Knowing that unless my plan proved an entire success it would be interpreted as a disastrous defeat, I provided in these instructions that in a certain event he was to cut loose from the Army of the Potomac and his base of supplies, and living upon the country proceed south by the way of the Danville Railroad, or near it, across the Roanoke, get in the rear of Johnston, who was guarding that road, and cooperate with Sherman in destroying Johnston; then with these combined forces to help carry out the instructions which Sherman already had received, to act in cooperation with the armies around Petersburg and Richmond.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

"Thou mayst search me if thou wilt, but thou wilt find nothing upon me, pouch, pocket, or skin.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

If we are to do our work properly, we must base it completely upon modern psycho physical fundamentals.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Among the adjectives that are compared irregularly are Positive Comparative Superlative bonus, -a, -um , good melior, melius optimus, -a, -um magnus, -a, -um , great maior, maius maximus, -a, -um malus, -a, -um , bad peior, peius pessimus, -a, -um multus, -a, -um , much ——, plūs plūrimus, -a, -um multī, -ae, -a , many plūrēs, plūra plūrimī, -ae, -a parvus, -a, -um , small minor, minus minimus, -a, -um 312.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

And what if my ancestor at that date was some Damoetas—feeding flocks, not his own, upon the hills of Lincoln—did I in less earnest vindicate to myself the family trappings of this once proud Ćgon?—repaying by a backward triumph the insults he might possibly have heaped in his life-time upon my poor pastoral progenitor.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

She understood me perfectly, perceived her own dangerous position, and promised that she would not send for the priest till she was certain of the sister’s death.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Among the adjectives that are compared irregularly are Positive Comparative Superlative bonus, -a, -um , good melior, melius optimus, -a, -um magnus, -a, -um , great maior, maius maximus, -a, -um malus, -a, -um , bad peior, peius pessimus, -a, -um multus, -a, -um , much ——, plûs plûrimus, -a, -um multî, -ae, -a , many plûrês, plûra plûrimî, -ae, -a parvus, -a, -um , small minor, minus minimus, -a, -um 312.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Diyútay ra siyag sulti, piru ug mutíngug, puntus pud, He doesn’t have much to say, but when he speaks, it is to the point.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

uncȳme unseemly, mean, paltry, poor .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Then couth I sing of love, and tune my pipe Unto my plaintive pleas in verses made; Then would I seek for queen-apples unripe; To give my Rosalind, and in summer shade Dight gaudy garlands was my common trade, To crown her golden locks; but years more ripe, And loss of her, whose love as life I weigh'd, Those weary wanton toys away did wipe. HOB.
— from The Shepheard's Calender: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes by Edmund Spenser

Convoys under military protection proceeded at stated intervals from place to place, without which nothing in the shape of food could be sent with safety.
— from The Irish Crisis by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Trevelyan

My dear Sir , 'I am going to write a scrawl, for the querulous egotism of which I must entreat your mercy; but, when I look upon my past, present, and future, and then into my own self, I find much, however unpleasant, that yearns for utterance.
— from The Brontë Family, with special reference to Patrick Branwell Brontë. Vol. 2 of 2 by Francis A. Leyland

These thoughts, or something like them, having entrenched themselves in the stronghold of my imagination, for some time held their ground gallantly against the attacks of common sense; but at length, repulsed on every point, they deemed it advisable to capitulate, or (to drop metaphor, a style of writing I particularly abominate, perhaps because I never more than half understand what it means) in plain English, I, with a sort of grimace, such as one makes before swallowing a dose of physic, set myself seriously to work to reflect upon my present position, and decide on the best line of conduct to be pursued for the future.
— from Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley

I can't chuse but laugh to hear the Fools prate about Preheminence: They would all fain be Masters, and yet they know they are but all my Servants; they make their Boast, of this and that, and talk of their great gains: and forget that I rule the Roast, and that both their gains and their very being here, depends upon my Pleasure: Pray Gentlemen, whose House is this?
— from The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women by Anonymous

In such various degree, fly and worm, ore and plant, All know, none is witless: around each, a wall Encloses the portion, or ample or scant, Of Knowledge: beyond which one hair's breadth, for all Lies blank—not so much as a blackness—a pall Some sense unimagined must penetrate: plain Is only old license to stand, walk or sit, Move so far and so wide in the narrow domain Allotted each nature for life's use: past it How immensity spreads does he guess?
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

perm., 1st) 128 -uru mono (pres. part., 1st) 131 -uru ni (ger., 1st) 130 -uru ni tçuite (pres.
— from Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Diego Collado

And as the ladies went upstairs, Mrs. Pocklington patted Laura’s shoulder with an approving fan.
— from Mr. Witt's Widow: A Frivolous Tale by Anthony Hope

Yours, &c. I had no sooner ended this, than one of my Land-lady's Children brought me in several others, with some of which I shall make up my present Paper, they all having a Tendency to the same Subject, viz .
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Moreover, by adopting the plan I have mentioned, you will embrace the spring importation and give time for digesting and maturing one upon more perfect principles; and, as the proposed system is intended to be but a temporary one, that I esteem to be best which requires the least time to form it.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress