To be content with what we at present know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the very gradual character of our education, we must continually forget, and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire.
— from The Iliad by Homer

In the imperfect subjunctive, forem , forēs , foret , and forent are sometimes used (Nep., Sall., Liv., Vell.).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

He came to meet him, red and perspiring, with unbuttoned neckband, still limping in the same way.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

ANGELA BURDETT-COUTTS Long with us, now she leaves us; she has rest Beneath our sacred sod: A woman vowed to Good, whom all attest, The daylight gift of God.
— from Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith

610 —— Non illi flamma, nec undæ , Nec sterilis Libye, nec Syrticus obstitit Ammon .
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 3 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

[198] Follows the usual "No ship like our ship" talkee, and a note of where she was at the time.
— from Sea Warfare by Rudyard Kipling

Until now Sara Lee had given small thought to Henri's occupation.
— from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart