At any rate, she never interfered to save them.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
But I carry this farther, and observe, not only that we respect the rich and powerful, where they shew no inclination to serve us, but also when we lie so much out of the sphere of their activity, that they cannot even be supposed to be endowed with that power.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
The cables crack; the sailors’ fearful cries Ascend; and sable night involves the skies; And heav’n itself is ravish’d from their eyes.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil
A compound subject with or or nor takes a verb in the singular number if the substantives are singular ( p. 100 ).
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge
So when he was gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him.
— from Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, John by Richard Francis Weymouth
Isomerous , the same number in the successive circles or sets.
— from The Elements of Botany, For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
At these words he hung down his head, and remained for a time as if absorbed by some new imagination; then, sighing deeply, he raised it again, and looked up with such a mournful and silly expression, as excited the amusement of all around.
— from The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
'What, here in the sand!' 'No, in the Salon….
— from Celibates by George Moore
But Pallas, who was the son of the King, commanded that they should not interrupt the sacrifice, and snatching a spear, he cried from the mound whereon the altar stood: “Strangers, why come ye? what seek ye?
— from Stories of the Old World by Alfred John Church
Venturella was fond of leaning over the low parapet which divided her father's vineyard from the highroad; and when the brief Italian twilight had sunk in the shades of night, and the brilliant stars, that seem so near in those southern lands, had spangled
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various
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