Volā ad multās terrās et dā auxilium.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Dædalus constructed for the king the world-renowned labyrinth, which was an immense building, full of intricate passages, intersecting each other in such a manner, that even Dædalus himself is said, upon one occasion, to have nearly lost his way in it; and it was in this building the king placed the Minotaur, a monster with the head and shoulders of a bull and the body of a man.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

No illusion could be possible, and a fire had actually met their eyes during the night of the 19th of October.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Well is it with those whose labours deserve all praise, if, in place of being praised and admired, they do not thereby incur blame and many times even disgrace.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

If we have not known how to live, ‘tis injustice to teach us how to die, and make the end difform from all the rest; if we have known how to live firmly and quietly, we shall know how to die so too.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

What with a cooling drink adapted to the weather, but not so weak as cool; and what with a rarer tobacco than was to be bought in those parts; Tom was soon in a highly free and easy state at his end of the sofa, and more than ever disposed to admire his new friend at the other end.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Nobis quoniam prima animi ingeniique negata sors est , secundam ac mediam teneamus et, dum imperare discimus, parere prudenti in animum inducamus.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Amber and Marwar; this expression denotes the letter to have been written on intermarriage with the Rana’s house, and shows her sense of such honour.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

At that an almost intolerable gladness and radiance rushed in upon me, and I saw the circle shining white and bright, and the rod black and shining, and many things else distinct and clear.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

There was a muleteer to every donkey and a dozen volunteers beside, and they banged the donkeys with their goad sticks, and pricked them with their spikes, and shouted something that sounded like “Sekki-yah!”
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

[15] The following extract from a memoir of Lord Wynford, written evidently by a lawyer, manifests, in rather an amusing manner, the esprit de corps of the profession, and shows how the excitement of the contest between the advocates effaces the dull interest of what are called the merits of the case.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

Clariana becomes [Pg 233] infatuated with her husband's friend Hippolito; and, even after the guilty lovers have been permitted to go unpunished by the husband, her passion continues until her jealousy at her lover's approaching marriage to Eubella drives her to his murder.
— from Tragedy by Ashley Horace Thorndike

He answered, 'That is so, my soul; and the penalty is mine, by which I am made to employ deceits ere I strike.'
— from The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 4 by George Meredith

Love is a sanctifier; 'tis a moon, Turning each dusk to silver.
— from Poems Third Edition by Alexander Smith

Hovering between the desire and the fear of granting the promised reforms, urged on one side to resistance, on the other to submission, and more than ever destitute of all political acumen and all will power, the king went to Paris, and, bending before the revolt, approved of the assassination of his most faithful servants—and took, on that fatal day, his first step towards the scaffold!
— from Legends of the Bastille by Frantz Funck-Brentano

At all events, there is no possibility of going backward now; and more than ever do I desire to see Constantine obtain the sovereignty of the East.
— from Arius the Libyan: A Romance of the Primitive Church by Nathan C. (Nathan Chapman) Kouns

A minutes truce ensued, during which the Auras counted their numbers.
— from The Pearl of the Andes: A Tale of Love and Adventure by Gustave Aimard

Bivouacked and marched to Escalos de Cima.
— from A British Rifle Man The Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade, During the Peninsular War and the Campaign of Waterloo by George Simmons

No coyotes annoyed him or his command, but not a mouthful to eat did they find until they [Pg 115] came out where they could see the ancient ruins.
— from Two Arrows: A Story of Red and White by William O. Stoddard

It has traditions of glory which inspire and maintain that esprit de corps so valuable in the hour of peril—so animating in the crisis of battle.
— from A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863 by T. (Timothy) Gowing