28 Nam illud quidem absurdum est, quod quidam dicunt, parenti se aut fratri nihil detracturos sui commodi causa, aliam rationem esse civium reliquorum.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Magriyunyun ang pamilya káda Pasku, The family holds a reunion every Christmas.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

the hunters all returned except Colter, unsuccessfull.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Quattuor robustos filios, quinque filias, tantam domum, tantas clientelas Appius regebat et caecus 15 et senex; intentum enim animum tamquam arcum habebat nec languescens succumbebat senectuti.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

‘Such a rumpus everywhere!’ continued the Otter.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The document is signed "Sir John Smythe, Baronet and Royal Engineer, Canadian Poet, LL.D., and Moral Philosopher."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

magnis copiis cum sorore Cleopatra 5 bellum gerens, quam paucis ante mensibus per suos propinquos atque amicos regno expulerat; castraque Cleopatrae non longo spatio ab eius castris distabant.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

And remorseful Eric could not help being amazed, how, in his cruel, heartless selfishness, he had let that fair child go so far far astray; left him as a prey to such boys as were his companions in the lower-school.
— from Eric, or Little by Little by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

Then, he saw, she had gone north; he found her picture in a realistic Egyptian costume with bare, painted legs at an extravagant ball.
— from The Three Black Pennys: A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

When I say 'charming,' I mean of course by manners and by intelligence, and most of all by cooking; for as regards external charms (most fleeting and fallacious) hers had ceased to cause distress, for I cannot say how many years.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

The parish clerk and registrar even came at last to feel a sort of friendship for Gilliatt.
— from Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo

[865] Quod agere veretur obstinatus diabolus, intrepide agit reprobus et contumax monachus.
— from History of the Great Reformation, Volume 4 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

Well, my brother Jim and I thought we would like to make fortunes too; so we packed our boxes, donned flannel shirts, felt hats and moleskin trousers, with a revolver each carelessly slung at our sides, and started.
— from The Outspan: Tales of South Africa by Percy Fitzpatrick

We accept and hold with an unqualified assent, that the earth, considered as a phenomenon, is a globe; that all its regions see the sun by turns; that there are vast tracts on it of land and water; that there are really existing cities on definite sites, which go by the names of London, Paris, Florence, and Madrid.
— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman

Dedicated to the American Missionary Association, by the Author, REV. ELI CORWIN, D.D., JACKSONVILLE, ILLS. Strike , valiant warrior, strike!
— from The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 09, September, 1879 by Various

Brewster purchased from time to time the best books brought out in England on subjects which interested him, until it was really a rich exegetical collection, and may possibly have been used as a circulating one.
— from Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle