The old fathers preached and railed against wigs, the Calvinists raised an insurrection in Bordeaux on the same account, and English Roundheads consigned to an unmentionable place every man who allowed his hair to grow according to nature.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

"To these sad shores unknowing" the medico began to sing in a pleasant tenor, "An unknown power entices....
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Yet as members of the Aryan family the Greeks must at one time or another have observed harvest customs like those which are still practised by Celts, Teutons, and Slavs, and which, far beyond the limits of the Aryan world, have been practised by the Indians of Peru and many peoples of the East Indies—a sufficient proof that the ideas on which these customs rest are not confined to any one race, but naturally suggest themselves to all untutored peoples engaged in agriculture.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

"To these sad shores unknowing" the medico began to sing in a pleasant tenor, "An unknown power entices...." "Behold the mill" ...
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The ‘Prince of this world’ became thus an unmeaning phrase except for the heretics.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The officials, after hunting all through the village, as they assured us, produced eight or ten eggs, which they said was all they could find.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

The conditional mood is often employed to express conjecture as to a (usually) past event, just as the future indicative is used to express conjecture about a (usually) present event.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Tiberini ab uxorum partu earum vices subeunt, ut aves per vices incubant, &c. 6052 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“Now, you two, try and understand plain English.
— from The Black Bar by George Manville Fenn

The transepts, therefore, are unusually prominent, even for an English cathedral, and they have many other unusual features.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of York A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See by A. (Arthur) Clutton-Brock

We do not wish to discuss further the fact that a university polity, exclusively in the spirit of a liberalism that gradually goes over into radicalism, would constitute a grave danger for Christian traditions.
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

The sum of my argument is—that, because, in comparison of the army, no other civil profession is, in itself, held of sufficient dignity, and not less, perhaps, because, under governments essentially unpopular, none of these professions has been so dignified artificially by the state, or so attached to any ulterior promotion, either through the state or in the state, as to meet the demands of aristocratic pride, none of them is cultivated as a means of distinction, but
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey

It was probably to his mother, whom he strongly resembled in childhood, that the famous son owed his tremendous and unparalleled physical endurance.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 1 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

"That's not what you said when the signorina nursed you through the ague, ungrateful pig!" exclaimed the man's wife, with charming candor.
— from Wild Margaret by Charles Garvice

out for himself, and decline to assist unless paid extra for their trouble
— from Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Japan and China by Thomas Wallace Knox

Engines of the slide-valve type are usually provided either with a fly-ball throttling governor, or a shaft governor.
— from Steam Engines by Anonymous

[ 124 ] Lardner calls attention to the fact that as under pagan emperors previous to Constantine Christianity had been in a state of persecution, so now, after Constantine, he proceeds to show that paganism under Christian emperors was all along in a state of persecution—"However, I would hope, not so severe and vigorous as that of the Christians in the foregoing period of near three hundred years."
— from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Volume 1 Period 1. History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet by Smith, Joseph, Jr.

l'Arno, je vins des bords du Rhône; Je vis de l'Occident l'auguste Babylone: Rome, toujours vivante au fond de ses tombeaux, Reine du monde encor sur un débris de trône, Avec une pourpre en lambeaux.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. III, 1826 to 1830 by Alexandre Dumas