Quos donis amplis ditavit, et qui cum eo morari voluerunt libenter et honorifice detinuit.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

As the first species of distance is found to be convertible into the second, it is in this respect a kind of cause; and the similarity of their manner of affecting the senses, and diminishing every quality, forms the relation of resemblance.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Our calmer reflection will suggest, that such forms and delays are necessary to guard the person and property of the citizen; that the discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny; and that the laws of a free people should foresee and determine every question that may probably arise in the exercise of power and the transactions of industry.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

la pared me la rompo; bien sabe la señora que si ahora dice ella que es de día, yo, aunque vea la 25 noche, creeré que me equivoco y que es claro día; bien sabe la señora que ella y su hacienda son antes que mi vida, y que si delante de mí la pica un mosquito, le perdono porque es mosquito; bien sabe la señora que la quiero más que a cuanto hay debajo del sol....
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

He is especially addicted to soma, of which he is described as drinking enormous quantities to stimulate him in the performance of his warlike exploits.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

In tenui victu aegri delinquunt, ex quo fit ut majori afficiantur detrimento, majorque fit error tenui quam pleniore victu.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[Pg 417] may be, whether sight, sound, smell, blow, or inner pain,—or else it is an instinctive stimulus, a perception which, by reason of its nature rather than its mere force, appeals to some one of our normal congenital impulses and has a directly exciting quality.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

medicō putō aliquid dandum esse, quō sit studiōsior , Fam.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

In involuntary attention of the immediate sensorial sort the stimulus is either a sense-impression, very intense, voluminous, or sudden; or it is an instinctive stimulus, a perception which, by reason of its nature rather than its mere force, appeals to some one of our congenital impulses and has a directly exciting quality.
— from Psychology: Briefer Course by William James

et disposez les de telle maniere qu'elles forment tantot des rues, et tantot des quartiers separes: coupez ces divers quartiers de prairies et de bois: repandez par tout dans cette grande foret, autant d'hommes qu'on en voit dans nos villes, lorsqu'elles sont bien peuplees; vous vous formerez une idee assez juste d'Achen; et vous conviendrez qu'une ville de ce gout nouveau peut faire plaisir a des etrangers qui passent.
— from The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden

But the legend has shed its romance on the immortal heights of the towers of Marboré; and, to account for the fissure in the rock, it must be [518] with these in our recollection, that we read that quaint apostrophe to his sword which the chronicler has preserved:— After laying himself down beneath a rock, Roland drew his sword, Durendal, and regarding it "with great pity and compassion," he exclaimed, in a loud voice, "plorant et larmoyant:"— "O très beau cousteau resplendissant, qui tant as duré et qui as ésté si large, si ferme et si forte, en manche de clere yvoire: duquel la croix est faicte d'or et la supface dorée decorée et embellye du pommeau faiet de pierres de beril; escript et engravé du grand nô de Dieu singulier, Alpha et OO.
— from Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Louisa Stuart Costello

extérieur, e , qui est au dehors. extraordinaire , qui n'est pas selon l'usage ordinaire.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

[257] One of these slabs has the inscription, “Orate pro anima Albini de Enderby qui fecit fieri istam ecclesiam cum campanile, qui obiit in Vigillia Sancti Matthie Apostoli, Anno MCCCCVII.”
— from Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by James Conway Walter

Austris Densat erant quæ rara modo, & quæ densa, relaxat; Vertuntur species animorum; & pectora motus Nunc alios; alios, dum nubila ventus agebat, [Pg 198] Concipiunt:
— from Lectures on Poetry Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford by Joseph Trapp