I went straight up, such a figure, I pestered him with nasty talk, while his colleagues and superiors and petitioners were standing round.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

To express habitual or repeated action, the past tense, without would , is usually sufficient, and from its brevity, more emphatic.
— from The Elements of Style by William Strunk

yusapi, yusápi n acronym for USAFFE, United States Armed Forces in the Far East (of the postwar period).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Following the undocking Saturday, Apollo fired its engines briefly and moved away from Soyuz .
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy

This is, as it were, the true underlying substance, and fame is only an accident, affecting its subject chiefly as a kind of external symptom, which serves to confirm his own opinion of himself.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

The men who are entrusted with the direction of public affairs in the United States are frequently inferior, both in point of capacity and of morality, to those whom aristocratic institutions would raise to power.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

We went up stairs, and found in an old drawer three rusty keys, which we brought down; one of them opened the door, which, on being pushed rather forcibly, fell from its hinges.
— from Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War. With The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions by Alexis Soyer

Degree being vizarded, The unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask.
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9] by William Shakespeare

But while enjoying the same rights, he would be under the same disabilities, and be subject to the performance of the same duties as a citizen of the United States, as, for instance, to pay taxes, and to perform military or jury duty.
— from The Anglo-Saxon Century and the Unification of the English-Speaking People by John R. (John Randolph) Dos Passos

Many of them grate upon one's ear, and such as sun and stone vex one's sense of melody, indeed, are not rhymes: whilst some words used, such as for instance Revenue , accord ill with verse at all.
— from Critical Studies by Ouida

Issued by examinations staff of the United States Armed Forces Institute of which Ralph W. Tyler is director.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1973 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Carpaccio has already used such a figure in the funeral scene, and Titian himself adopts his suggestion.
— from The Venetian School of Painting by Evelyn March Phillipps

Upon such a foundation I will never attempt to build an hypothesis, or to draw a conclusion; because the same water-mark of Bamberg and of Mentz, of Venice and of Rome, may be found within books printed both at the commencement and at the end of the fifteenth century.
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin