The principal verb is retentus est , the subject lupus .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

In vain I run everywhere to meet him.
— from The Impostures of Scapin by Molière

But let us assume that the New York vote is really essential to the election of a candidate—that the vote [ 278 ] in the country as a whole is evidently so evenly divided that whichever candidate can win New York must be elected the next President.
— from The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson

Denmark: temperate; humid and overcast; mild, windy winters and cool summers Djibouti: desert; torrid, dry Dominica: tropical; moderated by northeast trade winds; heavy rainfall Dominican Republic: tropical maritime; little seasonal temperature variation; seasonal variation in rainfall Ecuador: tropical along coast, becoming cooler inland at higher elevations; tropical in Amazonian jungle lowlands Egypt: desert; hot, dry summers with moderate winters
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"Yes, you could see the Christmas tree, which Paul Valois is rich enough to 55 decorate.
— from Angel Unawares: A Story of Christmas Eve by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

He was all in black velvet, I remember, even to his thigh-boots which were laced up the sides with gold, and on his breast gleamed a fine medallion of diamonds.
— from The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina, in the state of Piacenza by Rafael Sabatini

During one vacation I remember exploring the valley of the Mulde with some other boys.
— from My Autobiography: A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

A more killing curse there does not exist for man or woman than the bitter combat between the weariness that prompts sleep and the keen, searching cold that forces you from that first access of sleep to start up horror-stricken, and to seek warmth vainly in renewed exercise, though long since fainting under fatigue.
— from A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography by Clifford Whittingham Beers

The stream of immigration steadily flowing westward in ever-increasing volume is rapidly exhausting the reserves of vacant land in that part of the Canadian west which used to be known, to the detriment of the territory farther to the north, as “The Fertile Belt.”
— from The Unexploited West A Compilation of all of the authentic information available at the present time as to the Natural Resources of the Unexploited Regions of Northern Canada by Ernest J. Chambers