The peaceful sway of Varuṇa is explained by his connection with the regularly recurring celestial phenomena, the course of the heavenly bodies seen in the sky; Indra’s warlike and occasionally capricious nature is accounted for by the variable and uncertain strife of the elements in the thunderstorm.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Clearly we have stopped another of the springs of vice in Emile’s heart.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I would fain ask any reasonable Man whether this Lad, in the Simplicity of his native Innocence, full of Shame, and capable of any Impression from that Grace of Soul, was not fitter for any Purpose in this Life, than after that Spark of Virtue is extinguished in him, tho' he is able to write twenty Verses in an Evening?
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The present subjunctive stem of verbs in -ere , -ēre , and -īre , ends in -ā- , which becomes -a- in some of the persons; this suffix replaces the variable vowel of the indicative: as, rega-m , regā-s , rega-t , regā-mus , regā-tis , rega-nt ; capia-m , capiā-s , &c.; monea-m , moneā-s , &c. ; audia-m , audiā-s , &c. ea-m , quea-m , fera-m , and the old fua-m ( 750 ), also have the formative subjunctive vowel.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The imperative stem of verbs in -ere , and of verbs in -āre , -ēre , and -īre , is the same as that of the indicative: as, rege , regi-tō , regu-ntō , rege-re ; cape , capi-tō , capiu-ntō ; fī ; laudā , &c.; monē , &c.; audī , &c. 846.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The future stem of verbs in -ere and -īre ends in -a- in the first person singular, otherwise in -ē- , which becomes -e- in some of the persons: as, rega-m , regē-s , rege-t , regē-mus , regē-tis , rege-nt ; capia-m , capiē-s , &c.; audia-m , audiē-s , &c.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The anti-sacerdotal spirit of Vasishtha is especially revealed in a strange satirical hymn in which he ridicules the ceremonial Bráhmans under the guise of a panegyric on frogs.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

In this work, the syntax of Verbs is embraced in six consecutive rules, with the necessary exceptions, notes, and observations, under them; hence this chapter extends from the fourteenth to the twentieth rule in the series.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

The immediate and natural result of his faith is, that he asks for the remedy which is offered;—and this result is inseparable from such belief, according to the uniform sequence of volitions in every sound mind.
— from The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings by John Abercrombie

Was it a presentiment of the brief space of time that I was still to cherish the simple faith that there is a spark of virtue in every human breast that nothing can entirely extinguish, that made me now bow my head upon my hands and shed hot tears?
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

It was the latter, with the great Haller, who, by a series of very ingenious experiments, elevated the suppositions of Glisson to the dignity of demonstrated facts.
— from An Epitome of the History of Medicine by Roswell Park

The great success of Voltaire in England did not, in fact, produce any very marked change in the course of tragedy.
— from Tragedy by Ashley Horace Thorndike

Among its clauses was one providing that no one should, after the 1st of March then next ensuing, sit or vote in either House of Parliament without taking the oaths of allegiance to the new King and Queen, and the Jacobites and ultra-Tories conceived the hope that many peers, bishops, and commoners would find it impossible to reconcile their consciences to this test.
— from William the Third by H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill

Anne stayed with her, she doesn't like donkey riding under any circumstances, and a donkey at night on the slopes of Vesuvius in eruption, with a stream of red-hot lava running
— from Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife: January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary King Waddington

"The most precious fragment of the past," is the unstinted eulogium which a thoughtful man has passed on this transcendent prayer; transcending in its scope of view, its expressions, its tender pathos, all other prayers of which we have record.
— from Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer