Κράτιστος, η, ον, (super. from κρατύς, strongest) in N.T., κράτιστε, a term of respect, most excellent, noble, or illustious, Lu.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

So at least I thought, but it is plain that I know nothing about them, nor indeed much of my own countrymen; I should never have thought that English soldiers could have marched fast enough to overtake Russians, more especially with such a being to command them, as ---, whom I, and indeed almost every one else have always considered a dead weight on the English service.
— from Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Borrow

Now follow my train of reasoning, Mr. Engelman!
— from Jezebel's Daughter by Wilkie Collins

To appeal to a principle of greater sweep than the occasion requires may easily open the way to this pitfall: as if a man should urge that 'all men are liars,' as the premise of an argument designed to show that another's assertion is less credible than his own.
— from Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

As far as the participants are concerned, the patent pool is almost like the public domain—but a privatized public domain, a park that only residents may enter.
— from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle

I warn the reader, therefore, (or rather, my explanation has already warned him,) that he is not to infer from any casual gleam of luxury or elegance a corresponding elevation of rank.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various

In the transport I then was, I know not how I returned the graceful salute the incomparable Sydimiris gave me; for most certain it is, that I was so lost in wonder, at the sight of the many charms I beheld in her person, that I could not unlock my tongue, or remove my eyes from her enchanting face; but remained fixed in a posture which at once expressed my admiration and delight.
— from The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella, v. 1-2 by Charlotte Lennox

I thought of relating my experience to my wife, but feared to alarm her, and finally went back to my birds.
— from True Tales of the Weird: a record of personal experiences of the supernatural by Sidney Dickinson

From these sources such supplies of skim milk as were considered an advisable supplement to the ordinary rations might easily be obtained.
— from Australia, The Dairy Country by Australia. Department of External Affairs

“I mean I think we measure things often rather more exactly.”
— from The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End by Henry James

—As below. 4 9 2 3 5 7 8 1 6 How may the first 16 digits be arranged so that the sum of the vertical, the horizontal, and the two oblique rows may equal 34?
— from Conundrums, Riddles and Puzzles Containing one thousand of the latest and best conundrums, gathered from every conceivable source, and comprising many that are entirely new and original by Dean Rivers