There is no difference between "u" and "u" with a breve, and there is no way to determine (without prior knowledge of the word(s) involved, and sometimes a bit of context) whether an "h" following one of those other five letters is really the second half of a diacritical pair, or just an "h" that happened to find itself next to one of them.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Any group of delinquents is subject to this selection from the times of offenses to final commitment.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

In thus investigating the first traces of my sensible existence, I find elements, which, though seemingly incompatible, have united to produce a simple and uniform effect; while others, apparently the same, have, by the concurrence of certain circumstances, formed such different combinations, that it would never be imagined they had any affinity; who would believe, for example, that one of the most vigorous springs of my soul was tempered in the identical source from whence luxury and ease mingled with my constitution and circulated in my veins?
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It was agreed between them , to ask what was the opinion of the experienced Tiresias.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

We passed round the lawn to the outside of the young diplomatist's window.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

A regular scale of fines, from ten to two hundred pounds of silver, was curiously ascertained, according to the distinction of rank and fortune, to punish the crime of assisting at a schismatic conventicle; and if the fine had been levied five times, without subduing the obstinacy of the offender, his future punishment was referred to the discretion of the Imperial court.
— 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

All through the last four months of 1898, the two hostile armies faced each other in a mood which it needed but a spark to ignite, awaiting the outcome of the peace negotiations arranged for in September, commenced in October, and concluded in December.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

I left a note for Julius, in case he was Mr. Brown, saying I was off to the Argentine, and I dropped Sir James’s letter with the offer of the job by the desk so that he would see it was a genuine stunt.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

I say so because his fate brought him to my galley and to my bench, and made him a slave to the same master; and before we left the port this gentleman composed two sonnets by way of epitaphs, one on the Goletta and the other on the fort; indeed, I may as well repeat them, for I have them by heart, and I think they will be liked rather than disliked.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The success of such undertakings will depend, on the one hand, on the rapidity with which the opportunities secured by such surprise are utilized, and, on the other, on the available fighting power, which must suffice to break down all opposition with certainty and speed.
— from Cavalry in Future Wars by Friedrich von Bernhardi

This faith and this worship were already manifested "in their incomparable splendor by the ceremonies attending the opening of the États Généraux in 1614, dominated, not, as in 1789, by the august and abstract idea of the nation, but by the pale and melancholy figure of a boy of thirteen."
— from Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton

The message on the outside ( Fig. 103 ) leads to the opening of the invitation ( Fig. 104 ), and on the inside are found the time and place where the frolic is to take place and the names of those who are to give the party.
— from Things Worth Doing and How To Do Them by Lina Beard

The only thing that could have prevented their being liable was [Pg 246] that, under the circumstances, the contention was possible that the owner of the stock had been so negligent in his dealing with the certificates as to preclude him from asserting any right.
— from Commercial Law by Richard William Hill

In January 1944, when Lee was 4, he was taken out of the orphanage, and shortly thereafter his mother moved with him to Dallas, Tex., where the older boys joined them at the end of the school year.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

The books of the Round Table (7) teach us that it is not to the honour of a worthy knight to overcome one that is good for naught.” 7 Queen Margaret was well acquainted with these (see ante , vol. iii.
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

Upon which a haberdasher, who was the oracle of the coffee-house, and had his circle of admirers about him, called several to witness that he had declared his opinion, above a week before, that the French King was certainly dead; to which he added, that considering the late advices we had received from France, it was impossible that it could be otherwise.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I mentioned to one of them that I had been employed for some time in the Chinese Legation; he asked me if I had had much work to do.
— from Orpheus in Mayfair, and Other Stories and Sketches by Maurice Baring

The column was shortly ordered into Edenburg, and thence down the line to Springfontein, in order to operate on the west of the line.
— from Two Years on Trek: Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa by Louis Eugène Du Moulin

She also seemed a trifle out of temper.
— from The Lady of the Basement Flat by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.