In words borrowed from the Greek an unfamiliar sequence of consonants was so lightened; as, mina , mina , for *mna ( μνᾶ ); and in Old Latin drachuma (Plaut.) for later drachma , drachma ( δραχμή ); techina , trick , from Greek τέχνη ; Tecumēssa for Tecmēssa ( Τέκμησσα ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Had he been alone he would have treated it as a matter of course, and would have strolled contentedly up and down his gravel walk until some one came home; but he was hurt at the stain on his character of host, especially as the guest was a pupil.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

But a deep, underlying spirit of cautiousness prevented his often yielding to appetite in such measure as to lose control of himself.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

This startled me broad awake—as an undefined sense of calamity is always apt to do.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

I therefore taught the Ranchi students my simple "Yogoda" techniques by which the life force, centred in man's medulla oblongata, can be consciously and instantly recharged from the unlimited supply of cosmic energy.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

first gave me the fidgets coming in without knocking first when I put the chair against the door just as I was washing myself there below with the glove get on your nerves then doing the loglady all day put her in a glasscase with two at a time to look at her if he knew she broke off the hand off that little gimcrack statue with her roughness and carelessness before she left that I got that little Italian boy to mend so that you cant see the join for 2 shillings wouldnt even teem the potatoes for you of course shes right not to ruin her hands I noticed he was always talking to her lately at the table explaining things in the paper and she pretending to understand sly of course that comes from his side of the house he cant say I pretend things can he Im too honest as a matter of fact and helping her into her coat but if there was anything wrong with her its me shed tell not him I suppose he thinks Im finished out and laid on the shelf
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to subscribers in any part of the United States or Canada.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 by Various

Unmistakable symptoms of consumption made their appearance; the local doctors proved wholly incompetent to deal with the case; at last, it became only a question of waiting [132] until the season was warm enough for a journey home.
— from Studies in Modern Music, Second Series Frederick Chopin, Antonin Dvořák, Johannes Brahms by W. H. (William Henry) Hadow

Ah! why is it that on that noble soil of the United States our church is still, I do not say unknown, but despised, by so many souls?
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

"I am hidden unless some one chooses to betray me; not that I care for myself, but I cannot involve my generous cousin in such a trouble."
— from Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of Richmond by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

The upper set of chambers we ourselves saw, going through them, and we tell of them having looked upon them with our own eyes; but the chambers under ground we heard about only; for the Egyptians who had charge of them were not willing on any account to show them, saying that here were the sepulchres of the kings who had first built this labyrinth and of the sacred crocodiles.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

I did not hear the drums until some one called me.
— from Cadet Days: A Story of West Point by Charles King