The print of a foot in the sand can only prove, when considered alone, that there was some figure adapted to it, by which it was produced: but the print of a human foot proves likewise, from our other experience, that there was probably another foot, which also left its impression, though effaced by time or other accidents.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Successive crowds of pilgrims from Gaul and India saluted the divine pillar of Simeon: the tribes of Saracens disputed in arms the honor of his benediction; the queens of Arabia and Persia gratefully confessed his supernatural virtue; and the angelic Hermit was consulted by the younger Theodosius, in the most important concerns of the church and state.
— 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

Verbs of fearing are followed by a substantive clause of purpose introduced by ut ( that not ) or nê ( that or lest ).
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

“Upon hearing the frantic project of their leader, each in his own separate soul had suddenly lighted, it would seem, upon the same piece of treachery, namely: to be foremost in breaking out, in order to be the first of the three, though the last of the ten, to surrender; and thereby secure whatever small chance of pardon such conduct might merit.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

One, of a labourer discovered to convey away the bits of silver cut out pence by swallowing them down into his belly, and so they could not find him out, though, of course, they searched all the labourers; but, having reason to doubt him, they did, by threats and promises, get him to confess, and did find L7 of it in his house at one time.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

This reminds us of the couplet by the author of the "Street Cries of Paris," thirteenth century:--
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

For he seems chary of putting his visitor to the trouble of repeating his late attentions.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

They were sprawled out all over the shuddering bridge, some crawling, others perfectly still.
— from Motor Boat Boys Down the Danube; or, Four Chums Abroad by Louis Arundel

A small convoy of provisions advanced to meet the army as far as the castle of Ur; and the supply was the more grateful, since it declared the fidelity of Sebastian and Procopius.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Edward Gibbon

Robert Simpson, author of the old tune, * was a Scottish composer of psalmody; born, about 1722, in Glasgow; and died, in Greenock, June, 1838.
— from The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Hezekiah Butterworth

And then, to the speaker's extreme surprise, there came a sudden change over Pegler's face.
— from From out the Vasty Deep by Marie Belloc Lowndes

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, of which at this time Hon.
— from Homestead A Complete History of the Struggle of July, 1892, between the Carnegie-Steel Company, Limited, and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers by Arthur Gordon Burgoyne

He had read of several cases of people, lost in marshy country, who had been dangerously bitten and infected by the swarms of nocturnal pests, swamp mosquitos.
— from The Ghost of Mystery Airport by Van Powell

It is the light given by one square centimeter of platinum, melted, but just at the point of solidification.
— from The Standard Electrical Dictionary A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice of Electrical Engineering by T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor) Sloane

‘Advancing to the edge of the rock, I saw crowds of people and carriages, diminished by distance, issuing from the bosom of the mountain, and disappearing almost as soon as discovered in the windings of the road.
— from The Subterranean World by G. (Georg) Hartwig