"The Court of Augustus had not _wore_ off the manners of the republic"
--Hume's _Essays_.

"Moses tells us that the fountains of the earth were _broke_ open or
clove asunder."--Burnet.

"A free constitution when it has been _shook_ by the iniquity of
former administrations."--_Bolingbroke_.

"In this respect the seeds of future divisions were _sowed_ abundantly."
--_Ibid_.

In the following example the present participle is used for the infinitive
mood:

"It is easy _distinguishing_ the rude fragment of a rock from the splinter
of a statue."--Gilfillan's _Literary Portraits_.

_Distinguishing_ here should be replaced by _to distinguish_.

The rules regarding _shall_ and _will_ are violated in the following:

"If we look within the rough and awkward outside, we _will_ be
richly rewarded by its perusal."--Gilfillan's _Literary Portraits_.

"If I _should_ declare them and speak of them, they should be more
than I am able to express."--_Prayer Book Revision of Psalms XI_.

"If I _would_ declare them and speak of them, they are more than can
be numbered."--_Ibid_.