Libido effrenata effrenatam appetentiam efficit —Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

And Aristotle says, that innumerable writers wrote panegyrics and epitaphs upon Gryllus, partly out of a wish to gratify his father.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

3, and which Mr. Maundrel saw, and describes, p. 100, as extant under ground at this day.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

At one moment he imagined himself in Von Rabbek’s drawing-room beside a girl who was like the young lady in lilac and the fair girl in black; then he would close his eyes and see himself with another, entirely unknown girl, whose features were very vague.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Su lenguaje no es italiano ni español, aunque participa de ambos; es una graciosa mezcolanza de palabras españolas italianizadas y vice-versa, formada por él para su uso particular.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

[ Though at this time they were greatly reduced by migrations, inundations and wars, they afterwards revived; and from this storehouse of nations came forth the Franks, Saxons, Normans, and various other tribes, which brought all Europe under Germanic sway.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

Even a treasury officer, who is an enlightened university graduate, in counting money, will say six and one.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

The day after Christmas, General Otis at last sent an expedition under General Marcus P. Miller to the relief of Iloilo, but when it arrived, December 28th, the Spaniards had already turned the town over to the insurgent authorities, and sailed away.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

“He has effected it,” replied the missionary, “partly by accident, partly by her extraordinary beauty and endowments, and partly, I must own, by my assistance, which I have given because I thereby ensured to her the kindest and most respectful treatment, and also endeavoured, under God’s blessing, to make her instrumental in sowing the seed of His truth among these benighted savages.”
— from The Prairie-Bird by Murray, Charles Augustus, Sir

But he felt some dismay, for he knew by the swift flash of azure eyes under golden lashes, by the sway of her shoulders as she paced the terrace, by the nervous tapping of her slippered foot at certain times in the intervals of table chat—that Cora was thinking .
— from Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch

Love for the Union, a belief in a simple, economical, and even unheroic government, a jealousy of taking money from the people, and a scrupulous restriction upon the use of public moneys for any but public purposes, a strict limitation of federal powers, a dislike of slavery and an opposition to its extension,—these made up one of the great and fruitful political creeds of America, a creed which had ardent and hopeful apostles a half century ago, and which, save in the articles which touched slavery and are now happily obsolete, will doubtless find apostles no less ardent and hopeful a half century hence.
— from Martin Van Buren by Edward Morse Shepard

On the other hand, the vigour of our movements, and the large reserves of men, arms, and munitions brought from England, at length restored our shaken power, and enabled us gradually, but firmly, to re-establish our authority throughout the numerous provinces under our rule.
— from Recollections of a Military Life by Adye, John, Sir

And perused your Concessions, did [pg 438] finde some of these Concessions destructive to the Covenant, and all or them unsatisfactorie, and did therefore emit a Declaration concerning the same, least your Majesties Subjects in this Kingdom should have unawares imbarked themselves in an Engagement upon grounds not consisting with the good of Religion, and the Solemn League and Covenant.
— from The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

In September, an expedition under General Burbridge was sent to destroy the saltworks at Saltville, Virginia.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

In response to her letters of thanks, he visited her again and again, bringing sunshine into her darkened life with his presence, and soothing her with words of sympathy and encouragement, until gratitude to the "good Samaritan" grew into love for the man.
— from Love affairs of the Courts of Europe by Thornton Hall

There was an enraptured upward glance, an ecstatic smile, then the eyes closed and all was still; without a struggle or a groan the spirit had dropped its tenement of clay and sped away on its upward flight.
— from Elsie's Womanhood by Martha Finley