8 Id imperâtor cum animadvertisset, Pûblium adulêscentem cum equitâtû mîsit quî labôrantibus 9 auxilium daret.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Augusta llamáronla los antiguos, augustísima la llamo yo ahora, porque ahora, como entonces, la hidalguía, 20 la generosidad, el valor, la nobleza, son patrimonio de ella...
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Were we not first perswaded, that our perceptions are our only objects, and continue to exist even when they no longer make their appearance to the senses, we should never be led to think, that our perceptions and objects are different, and that our objects alone preserve a continued existence.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

I will only add, to what I have already written of my perseverance at this time of my life, and of a patient and continuous energy which then began to be matured within me, and which I know to be the strong part of my character, if it have any strength at all, that there, on looking back, I find the source of my success.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

He and Rawdon are playing at cards every night, and you know he is very poor, and Rawdon will win every shilling from him if he does not take care.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

But one and the same tall plant may, in different places or soils, have different species of lowly plants as companions; the companion plants of high beech forests depend, for instance, upon climate and upon the nature of the forest soil; Pinus nigra, according to von Beck, can maintain under it in the different parts of Europe a Pontic, a central European, or a Baltic vegetation.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

From the Gulf of Finland to the Eastern Ocean, Russia now assumes the form of a powerful and civilized empire.
— 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

Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist; if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is certainly the case; and if any variation or modification in the organ be ever useful to an animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

It is, then, no wonder if a contrary state stupefy and clog my spirit, and produce a contrary effect: “Ad nullum consurgit opus, cum corpore languet;”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I have already inveighed against the custom of confining girls to their needle, and shutting them out from all political and civil employments; for by thus narrowing their minds they are rendered unfit to fulfil the peculiar duties which nature has assigned them.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

It smashed windows; it hurled stone ginger-beer bottles into the motor cars of Cabinet Ministers; it poured treacle into pillar-boxes; it invaded the House of Commons by the water-way, in barges, from which women, armed with megaphones, demanded the vote from infamous legislators drinking tea on the Terrace; it went up in balloons and showered down propaganda on the City; now and then, just to show what violence it could accomplish if it liked, it burned down a house or two in a pure and consecrated ecstasy of Feminism.
— from The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair

It may be used to advantage with evergreens, and produces a charming effect when planted by itself in clumps.
— from Studies of Trees by Jacob Joshua Levison

Think of the hardships of those early pioneers who blazed their way through dark continents, and with a determination to win, they pressed their way through and with faith and prayer and continuous efforts, they saw the fruit of their labor in others finding Christ as their personal Savior.
— from The Palm Tree Blessing by William Edward Shepard

And now a protracted and careful examination of the wound, coupled with much questioning of his patient, convinced Stukely that his friend Dick had sustained a very serious injury to the head which had so far affected the brain that it would be several days at least before the young man could possibly be moved!
— from Two Gallant Sons of Devon: A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess by Harry Collingwood

And whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

5 16 It is interesting to notice how even at this date footmen and infantry formed an important part of the British army, which, after advancing almost to the gates of Paris, was compelled to fall back to the coast for many reasons, among which want of supplies predominated, and finally, after a brilliant skirmish in crossing the Somme, took up a position at Crecy-en-Ponthieu—whence, even if defeated, it had a secure retreat through Flanders—there to give battle to the French.
— from The Story of the British Army by Charles Cooper King

[Pg 21] Picture writing is a primitive and clumsy expedient.
— from The Sounds of Spoken English: A Manual of Ear Training for English Students (4th edition) by Walter Ripman

The butler fay comes and picks a cluster every evening, and carries it on a lily-leaf platter to the queen as she sits supping on honey-cakes and dew under the damask rose-bush."
— from Queen Hildegarde by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

These treasures, laid out on shelves with glass doors (the drawers beneath containing the insects), occupied the whole of the first floor of the doctor’s house, and produced a certain effect through the oddity of the names on the tickets, the magic effect of the colors, and the gathering together of so many things which no one pays the slightest attention to when seen in nature, though much admired under glass.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac