For the current is strong, deep, and turbid, and the islands are so thick together that they serve to imprison the alluvial deposit and prevent its dispersing, lying, as they do, not in one line, but irregularly, so as to leave no direct passage for the water into the open sea.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Cum tacito delirio ac dolore alicujus partis internae, dorsi, hypochondrii, cordis regionem et universam mammam interdum occupantis, &c. Cutis aliquando squalida, aspera, rugosa, praecipue cubitis, genibus, et digitorum articulis, praecordia ingenti saepe torrore aestuant et pulsant, cumque vapor excitatus sursum evolat, cor palpitat aut premitur, animus deficit, &c. 2653 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[1] Golfo Mejicano, siendo el centinela avanzado del archipiélago, punto intermediario del comercio en día
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

A House of Representatives already condemned by a popular verdict is but a poor guardian of the rights of the people; and a defeated administration performs its duties in the most indifferent manner.
— from Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 by George S. (George Sewall) Boutwell

It is in those choice repositories that we can even yet revel in that fine figure of speech called “ circumbendibus ;” and were it not for these and a few eloquent barristers, and divers aggrieved parishioners in divers little city parishes which become immortalized by vestry squabbles, we should have scarcely any eloquence at all.
— from Rank and Talent; A Novel, Vol. 3 (of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

HENRY GOLDSMITH Dear Sir , I am sensible that the friendship between us can acquire no new force from the ceremonies of a dedication; and perhaps it demands an excuse thus to prefix your name to my attempts, which you decline giving with your own.
— from Dalziels' Illustrated Goldsmith by Oliver Goldsmith

After dat always people in de house.
— from By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

As a deodorant and prophylactic in dental work ,.. .
— from The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)

And for avoiding doubts, and preventing inconvenient delay in the delivery of letters, Be it declared and enacted, That no Post Master shall be bound to give change, but the exact amount of the postage on any letter or packet shall be tendered or paid to him in current coin or in Provincial Postage stamps.
— from Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Clifton A. (Clifton Armstrong) Howes

These hillocks were essentially low, flat-topped, truncated cones of earthwork, usually surrounded by a ditch, and placed in direct connection with a larger defensive {52} enclosure.
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson

And for avoiding doubts, and preventing inconvenient delay in the posting and delivery of letters,—no Postmaster shall be bound to give change, but the exact amount of the postage on any letter or other mailable matter shall be tendered or paid to him in current coin as respects letters or other things delivered, bearing unpaid postage, as shall also the exact value in current coin as respects postage stamps, registration stamps, stamped envelopes or post cards, post bands or wrappers, purchased from any Postmaster and the exact amount of postage payable to any letter-carrier on any letter or mailable matter delivered by him.
— from Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Clifton A. (Clifton Armstrong) Howes

There is not sufficient national unity in any of the tribes to give occasion for such a despotism as prevails in Dahomey, and in other of the African nationalities.
— from History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams