Remember Dr. West's warning— ( Chalmers, making an unusually violent effort to get at Knox, suddenly staggers weakly back, signs of pain on his face, holding a hand convulsively clasped over his heart.
— from Theft: A Play In Four Acts by Jack London

We entered a little fortalice with a cannon in it, in an embrasure which at that moment struck me as unnecessarily vast, even though it was partly closed by a frail packing-case lid.
— from France at War: On the Frontier of Civilization by Rudyard Kipling

The next influence which we shall mention as undoubtedly very effective in assisting the production of neuralgia in certain cases is that of anæmia and mal-nutrition generally; but it is not necessary to dwell on this at any length.
— from Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis Edmund Anstie

Thus: Matutinus adest ubi Vesper, et accipiens te Saepe recusatum voces intelligit hospes Rusticus ignotas notas, ac flumina tellus Occupat--In sancto tum, tum, stans Aede caveto Tonsuram Hirsuti Capitis, via namque pedestrem Ferrea praeveniens cursum, peregrine, laborem 153 THE ENGLISH OF IT Pro pietate tuâ inceptum frustratur, amore Antiqui Ritus alto sub Numine Romae.
— from The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc

Matthew Merrygreek, an unmistakable 'Vice' ever at Ralph's elbow, is of all Vices the shrewdest striker of laughter out of a block of stupidity: it is from his ingenious brain that almost every absurd scene is evolved for the ridiculing of Ralph.
— from The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne