back to a common parent from which three main families are derived (M had a separate descent and is not included in any family):— x1 = E,T x2
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

He stepped confidently out into the road to hail the motor-car, which came along at an easy pace, slowing down as it neared the lane; when suddenly he became very pale, his heart turned to water, his knees shook and yielded under him, and he doubled up and collapsed with a sickening pain in his interior.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

When such duties are imposed, not according to the bulk or weight, but according to the supposed value of the goods, they become properly a sort of inland customs or excise, which obstruct very much the most important of all branches of commerce, the interior commerce of the country.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Sir, I invite your Highness and your train To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest For this one night; which, part of it, I'll waste With such discourse as, I not doubt, shall make it Go quick away-the story of my life, And the particular accidents gone by Since I came to this isle.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

M. Lemoine argues that, if man possessed an innate knowledge of expression, authors and artists would not have found it so difficult, as is notoriously the case, to describe and depict the characteristic signs of each particular state of mind.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Man: Some dismal accident it needs must be; What shall we do, stay here or run and see?
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

But now, when I am able to reason, I am sure that you remain alive: it is impossible that you should die, and I not with you—impossible!
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

Sayun dakpun ang isdang nahunsan, Fish are easy to catch when they are trapped by the low tide.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I have loved you so dearly, and I never loved any woman before, it is very hard you will not like me in return."
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3 by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback

"Before the human form was adopted, her (Athena's) proper symbol was the owl, a bird which seems to surpass all other creatures in acuteness of organic perception, its eye being calculated to observe objects which to all others are enveloped in darkness, its ear to hear sounds distinctly, and its nostrils to discriminate effluvia with such nicety that it has been deemed prophetic, from discovering the putridity of death even in the first stages of disease.
— from The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm by John Ruskin

I would have set out myself, for the pleasure of bearing you company back in the chariot; but am really indisposed; I believe, with vexation that I should part thus with my soul's delight, as I now find you are, and must be, in spite of the pride of my own heart.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

What we shall do, afterwards, is not settled.
— from The Tiger of Mysore: A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

What has been set down above is not quite true, for I remember that Simon Ropes stood by my side, fighting manfully, and doing twice the execution that was within my power, for his weapon was uninjured, and the butt of it fell on more than one man’s head, crushing it to a pulp, or seeming to do so.
— from The Armed Ship America; Or, When We Sailed from Salem by James Otis

Or say that the object is obtained, the lover soon becomes wearied of his so much desired treasure, and opening the eyes of his understanding he finds that what before was so devoutly adored is now become abhorrent to him.
— from The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra