[ ————Vallis te proxima misit, Appenninigenæ qua prata virentia sylvæ Spoletana metunt armenta gregesque protervi. Monaldeschi (tom. xii.
— 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

For with friends, Alas! not always in this mortal life, Where envy fills all hearts, and gloom prevails Much more than light, are we in converse join'd.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

In fact, I believe a more dreadful apparition was never raised in a church-yard, nor in the imagination of any good people met in a winter evening over a Christmas fire in Somersetshire.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The first winter he wore moccasins that were born yellow, but after many applications of oil and dirt assumed their mature color, a dirty, greenish brown; he wore a gray plaid mackinaw coat, and a red toboggan cap.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Malu ewyn, to foam Malur, n. what is reduced small, or mouldered; a mole-hill Maluriad, n. a mouldering Maluriedig, a. mouldered Malurio, v. to pound; to moulder Maluriol, a. mouldering Malurion, n. broken particles Malwod, n. snails Malwoden, n. a snail Mall, n. want of energy; softness; a soddened state; malady; evil; blast Mallaint, Mallawd, n. malaxation Malldan, n. slow fire Malldod, n. softness; wantonness; insipidity; a blast Malldorch, n. kibe on the heel Malldraul, n. bad digestion Malledigaeth, n. malaxation Malledd, n. soft state; a blasted state: wantonness Mallgno, n. a gnawing pain Mallgorn, n. core of a horn Mallt, n. an evil principle Mallu, v. to seeth; to blast Mallus, a. sodden; blasted Mallwaew, n. a dull pain Mam, n. a mother, a dam.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Before the which time the said ditch lay open, without wall or pale, having therein great store of very good fish, of divers sorts, as many men yet living, who have taken and tasted them, can well witness; but now no such matter: the [21] charge of cleansing is spared, and great profit made by letting out the banks, with the spoil of the whole ditch.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

They asked him all sorts of queer questions, tending to throw ridicule upon him, when he arose and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, permit me to wish you health and happiness, and may you grow better and wiser in advancing years, bearing in mind that outward appearances are deceitful.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

A Greek promised me a job there.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Arun ka makaganansiya, kulángi ug gamay ang takus, If you want to make a greater profit, make the measure a little bit short.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

‘What are your thoughts, then?’ ‘I’m thinking that when you rise from your chair and go past me, I watch you, and follow you with my eyes; if your dress does but rustle, my heart sinks; if you leave the room, I remember every little word and action, and what your voice sounded like, and what you said.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

On the passing of these last-mentioned I felt inclined to clap my hands and generally proclaim my appreciation.
— from The Red Planet by William John Locke

Since Hurst's work, L. Doncaster and G. P. Mudge have both shown that albino rats also carry in a latent condition the determinants for black or grey.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Acting in unison with a great popular movement they may destroy society, as they did at the end of the last century.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Halfe a dayes iourney from Vera Cruz, towards Mexico, is a lodging of fiue or sixe houses, called the Rinconado, which is a place, where is a great pinacle made of lime and stone, fast by a riuer side, where the Indians were wont to doe their sacrifices vnto their gods, and it is plaine and low ground betwixt that and Vera Cruz, and also subiect to sicknes:
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14 America, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

[D] A white and gold panel made in this way is very pretty and inexpensive.
— from How to Amuse Youself and Others: The American Girl's Handy Book by Lina Beard

The former had behind him the impulse of a great popular movement which was sweeping irresistibly towards wholly unexpected results; and the latter, while ostensibly trying to stem the tide, were in reality carried noisily along on its flood.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

Came there a group past mem'ry's straining eye To teach the brave how hard it was to die?
— from The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. I., No. 4, December, 1834 by Various

"As a general principle, Mrs. Reverdy, I object to houses.
— from Diana by Susan Warner