Conjugation Singular Plural I. amā , love thou amā´te , love ye II.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Conjugation Singular Plural I. amâ , love thou amâ´te , love ye II.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

This afternoon Secretary Bennet read to the Duke of Yorke his letters, which say that Allen [Among the State Papers is a letter from Captain Thomas Allin to Sir Richard Fanshaw, dated from “The Plymouth, Cadiz Bay,” December 25th, 1664, in which he writes: “On the 19th attacked with his seven ships left, a Dutch fleet of fourteen, three of which were men-of- war; sunk two vessels and took two others, one a rich prize from Smyrna; the others retired much battered.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

That he has actually realized, in spirit and in effect, if not to the letter, the old chimaera of the philosopher’s stone, no sane person is at liberty to doubt.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

To oblige the great body of the yeomanry, and of the other classes of the citizens, to be under arms for the purpose of going through military exercises and evolutions, as often as might be necessary to acquire the degree of perfection which would entitle them to the character of a well-regulated militia, would be a real grievance to the people, and a serious public inconvenience and loss.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

There is a curious point for you to settle, my friend, who study psychology in a lazy, dilettante way.
— from Life in the Iron-Mills; Or, The Korl Woman by Rebecca Harding Davis

75 C H A P. XXVIII “ I T is with Love as with Cuckoldom”——the suffering party is at least the third, but generally the last in the house who knows any thing about the matter: this comes, as all the world knows, from having half a dozen words for one thing; and so long, as what in this vessel of the human frame, is Love —may be Hatred, in that—— Sentiment half a yard higher——and Nonsense ———no, Madam,—not there——I mean at the part I am now pointing to with my forefinger——how can we help ourselves?
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

No, Sir, Prior is a lady's book.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

She shut the door, and went half-way into the study; then turned back, as if moved by some passionate impulse, and locked the door inside.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Let us follow one to his home and see how Sunday passes in a Ludlow Street tenement.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

(Except when it was afternoon, And then a sickly sun peered in A little while; it vanished soon
— from Matins by Francis Sherman

This contention of the inferior with a might capable of crushing it in an instant may seem to argue no small share of folly or madness, as well as of impudence; but I am convinced there is very little danger in it: contempt is a port to which the pride of man submits to fly with reluctance, but those who are within it are always in a place of the most assured security; for whosoever throws away his sword prefers, indeed, a less honorable but much safer means of avoiding danger than he who defends himself with it.
— from The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding

And Dupont, after walking about the hall for some time in search of a particularly shapely partner, invited at last a rather attractive person whose languorous eyes gazed into his with infinite good humor.
— from Frédérique, vol. 2 by Paul de Kock

They said "that if the amendment should pass into a law as it is now drawn, it would not only tend to the great damage and loss of the petitioners, but also the prejudice of His Majesty's revenue."
— from The History of the British Post Office by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon

"We heard of him down at the foot of the mountain," they said presently, in a louder tone, as if to end an argument; "Well, tell him to come out here, we want to see him."
— from The Scout and Ranger Being the Personal Adventures of Corporal Pike of the Fourth Ohio cavalry by James Pike

He went home, but returned to Paris, drew a small prize in a lottery, and sat next a gentleman at the play, a gentleman who read the rarest of Elzevirs, “Le Pastissier Français,” and gave him a little lecture on Elzevirs in general.
— from Essays in Little by Andrew Lang

"Holy Moses!" said Pat in a loud aside.
— from Nuggets in the Devil's Punch Bowl, and Other Australian Tales by Andrew Robertson

solution of citric acid, which was a very moderate test, and gave it as his opinion that either the use of such poisonous ingredients as lead and arsenic in large quantity should be entirely abandoned, or that the composition otherwise of the enamel should 647.png 634 be of such a character as to ensure that none of the poisonous substances could be dissolved out, in the circumstances under which the enamelled vessels are used.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

But you know as well as I do, that stopping at such places is a lot more expensive than swaggering about at the most expensive hotels in Europe."
— from Lord Loveland Discovers America by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Severe flooding in the summer of 2007 aggravated chronic food shortages caused by on-going systemic problems including a lack of arable land, collective farming practices, and persistent shortages of tractors and fuel.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency