At all events, she congratulated herself upon having fallen into the hands of her brother-in-law, with whom she reckoned she could deal very easily, rather than into the hands of an acknowledged and intelligent enemy.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

'For what am I summoned hither?' said the Daemon, in a voice which sulphurous fogs had damped to hoarseness— At the sound Nature seemed to tremble: A violent earthquake rocked the ground, accompanied by a fresh burst of Thunder, louder and more appalling than the first.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

This victory emboldened Ragnar to hope that he could overcome any peril, and he attacked and slew Sorle with the entire forces he was leading.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Here the context shows that ventūrōs esse represents the imperfect subjunctive.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

30 These fens [338] from which vile exhalations rise The doleful city all around invest, Which now we reach not save in angry wise.’
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

I heard from Portsmouth yesterday, and as I am to send them more clothes, they cannot be expecting a very early return to us.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

He was sitting in a state of nudity, excepting his waistcloth, very earnestly reading the Bible, which indeed was his constant practice; and I could see that he was perusing the Sermon on the Mount.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Being himself at the head of an expedition into those territories, he could observe those who voluntarily encountered risks; these he made rulers of the territory which he subjected, and afterwards honoured them with other gifts.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

In the chemical natural process we observe the most varied elements related to each other in the most various ways.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

—By far the larger number of minerals have been formed in the cooling and consequent consolidation of molten rock material such as during a volcanic eruption reaches the earth’s surface as lava.
— from Earth Features and Their Meaning An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader by William Herbert Hobbs

Also, that President Colbrith and his fellow-investors might very easily refuse to consider any other phase of the revolutionary proposition he was about to lay before them.
— from Empire Builders by Francis Lynde

"The inference is that I, having listened to the ghostly voices, am doomed to a sudden and violent end," remarked the shabby stranger quite gloomily.
— from The House of Whispers by William Le Queux

The same article contains the statement that the Essenic Brotherhood taught a certain "view entertained regarding the origin, present state, and future destiny of the soul, which was held to be pre-existent, being entrapped in the body as in a prison ," etc.
— from Mystic Christianity; Or, The Inner Teachings of the Master by William Walker Atkinson

48, in text, from vase found at Cumæ; the marble group in the Vatican, Europa riding the Bull; painting by Paolo Veronese, The Rape of Europa; Europa, by Claude Lorrain.
— from The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855) by Thomas Bulfinch

National development since 1860 has been shaped to a large degree by fundamental political and economic changes that occurred during the war—changes which were for the moat part the effect of various expedients resorted to by the federal government to bring the struggle for the preservation of the Union to a successful issue.
— from Outline of the development of the internal commerce of the United States 1789-1900 by Thurman William Van Metre

The injunction to the Ephesians concerning the relations in the married state is also given to the Colossians, very evidently relating to the same thing: love and unwavering fidelity between man and wife.
— from Woman: Man's Equal by Thomas Webster