So I continued praying until the Father showed me his Son. {350} CHR.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

V. enter into, enter into the composition of; be a component &c. n; be part of, form part of &c. 51; merge in, be merged in; be implicated in; share in &c. (participate) 778; belong to, appertain to; combine, inhere in, unite. form, make, constitute, compose.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The king had not perceived this thing and recked not of her, wherefor she suffered intolerable chagrin, past all that can be imagined.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

As we were told that the man "succeeded" in carrying put his plan, we must try to find some loophole in the conditions.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Who should come to my lodge this morning but a true Homeric or Paphlagonian man—he had so suitable and poetic a name that I am sorry I cannot print it here—a Canadian, a woodchopper and post-maker, who can hole fifty posts in a day, who made his last supper on a woodchuck which his dog caught.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

He wondered to see the lance leaning against the tree, the shield on the ground, and Don Quixote in armour and dejected, with the saddest and most melancholy face that sadness itself could produce; and going up to him he said, "Be not so cast down, good man, for you have not fallen into the hands of any inhuman Busiris, but into Roque Guinart's, which are more merciful than cruel."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

But the plural is sometimes used, especially when the subject is separated from its verb, or is to be supplied from a preceding clause: as, cum tanta multitūdō lapidēs conicerent , 2, 6, 3, when such a throng were throwing stones . is cīvitātī persuāsit, ut dē fīnibus suīs exīrent , 1, 2, 1, this person succeeded in inducing the community to leave their territory .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

There is hardly a person in this room, white or black, whose natal signature I cannot produce, and not one of them can so disguise himself that I cannot pick him out from a multitude of his fellow-creatures and unerringly identify him by his hands.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

Thou shalt see its conquering power, its manifest dominion, its eternal might and its everlasting glory.
— from Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also [Pg 103] sincerity.
— from Notes on My Books by Joseph Conrad

His sister-in-law was employed as housekeeper at some bungalow or other situated in close proximity to the Twin-Lights; that he had discovered since his arrival on the morning train.
— from The Woman-Haters by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

[Pg 215] the matter must have been to travellers and traders in localities where those feudal governments stood in close proximity to each other.
— from A Fantasy of Far Japan; Or, Summer Dream Dialogues by Kencho Suematsu

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— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The red glazed pottery, of which such quantity is found wherever there has been a Roman settlement, is clearly proved to have been made in Gaul and Germany and to have been imported.
— from Early London: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman by Walter Besant

Of seven children whom he had by his marriage, there remained to him only the son, afterwards so famous, and a daughter, whose success in childhood promised a talent which was never realized.
— from The Violin Some Account of That Leading Instrument and Its Most Eminent Professors, from Its Earliest Date to the Present Time; with Hints to Amateurs, Anecdotes, etc. by George Dubourg

It is thus not only the integrating body for professional investigators, but the bond of union between these and the great group of cultured men and women—the group from whose ranks the professional guild is recruited, through whom the scientific spirit is chiefly propagated, and through whose interest scientific research receives its financial support.
— from The Popular Science Monthly, August, 1900 Vol. 57, May, 1900 to October, 1900 by Various

When the ancient Greeks would accuse any one of extreme insufficiency, they would say, in common proverb, that he could neither read nor swim; he was of the same opinion, that swimming was of great use in war, and himself found it so; for when he had to use diligence, he commonly swam over the rivers in his way; for he loved to march on foot, as also did Alexander the Great.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But a few miles from the shore the nature of the ground gradually changed, and the country showed itself worthy of its name; the soil was cut up by a network of creeks, rivers, watercourses, ponds, and small lakes; it might have been mistaken for Holland or Guiana; but the ground gradually rose and soon showed its cultivated plains, where all the vegetables of the North and South grow in perfection, its immense fields, where a tropical sun and the water conserved in its clayey texture do all the work of cultivating, and lastly its prairies of pineapples, yams, tobacco, rice, cotton, and sugarcanes, which extended as far as the eye could reach, spreading out their riches with careless prodigality.
— from The Moon-Voyage by Jules Verne