes introduced by quippe , rarely by ut pote , naturally : as, tum vērō gravior cūra patribus incessit, quippe cum prōdī causam ab suīs cernerent , L. 4, 57, 10, then the senators were still more seriously concerned, and naturally enough, since they beheld their cause betrayed by their own people .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane
In a moment Maggie and Philip leaned forward, and the hands were clasped again, with a look of sad contentment, like that of friends who meet in the memory of recent sorrow.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
In this region also and the eleventh there are some celebrated lakes 1928 , and several rivers that either take their rise in them or else are fed by their waters, in those cases in which they again emerge from them.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny
Then straightway Little John and Will Stutely came leaping and stood upon either side of Robin Hood, and quickly drew their broadswords, the while a mighty voice rolled over the heads of all, "Here be I, good master, when thou wantest me"; for it was Friar Tuck that so called from the organ loft.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
And true to his word, to the wonder of all, he made himself into a small creature like an insect, and entered into the phial.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day
Know now the treachery of the Grecians, and from a single crime learn all. . . .
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
Their suffrage is claimed, with equal confidence, by the orthodox and by the heretical parties; and the most inquisitive critics have fairly allowed, that if they had the good fortune of possessing the Catholic verity, they have delivered their conceptions in loose, inaccurate, and sometimes contradictory language.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon
Lift available for fuel and freight = 42 " Fuel carried = 21 " ------------ Balance for freight = 21 " ------------ It will thus be seen that at the faster speed small commercial loads can be carried by L 70 and R 38 and not at all in the case of R 33, that is assuming, of course, that the extra fuel is carried, of which 75 per cent of the total does not appear at all excessive in view of the weather continually experienced over the Atlantic.
— from British Airships, Past, Present, and Future by George Whale
It's impossible to love strange children like your own."
— from Mimi's Marriage by Lidiia Ivanovna Veselitskaia
“Do try,” she cried, laying her hand impulsively on his arm once more.
— from Linnet: A Romance by Grant Allen
Following this agnostic scheme of thought, came, several centuries later, the dualistic Yoga 5 system in which the chief feature is the conception of Deity as a means of final emancipation of the human soul from further transmigration, and of union with the Universal Spirit or World Soul.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis
A new butterfly, an uncommon insect, would be irresistible to him; and not unfrequently, when he went out with his gun to procure some game which Mr. Hardy had wanted upon the arrival of some unexpected visitor, he would come back in a high state of triumph with some curious little bird, which he had shot after a long chase, the requirements of the household being altogether forgotten.
— from On the Pampas; Or, The Young Settlers by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Sunday services, classes, lectures before clubs and colleges, interviews with students, ceaseless streams of correspondence, articles for East-West , direction of activities in India and numerous small centers in American cities.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
But all that night he wandered about the old homestead—now lost beneath its pear trees—now casting his uncouth shadow across the barn-yard, where half a dozen slumbering cows lifted their heads and gazed earnestly after him, as if waiting for the intruder to be gone.
— from Fashion and Famine by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
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