Clemency is a royal virtue; employ it, and you will find that you derive advantage therein.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Abducunt eos a recta via, et viam iter facientibus intercludunt.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

re he amazato ogni famiglia he hobligata de dare aL re vna et due figliole
— 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

The ‘ainos,’ as its name denotes, is an admonition, or rather a reproof veiled, either from fear of an excess of frankness, or from a love of fun and jest, beneath the fiction of an occurrence happening among beasts; and wherever we have any ancient and authentic account of the Aesopian fables, we find it to be the same."
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

Passing through the City Hall Park, he had noticed a group of men, in the centre of which were half a dozen, with flushed faces and raised voices, earnestly carrying on a discussion.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Bonaparte himself, not trusting to his generals, moved with all the Guards to the field of battle, afraid of letting a ready victim escape, and Bagratión’s four thousand men merrily lighted campfires, dried and warmed themselves, cooked their porridge for the first time for three days, and not one of them knew or imagined what was in store for him.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Auslosung lottery drawing Verlust loss Verlust bei der Übermittlung loss in transit Verlust bei Übermittlung von Briefen loss in transit of any letters Verlust bei Übermittlung von Dokumenten loss in transit of any documents Verlust bei Übermittlung von Nachrichten loss in transit of any messages Verlust der Kundschaft loss of custom Verlust der Ladung loss of cargo Verlust des Einkommens loss of income Verlust eines Anspruchs forfeiture of a right Verlust eines Schiffes loss of a ship Verlust von Barmitteln loss of cash Verlustabzug loss deduction Verlustanzeige advice of loss Verlustanzeige notice of loss Verluste erleiden suffer losses Verluste klein halten to minimize losses Verlustgeschäft losing bargain Verlustmeldung notice of loss Verlustquellenberechnung calculation of losses Verlustzeit deas time Verlustzeit down-time
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

The circumstances to which these pictorial satires refer are traceable to the national ferment succeeding the suppression of the Rebellion, when, as recapitulated, various eccentricities were committed by those who favoured the Pretender’s cause; among others, certain Staffordshire sportsmen made themselves conspicuous.
— from A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria by Joseph Grego

Without waiting to investigate the nature, appearance, or structure of the precious mass, Nerado ordered power into the converters and drove an enormous softening field of force upon the object--a force of such a nature that it would condense the metallic iron into an allotropic modification of much smaller bulk; a red, viscous, extremely dense and heavy liquid which could be stored conveniently in his tanks.
— from Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

de Staël, d'Haussonvìlle, Guizot, were most interesting and recherchés, very exclusive and very serious, but a centre for all political and literary talk.
— from Chateau and Country Life in France by Mary King Waddington

Upon his mother's death at Richmond, Virginia, Edgar was adopted by a wealthy Scotch merchant, John Allan.
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe Including Essays on Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

He then went to bed and rose very early the following morning, before anyone was about, and found that the story was quite true, and saw the tracks of the tiger.
— from Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore With chapters on coffee planting in Coorg, the Mysore representative assembly, the Indian congress, caste and the Indian silver question, being the 38 years' experiences of a Mysore planter by Robert H. (Robert Henry) Elliot

Poscia ch'io v'ebbi alcun riconosciuto, vidi e conobbi l'ombra di colui che fece per viltade il gran rifiuto.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

"Indeed I am!" replied Veronica emphatically.
— from The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit; Or, Over the Top with the Winnebagos by Hildegard G. Frey