It is not meant of any private Reason; for then there would be as much contradiction in the Lawes, as there is in the Schooles; nor yet (as Sr. Ed, Coke makes it (Sir Edward Coke, upon Littleton Lib.2.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Bappa’s connexion with the Mori [21] obtained him a good reception; 266 he was enrolled amongst the sawants or leaders, and a suitable estate conferred upon him.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

When Chariclia was enamoured of Theagines, as [5245] Heliodorus sets her out, she was half distracted, and spake she knew not what, sighed to herself, lay much awake, and was lean upon a sudden: and when she was besotted on her son-in-law, [5246] pallor deformis, marcentes oculi , &c., she had ugly paleness, hollow eyes, restless thoughts, short wind, &c. Euryalus, in an epistle sent to Lucretia, his mistress, complains amongst other grievances, tu mihi et somni et cibi usum abstulisti , thou hast taken my stomach and my sleep from me.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

o los padecimientos le habían desmejorado mucho; se expresaba con una corrección alambicada que le sentaba a las mil maravillas, y era cariñoso y amable, a veces con exageración.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

11.—PERSONIFICACIÓN DE LAS AVES (to the vocabulary section) Ciertos animales, y en especial las aves, por su aspecto, por sus instintos o por su manera de vivir, parecen imitar las cualidades de la persona o ejecutar aquellas cosas de que sólo es capaz un ser racional.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

2. An adventure is a stirring experience, come upon , as it were, suddenly and unexpectedly.
— from Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Elmer W. (Elmer Warren) Cavins

The steppe echo caught up his voice, carried it on, and it seemed as though stupidity itself were rolling on heavy wheels over the steppe.
— from The Bishop and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Also, on three consecutive mornings she awakened to find him busily painting at a small easel close under the window, which he would hastily cover on hearing her move.
— from The Nest Builder: A Novel by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

de Abril: para que en los officios del sueldo de Oran, no se emplee mas de un soldado en cada uno.”
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

Sir Ector came up to the jousts, with others, and with him rode Kay and Arthur.
— from How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell by Sara Cone Bryant

"You know, I don't think the subject ever came up.
— from The Alembic Plot: A Terran Empire novel by Ann Wilson

Both of two words, if they be strictly synonymous, eventually call up the same image.
— from The Philosophy of Style by Herbert Spencer

The mantle of shrubs, bushes, and creeping plants which formerly, when the suburbs were undisturbed by axe or spade, had been left free to arrange itself in rich, full, and smooth sheets and masses over the forest borders, had been nearly all cut away, and troops of labourers were still employed cutting ugly muddy roads for carts and cattle, through the once clean and lonely woods.
— from The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates