The ablative of a substantive, with a predicate participle in agreement, is used to denote an attendant circumstance of an action.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Mrs. Moss did not take her stand on the equality of the human race; she was a patient, prolific, loving-hearted woman.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The scene was a public path, bordered on the left hand by a river, behind which rose a high wall.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

As to the straw hat and blue ribbons which was on the top of the curls, if I could only have hung it up in my room in Buckingham Street, what a priceless possession it would have been! ‘You have just come home from Paris,’ said I. ‘Yes,’ said she.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

“Don't you see,” she whispered as Peter picked up the basket and stalked out with it, “he's sorry, really, only he won't say so?
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

" "Gilbert's brother, Charles the Stammerer, was a pious prince, but, having early in life lost his father, Pepin the Mad, who died as a result of his mental infirmity, he wielded the supreme power with all the arrogance of a man who has not been subjected to discipline in his youth, so much so that, whenever he saw a man in a town whose face he did not remember, he would massacre the whole place, to the last inhabitant.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

His reputation—so he said with a peculiarly Parisian air—was at stake.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

But you see what a perfect piece of æsthetic criticism it is.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

See what a pleasant path; and there’s the bird—the same bird—now he flies to another tree, and stays to sing.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

But if we treat all this abstraction literally and oppose it to its mother soil in experience, see what a preposterous position we work ourselves into.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

Of the finer kinds of romance, as distinguished from the novel, I would even encourage the writing, though it is one of the hard conditions of romance that its personages starting with a 'parti pris' can rarely be characters with a living growth, but are apt to be types, limited to the expression of one principle, simple, elemental, lacking the God-given complexity of motive which we find in all the human beings we know.
— from Criticism and Fiction by William Dean Howells

I have thought it better to trust to the justice of my countrymen, that they would judge me by what they see of my conduct on the stage where they have placed me, and what they knew of me before the epoch since which a particular party has supposed [256] it might answer some view of theirs to vilify me in the public eye.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 4 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

"With some woman?" "All perfectly proper," said Lady Dashwood, "but—oh, May—it's so unspeakably dreary and desolating."
— from The New Warden by Ritchie, David G. (David George), Mrs.

We may smile at Chatham, scrupulously crowned in his best wig, if intending to speak; at Erskine, drawing on his bright yellow gloves before he rose to plead; at Horace Walpole, in a cravat of Gibbon's carvings; at Raleigh, loading his shoes with jewels so heavy that he could scarcely walk; at Petrarch, pinching his feet till he crippled them; at the rings which covered the philosophical fingers of Aristotle; at the bare throat of Byron; the American dress of Rousseau; the scarlet and gold coat of Voltaire; or the prudent carefulness with which Cæsar scratched his head so as not to disturb the locks arranged over the bald place.
— from The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical: A Cabinet for the Curious by Frank H. Stauffer

To tell the truth, the pupils who were refractory to my system were few in proportion, and the school was a pleasanter place than if the rod had been always in hand, as in the days of my boyhood.
— from The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by William James Stillman

But her own work, save in some of her short stories, which are pretty perfect, represents the imperfect stage of the development—the stage when the novel is trying for the right methods and struggling to get into the right ways, but has not wholly mastered the one or reached the others.
— from The English Novel by George Saintsbury

It was sowed with all possible precautions.
— from The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various

Does he understand what is meant by "taking sides" with a public party? Would he be faithful to the special ideas of Secularism so long as he felt them to be true?
— from The Principles Of Secularism by George Jacob Holyoake

Then John Chester stopped laughing and, laying his hand on his wife's shoulder with a protesting pressure, said: "There, little woman, don't go building hopes on such a thing as this.
— from Dorothy by Evelyn Raymond