Most substantives in -u- are masculines in -tu- or -su- , often defective in case ( 235 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

People with a lot of ability, who know a great deal, often appear like a set of dummies in company, while some superficial, shallow-brained person holds the attention of those present simply because he can tell what he knows in an interesting way.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

I met them one day in a back street: you know Ladislaw's look—a sort of Daphnis in coat and waistcoat; and this little old maid reaching up to his arm—they looked like a couple dropped out of a romantic comedy.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The model for this sort of description is contained in the tale of Théramène, which is not useful to tragedy, but which every day renders great services to judicial eloquence.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Whereas any constant periodical appearance, or alteration of ideas, in seemingly equidistant spaces of duration, if constant and universally observable, would have as well distinguished the intervals of time, as those that have been made use of.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Whatever stood against them was cut off by the sword, or dragged into captivity: the military orders were almost exterminated in a single battle; and in the pillage of the city, in the profanation of the holy sepulchre, the Latins confess and regret the modesty and discipline of the Turks and Saracens.
— 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

The works of man were everywhere destroyed, and the population slaughtered, or dragged into captivity.
— from The Sieges of Vienna by the Turks by Karl August Schimmer

I immediately perceived that life was ebbing fast; and being convinced that nothing short of divine interposition could retard his fate, I endeavoured to console him by drawing his attention to the mercies of God, and the saving mediation of a gracious Redeemer: to which he replied, with asperity and violence, “If you have any friendship left for a degraded, self-polluted wretch, torture not his last moments.
— from Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land by Thomas Reid

73.—Absorption spectrum (Lecoq de Boisbaudran) of salts of didymium in concentrated and dilute solutions.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

To do away with any state of distress whatsoever was counter to its profoundest expediency, it lived by states of distress, it created states of distress in order to perpetuate itself eternally....
— from Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Various

I cannot ride with them, much as I should have liked it; for the scenes of devastation indoors claim my attention, and with my dark-skinned hand-maiden and another Kaffir woman, wife of one of the herds, whom I have pressed into the service, I go to work; boldly attacking first the most herculean task of all, i.e. , the cleaning of the bedroom out of which we were washed last night.
— from Home Life on an Ostrich Farm by Martin, Annie, Mrs.

VI Rummaging through a second-hand book shop in Oxford Street one day, I came upon an old volume of sporting anecdotes published far back in 1867, and long since out of print and forgotten.
— from The Spirit of the Links by Henry Leach

“To-day we spent in visiting the great monuments south of Delhi, in company with the Loharos and Prince Suliman Jah, who organized the expedition.
— from India under Ripon: A Private Diary by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

32 MY SHIP One day I cast my lot upon the troublous tides of life, And ventured all my hoarded love upon its fitful strife.
— from Contrasted Songs by Marian Longfellow