The exit to reality is closed only through the condition of sleep.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

The ablative which is used to express this relation is called the ablative of time . 275.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

This sensation coming on as soon as I began to sleep, and the effort to relieve it constantly awaking me, at length I slept only from exhaustion; and from increasing weakness (as I said before)
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

The ablative which is used to express this relation is called the ablative of time . 275. Rule.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Others again, in that opposite extreme, do as great harm by their too much remissness, they give them no bringing up, no calling to busy themselves about, or to live in, teach them no trade, or set them in any good course; by means of which their servants, children, scholars, are carried away with that stream of drunkenness, idleness, gaming, and many such irregular courses, that in the end they rue it, curse their parents, and mischief themselves.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The Spanish army at the beginning of the revolt had consisted of but fifteen hundred troops, but so serious was the revolt regarded [ 284 ] that Spain, although straining every energy at the moment to end the rebellion in Cuba, strengthened the forces in the Philippines, until Polavieja had an army of twenty-eight thousand Spaniards assisted by several loyal Filipino regiments.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Unweakened by the disorganization into which the State was falling, it was ready to show itself at home the one strong and steady institution in the confusion of the time, and to begin at once to exercise the rights it claimed but had never been able to secure.
— from The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) by George Burton Adams

Although the manufacturers possessed a relatively soft rubber in the form of washed Fine Para, it was customary in most cases to employ this rubber in conjunction with washed lower grades to produce a soft plastic material for further treatment.
— from The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan

To escape the rain I climbed up the half-burnt rafters of a cottage to a room in which a portion of the floor and a corner of the roof were still in position—I cannot say intact.
— from In the Russian Ranks: A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland by John Morse

His unquiet mind has discovered some new and striking relation between the true and the beautiful; the very next step is to express that relation in clay, or in colour, or in words.
— from The White Sister by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

On landing in England the head-quarters proceeded to Northampton, where the regiment was inspected by Major-General Sir Henry Warde, who informed the commanding officer, Lieut.-Colonel Evan Lloyd, that he had been sent to examine the regiment in consequence of it being supposed to be unfit for service; but that he should report it composed of the finest men, the best horses, and equipped with the best appointments of any corps he had inspected.
— from Historical record of the Seventeenth Regiment of Light Dragoons;—Lancers Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1759 and of its subsequent services to 1841. by Richard Cannon

The dignity of suffrage is thus lowered; and, in placing it in the scale with an inferior thing, the enthusiasm that right is capable of inspiring is diminished.
— from The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Thomas Paine

He makes himself offensive in Elis; he instigates Greece to revolt against Rome; he finds a man of enlarged views and established character [6] , a public benefactor in general, and in particular the originator of the water-supply to Olympia, which saved that great assembly from perishing of thirst—and he has nothing but hard words for him; "Greece is demoralized," he cries; "the spectators of the games should have done without water, ay, and died if need be,"—and so many of them would have done, from the violence of the epidemics then raging in consequence of the drought.
— from The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 04 by of Samosata Lucian

"And, as a prisoner, to whose honour is confided the charge of his own keeping, thou engagest to remain in captivity, without abusing the confidence which allows such license, by any efforts to escape?" "Dost thou demand this much of me?" said Don Amador, with mortified and dejected looks.
— from Calavar; or, The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird