435-8: Aegidaque horriferam, turbatae Palladis arma, Certatim squamis serpentum auroque polibant, Connexosque angues ipsamque in pectore divae Gorgona, desecto vertentem lumina collo.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

3 Our picture is probably from a protecting charm, and evidently by the god’s believers.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

In the Rue de Seine he met Planchet, who had stopped before the house of a pastry cook, and was contemplating with ecstasy a cake of the most appetizing appearance.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

After that, I sat musing on Lady Ashby’s past and present condition; and on what little information I had obtained respecting Mr. Weston, and the small chance there was of ever seeing or hearing anything more of him throughout my quiet, drab-colour life: which, henceforth, seemed to offer no alternative between positive rainy days, and days of dull grey clouds without downfall.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

“'Some time I hope folks will quit handing all the credit to a lot of moth-eaten, mildewed, out-of-date, old, European dumps, and give proper credit to the famous Zenith spirit, that clean fighting determination to win Success that has made the little old Zip City celebrated in every land and clime, wherever condensed milk and pasteboard cartons are known!
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

This is a purely commercial analysis of purely commercial success.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Thus possession alone, and first possession, is supposed to convey property, where no body else has any preceding claim and pretension.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

Whoever shall ask a man, “What interest have you in this siege?” —“The interest of example,” he will say, “and of the common obedience to my prince: I pretend to no profit by it; and for glory, I know how small a part can affect a private man such as I: I have here neither passion nor quarrel.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

In the first place, he is the son of a wealthy and wise father, Anthemion, who acquired his wealth, not by accident or gift, like Ismenias the Theban (who has recently made himself as rich as Polycrates), but by his own skill and industry, and who is a well-conditioned, modest man, not insolent, or overbearing, or annoying; moreover, this son of his has received a good education, as the Athenian people certainly appear to think, for they choose him to fill the highest offices.
— from Meno by Plato

She gave Kathleen a cold peck on the cheek and peered curiously at her companion.
— from Kathleen's Diamonds; or, She Loved a Handsome Actor by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

They had declined to accept the jurisdiction of the Assembly as at present constituted, and the Moderator now put the question to the vote.
— from Montrose by Mowbray Morris

Earlier in the year the massacre of a peaceable congregation at Wassy, near Joinville, had excited the fury of the Huguenots, and a fierce struggle was being waged on the frontiers of Lorraine.
— from Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590 by Julia Cartwright

When, for instance, I am conscious of the sensation of seeing an inkstand before me, no one seeing reason to doubt my assertion to that effect, all presumably competent testimony on the subject must needs be concentrated in myself; and the fact of my seeing an inkstand, [ 55 ] though for my own conviction verified in a way independent of any such argument, is, for the conviction of others, only pronounceable as true, because all presumably competent authority is of one mind in alleging its truth.
— from Essays in Rationalism by Charles Robert Newman

When Bret Harte was only eleven years old he wrote a poem called Autumnal Musings which he sent surreptitiously to the “New York Sunday Atlas,” and the poem was published in the next issue.
— from The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin

Tom could break in or out of any place, climb anything, and jump—the neighbours all said—“the d——l’s height;” I don’t know how tall that gentleman is at Dundee, but he must be over twenty feet, for Tom could do that easily, and alight on his pumps.
— from Cats: Their Points and Characteristics With Curiosities of Cat Life, and a Chapter on Feline Ailments by Gordon Stables

There is a practically complete absence of set pieces, the work running its course uninterruptedly without a break.
— from Masters of French Music by Arthur Hervey

Fill a papeh cup an' carry it back to him.
— from Lady Luck by Hugh Wiley

And so, while the sun arose and set; while the harvests were grown and garnered; while the pure and fadeless sea lapsed along the fertile garden of the Baucalis farm, and new lives came upon the stage of human action, and older ones were gathered into the rest appointed for all the living, peace and plenty, charity and love, purity and truth, blessed the dwellers at the stone cottage by the sea-side.
— from Arius the Libyan: A Romance of the Primitive Church by Nathan C. (Nathan Chapman) Kouns

That proviso is as follows: ‘ And provided further , that, in the trial of any criminal cause, the fact that a person called as a juror has formed an opinion or impression, based upon rumor or upon newspaper statements [616] (about the truth of which he has expressed no opinion), shall not disqualify him to serve as a juror in such case, if he shall, upon oath, state that he believes he can fairly and impartially render a verdict therein in accordance with the law and the evidence, and the court shall be satisfied of the truth of such statement.’
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack