Nam si venerit, modo valeat mea authoritas, vivum exire nunquam patiar.’
— from Servetus and Calvin A Study of an Important Epoch in the Early History of the Reformation by Robert Willis

--- {172} Where machines are very expensive, new improvements, that require other machinery, are sometimes crushed and rejected on that account.
— from An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. Designed To Shew How The Prosperity Of The British Empire May Be Prolonged by William Playfair

Besides, all the dogs you mention are very expensive nowadays.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-11-03 by Various

It was very hot, but Mackintosh felt cold, his hands and his feet were like ice, and he had to make a violent effort not to tremble in all his limbs.
— from The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Blekeke was walking stiffly, slowly, keeping the blaster pointed at us, making a visible effort not to turn around.
— from The Telenizer by Don Thompson

This historical chronology was a little unsettled by the researches made among various eastern nations—the Chinese, the Egyptians, and the Indians.
— from Primitive Man by Louis Figuier

In rapid succession, Pennsylvania and Maryland and Virginia, eager not to be outdone in winning the struggle for Western trade, sent their canals into the Alleghanies toward the Ohio.
— from The Paths of Inland Commerce; A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and Waterway by Archer Butler Hulbert

It was not until March 4, 1778, after Rogers had gone through many and varied experiences, not the least of which was serving a term in the Debtors' Prison in England, that his wife was granted, by the New Hampshire Legislature, a decree of divorce.
— from Ponteach The Savages of America by Robert Rogers