[319] duodecim tabulis, circumscriptio adulescentium lege Plaetoria, et sine lege iudiciis, in quibus additur ex fide bona .
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Now Siward, when he saw that a great benefit could be got at the cost of a little promise, eagerly acceded to this request.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

ordeno questo hordine et lo dete atuti li piloti et maeſtri de le ſue naui Loqual era lui de note ſempre voleua andar inanzi dele altre naui et elle ſeguitaſeno la ſua con vna facela grande de legnio che la quiamano farol Qual ſemp̃ portaua pendẽte de la popa de la Sua naue queſto ſegniale era acio de continuo lo ſeguitaſeno se faceua vno alt o fuoco con vna lanterna ho cõ vno pezo
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

A long pause ensued, which lasted until all the flowers were removed.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

alt i ſui in queſto mezo gli diſſero lo parlam to deL cap o ſop a la pace et
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

hite 1 foot 13/4 its tail long & thick white, clearly the mountain Hare of Europe, a rainy evening all wett The Soil of those Plains washes down into the flats, with the Smallest rain & disolves & mixes with the water we See back from the river high hills in a leavel plain, evidently the remains of mountains, what mud washed into the river within those few days has made it verry mudy, passed two Small Creeks on the L. S. & Camped below a 3rd on the L. S. rained all evening H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In later times the modest version in the "Works and Days" was elaborated, first by making Homer the opponent whom Hesiod conquered, while a later period exercised its ingenuity in working up the story of the contest into the elaborate form in which it still survives.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

opone a la práctica en los Estados Unidos de los métodos europeos en las transacciones bancarias con la América latina?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Here are certain characters and letters present either to our memory or senses; which characters we likewise remember to have been used as the signs of certain ideas; and these ideas were either in the minds of such as were immediately present at that action, and received the ideas directly from its existence; or they were derived from the testimony of others, and that again from another testimony, by a visible gradation, it will we arrive at those who were eyewitnesses and spectators of the event.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Sancho did as his master bade him, and putting the saddle on Rocinante and the pack-saddle on Dapple, they both mounted and at a leisurely pace entered the arcade.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Recently two books have appeared, which are largely pictorial, essentially uncritical, and strive mainly to recapture the colorfulness and ingenuity of patent-medicine advertising.
— from History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills by Robert B. Shaw

Not a little prejudice exists against a perfect type.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

A little patience, endurance, and a great deal of enthusiasm will do wonders.
— from Pictorial Photography in America 1921 by Pictorial Photographers of America

Secure, from motives of gratitude, of the devotion of the Hungarians, for whom he had so lately obtained the blessings of peace; assured by his agents of the favourable disposition of the nobles, and certain of the support of a large party, even in Austria, he now ventured to assume a bolder attitude, and, sword in hand, to discuss his grievances with the Emperor.
— from The Thirty Years War — Volume 01 by Friedrich Schiller

But Captain Scott invited him to sleep on board of the Blanchita; and he accepted after a little pressing, evidently believing that the soft cushions of the yacht made a better bed than the mats of the sampan.
— from Four Young Explorers; Or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Oliver Optic

[442] "The few thousand persons who own the National Debt, saddled upon the community by a landlord Parliament, exact 28,000,000 l. yearly from the labour of their countrymen for nothing."
— from British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by J. Ellis Barker

A little preserve?' Edward, in a sudden passion that startled her, threw the jam-dish across the room.
— from Gone to Earth by Mary Gladys Meredith Webb

A long pause ensued.
— from Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern