The imperfect of most of the above verbs and verbal expressions often relates to action not performed at the present time: as, hīs aliās poteram subnectere causās; sed eundum est , J. 3, 315, to these I might add other grounds; but I must go .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

It may have been partly on her account that Pope pitched upon Twickenham as his abiding place.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

Have you prepar'd Those ladies to attend her; and procur'd That politic safe conveyance for the midwife Your duchess plotted? ANTONIO.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

Let husky wheat the haughs adorn, An' aits set up their awnie horn, An' pease and beans, at e'en or morn, Perfume the plain: Leeze me on thee, John Barleycorn, Thou king o' grain!
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Note 24 ( return ) [ In the various compilation of the Augustan History, (a part of which was composed under the reign of Constantine,) there are not six lines which relate to the Christians; nor has the diligence of Xiphilin discovered their name in the large history of Dion Cassius.
— 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 Author. H2 anchor PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

This last is sure to stand by the old gentleman, right or wrong, likes nothing so much as a rocketing, roistering life, and is ready at a wink or nod to out sabre and flourish it over the orator’s head if he dares to array himself against parental authority.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Those chaps didn't need to act, they just turned a handle and passed into another life, which came as naturally to them as the first.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

Whatever is known to thyself alone has always {pg 541} very great value.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

This ending, apparently so simple, should show the student the enormous difficulties to be surmounted, Page 16 {16} even when there are hardly any pieces left, when playing against an adversary who knows how to use the resources at his disposal, and it should show the student, also, the necessity of paying strict attention to these elementary things which form the basis of true mastership in Chess.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

Till tired and hated All passions sated .—[MS.
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

“The first few months they were as happy as a couple in a play, she thinking almost as much of him as he thought of himself, which must have been a comfort to both of them, and he as proud of her as if he made her himself.
— from The Observations of Henry Illustrated by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

The story was immediately told against her, and provoked laughter, especially from the Squire, who said, "The young monkeys!
— from The Honour of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall

Or, better still, we'll go over to Hey Tor and have a picnic on our own.
— from Blackthorn Farm by Arthur Applin

At different times at least two captains had consented to afford him a private passage to Philadelphia, but like the impotent man at the pool, some one always got ahead of him.
— from The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever.
— from Notes on the Apocalypse by David Steele

But the complexion even of external things seemed to suffer transmutation as her announcement progressed.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Hazlitt, who was more than indirectly concerned in the affair, had a professed objection to duelling, which would have been more creditable to him if he had not been avowedly of a timid temper.
— from Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury

Crayon is easy to apply, has a pleasing color tone, is clean and very satisfactory for the beginner.
— from Toy Craft by Leon H. Baxter

"Send for Mrs. de Noël," cried Mrs. Mallet in tones necessarily raised to a high and piercing key by the sobs with which they were accompanied.
— from Cecilia de Noël by Lanoe Falconer