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Similarly in Latin verbs
Similarly in Latin, verbs of incomplete predication are completed by the infinitive.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

saw in Lecture VIII
As we saw in Lecture VIII, the images associated with a sensation often come with such spontaneity and force that the unsophisticated do not distinguish them from the sensation; it is only the psychologist or the skilled observer who is aware of the large mnemic element that is added to sensation to make perception.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

saw in Lecture VII
We saw in Lecture VII that this characteristic involves none of the other characteristics that are commonly associated with mental phenomena, such as consciousness, experience and memory.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

sit ita loquuntur vulgo
Note 81 ( return ) [ Græci quibus lingua depravata non sit.... ita loquuntur vulgo hâc etiam tempestate ut Aristophanes comicus, aut Euripides tragicus, ut oratores omnes, ut historiographi, ut philosophi....
— 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

subjunctive in Livy Valerius
It may be mentioned here that postrīdiē quam and prīdiē quam occur a few times in Plautus and Cicero with the indicative; postrīdiē quam with the indicative in Suetonius; and prīdiē quam with the subjunctive in Livy, Valerius Maximus, and Suetonius.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

said in language very
The lord could require the services, /1/ or collect the rent /2/ of any one who had the land, because, as was said in language very like Bracton's, "the charge of the rent goes with the land."
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

snouts in lateral view
Specimens from the Caribbean lowlands have blunt snouts in lateral view; those from the Pacific lowlands have longer, more slender snouts that are pointed in lateral view, and those from the Meseta Central are intermediate in snout shape between the two lowland populations (Fig. 4).
— from Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William Edward Duellman

swelled into larger volumes
Almost every controversy, therefore, has been, for a time, carried on in pamphlets, nor has swelled into larger volumes, till the first ardour of the disputants has subsided, and they have recollected their notions with coolness enough to digest them into order, consolidate them into systems, and fortify them with authorities.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson

speaking in low voices
( They go on speaking in low voices. )
— from Nursery Comedies: Twelve Tiny Plays for Children by Bell, Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe, Lady

stone into little valleys
The broad, plain flagstones of the floor spread round him in cool, white spaces, in loved unevenness, honoured by the foot-tracks which had worn the stone into little valleys from the door and through the narrow, Norman chancel-arch up towards the altar rails, telling of generations of feet, long since at rest, that had carried simple lives to seek the place as the place of their help or peace.
— from Stained Glass Work: A text-book for students and workers in glass by Christopher Whall

She is looking very
She is looking very well, and is very sweet and gentle, but I fear her people will be somewhat of a trial.
— from A Country Sweetheart by Dora Russell

Silius Italicus Livy Velleius
During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon's works; almost all Plato; Aristotle's Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch's Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero.
— from Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1 by George Otto Trevelyan

said it looked very
Just as Buster had said, it looked very much in the distance like a fat cigar, and was of a neutral tint, not very easily distinguished against the heavens.
— from Motor Boat Boys Down the Danube; or, Four Chums Abroad by Louis Arundel

Secrecy in Lost Valley
Secrecy in Lost Valley had been brought to a work of art.
— from Tharon of Lost Valley by Vingie E. (Vingie Eve) Roe


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