Such was the religion that a young, swarthy man of medium height took with him as he trudged off to the University of Erfurt in May 1501.

[…] as God forbid that anyone should hint a slightening word of what our sons and brothers are doing just now, and doing for us!

Nay, lady, sit. If I but wave this wand, Your nerves are all chain’d up in alabaster, And you a statue, or, as Daphnë was, Root-bound, that fled Apollo.

In French most vowels are half-long, and are only occasionally lengthened or shortened into full longs and shorts.