Equivalent to and the rest , and so forth , and hence not to be used if one of these would be insufficient, that is, if the reader would be left in doubt as to any important particulars.
— from The Elements of Style by William Strunk

Thus then also the result above stated follows; and what Mr. Spencer calls " indefinite consciousness" is a " definite [192] consciousness" that we partly know, and are partly ignorant of the object under consideration.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

But these advantages only tend to aggravate the reproach and shame of a degenerate people.
— 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

What would have been the consequence, if such persons, by residence or otherwise, had acquired the character of citizens under the laws of another State, and then asserted their rights as such, both to residence and citizenship, within the State proscribing them?
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

It is held that the moralist’s function then is to perform this process of abstract contemplation, to arrange the results as systematically as possible, and by proper definitions and explanations to remove vagueness and prevent conflict.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

But alas, those notional divines, however condemned by the soberer judgment of others, are yet mightily pleased with themselves, and are so laboriously intent upon prosecuting their crabbed studies, that they cannot afford so much time as to read a single chapter in any one book of the whole bible.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

Worth declined to attend the review as subordinate to Twiggs until the question was settled by the highest authority.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

These are the revolutions and seditions that arise in oligarchies, and the causes to which they are owing: and indeed both democracies and oligarchies sometimes alter, not into governments of a contrary form, but into those of the same government; as, for instance, from having the supreme power in the law to vest it in the ruling party, or the contrariwise.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

There are the rooks, and stones, and old women;—all of which have ears."
— from The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope

On one occasion, Lord Robert Spencer contrived to lose the last shilling of his considerable fortune, given him by his brother, the Duke of Marlborough; General Fitzpatrick being much in the same condition, they agreed to raise a sum of money, in order that they might keep a faro bank.
— from Reminiscences of Captain Gronow by R. H. (Rees Howell) Gronow

But these two verses pleased her more than all the rest, and she recited them many times with great edification, wherefore I will insert them here:— "Judex ergo cum sedebit Quidquid latet apparebit Nil inultum remanebit: Item , Rex tremendæ majestatis Qui salvandos salvas gratis Salva me, fons pietatis!"
— from Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 by Wilhelm Meinhold

She tottered across the room and sank into a chair.
— from A Bride of the Plains by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Or what opportunity shall we have of displaying them, amidst the rigid and subtile arguments, objections, and replies, which he is obliged to make use of?
— from Essays by David Hume

There were several stammerers who were made to beat time and to release a syllable at each beat; and there was more than one timid child to be paternally conducted by the professor to the very far end of the huge room, and made to call out, “Can you hear my voice?” until the Head Master at his end signified that he could.
— from Fathers of Men by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

The unfortunate termination of his short reign, however, had a sobering influence upon the excited enthusiasts, so that they resolved to abandon those revolutionary and socialistic tendencies, to which their brethren in south and east Germany had never given way, or, if at all, only in isolated cases where they had been carried away by chiliastic expectations.
— from Church History, Volume 2 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

When thwarted he was liable to these accesses to rage, and, speaking figuratively, they spoilt his character.
— from Jess by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Some feign madness or idiocy as an excuse for their begging, for lunatics and crazy folk are considered sure of salvation by the Turks, and therefore regarded as saints whilst still on earth.
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2 by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq