In iron walls they deem'd me not secure; So great fear of my name 'mongst them was spread That they suppos'd I could rend bars of steel And spurn in pieces posts of adamant; Wherefore a guard of chosen shot I had That walk'd about me every minute-while; And if I did but stir out of my bed, Ready they were to shoot me to the heart.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

If Governments make philosophy a means of furthering political ends, learned men see in philosophical professorships a trade that nourishes the outer man just like any other; therefore they crowd after them in the assurance of their good intentions, that is, the purpose of subserving
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Dawn was shedding its pallid, placid glimmer on the purple ocean, when at the distance of a musket shot from them was seen a dark gray mass, above which gleamed a triangular sail; then masters and servants joined in a fervent cry to the crew of that vessel to hear them and to save.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

When the action of the protasis was forestalled, or when action conceivable or purpose is expressed, antequam and priusquam regularly introduce the imperfect subjunctive in particular past statements: as, plērīque interfectī sunt, priusquam occultum hostem vidērent , L. 35, 29, 3, most of them were slain before they could see the hidden enemy .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

H2 anchor CHAPTER VI During the first weeks of his stay in Petersburg Prince Andrew felt the whole trend of thought he had formed during his life of seclusion quite overshadowed by the trifling cares that engrossed him in that city.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

For the worlds subtilst immateriall parts [page 239] Feele this consuming wound, and ages darts.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Babbitt and Littlefield still spoke in pontifical periods about motors and the senate, but they kept bleakly away from mention of their families.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

If the student is proceeding properly, he is encouraged; if not, he is given the necessary guidance and assistance.
— from An American at Oxford by John Corbin

Hugh McCulloch , Secretary of the Treasury ,— My Dear Sir :—It has been stated in public prints and otherwise, in a form designed to injure me, that since leaving the Treasury Department I have taken employment against the government as agent or attorney for cotton claims.
— from Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men by Various

More than once, plowing through profound and interminable treatises of grammar and syntax in [Pg178] preparation for the present work, I have encountered the cheering spectacle of one grammarian exposing, with contagious joy, the grammatical lapses of some other grammarian.
— from The American Language A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

Until she is caught, and the truth of the statement is proved, Purse may have us watched, but he certainly will not arrest us."
— from The Red Bicycle by Fergus Hume

But, as the whole of this book has tried to establish, the contemplation of beautiful shapes involves perceptive processes in themselves mentally invigorating and refining, and a play of empathic feelings which realise the greatest desiderata of spiritual life, viz.
— from The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics by Vernon Lee

I practice medicine, and so much so that sometimes in the summer I perform post-mortems, though I have not done so for two or three years.
— from Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Sylvester II, Pope, proposed to construct a globe, I, 39 Syracuse, Meteorological Observatory, II, 171 (Ferguson) Syrians, belief in a circular earth and opposed to the spherical doctrine, I, 36 T aisnero , referred to by Roscelli as a globe maker, I, 154 Tassarolo, Spinola Palace, II, 178 (Vaugondy)
— from Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy by Edward Luther Stevenson

The present system is purely political.
— from Uncle Sam Abroad by Jacob Elon Conner