Horresco referens —I shudder as I relate. Virg.
— 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.

[Footnote] To these I shall add another, in respect of the carotid arteries--viz., that I have found them complicated with an osseous shaft of bone, taking place of the stylo-hyoid ligament, a condition which obtains permanently in the ruminant and other classes of mammals.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

After quoting her letter, he adds: ‘I replied to her, accepting the correspondence that she offered me, and telling her briefly all my vicissitudes.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

At another, I resolved to dig a grave for it in the floor of the cellar.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Accordingly, I rose early next morning before daybreak, got breakfast with the early railroad-passengers, and about sunrise was at the gate of General Fremont's headquarters.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

20 Quam prîmum autem aliam nâvem condûcam ut iter ad Italiam reliquum cônficiam et domum 21 ad meôs cârôs revertar.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

I took, as I remember now, an ace of hearts off the table and threw it into the air.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

The letter was addressed to Miss Polly Harrington, Beldingsville, Vermont; and it read as follows: “Dear Madam:—I regret to inform you that the Rev. John Whittier died two weeks ago, leaving one child, a girl eleven years old.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Pap was pretty careful not to leave a knife or anything in the cabin when he was away; I reckon I had hunted the place over as much as a hundred times; well, I was most all the time at it, because it was about the only way to put in the time.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

[pg 245] armistice and the additional terms imposed at its renewals since.
— from And the Kaiser abdicates: The German Revolution November 1918-August 1919 by S. Miles (Stephen Miles) Bouton

It was broiling hot, and I remember I was thirsty.
— from Memoirs of Mistral by Frédéric Mistral

They then asked me how it was that the Parmese ambassador knew nothing about me, and I replied that I had never been presented to him.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 26: Spain by Giacomo Casanova

Its marble hair was done in the bold lines of a helmet, on its lips the chisel had left a faint smile, and it resembled Miss Moorsom.
— from Within the Tides: Tales by Joseph Conrad

So long as I remained a bachelor the relationship had not troubled me, but now that I was married I began to consider with some alarm its power to affect my welfare.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

The same lady succeeded equally well in similar circumstances in hatching late eggs; she plunged them for some minutes in water heated to the degree of incubation, and immediately replaced them under the mother; in a short time she enjoyed the pleasure of seeing the little ones make their appearance.
— from The Natural History of Cage Birds Their Management, Habits, Food, Diseases, Treatment, Breeding, and the Methods of Catching Them. by Johann Matthäus Bechstein

If it be considered as it relates to rum, he was certain the consumers of foreign rum paid a larger proportion of revenue into the Treasury than the consumers of country rum; they paid more than equal distributive justice required; if it was considered as it respected molasses, there would appear no injustice.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

And, in relation to the community, if the corporation, stripped of its banking powers, were to fulfil bona fide the duty of closing its affairs, your committee cannot see that any material advantage would be derived.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

571 Nafzawi, like Vatsyayana, from whose book he sometimes borrows, is credited with having been an intensely religious man, but his book abounds in erotic tales seasoned to such an extent as would have put to the blush even the not very sensitive "Tincker of Turvey."
— from The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright

Wherefore charity, above all, implies relation to the First Principle, and consequently, in charity above all, we find an order in reference to the First Principle.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint