B. Sulla lays down his Dictatorship, 79 B.C. Nec minoris impotentiae voces propalam edebat, ut Titus Ampius scribit, ‘Nihil esse rempublicam, 10 appellationem modo sine corpore ac specie.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Numerous parties, therefore, were seen ascending and descending the hill on which the castle was situated; and when the King and his attendants entered the open and unguarded gates of the external barrier, the space within presented a scene not easily reconciled with the cause of the assemblage.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Unfortunately, though, he would still have to make it clear to K. that the first documents submitted are sometimes not even read by the court.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

and she never even rendered down the fat I told her and now shes going such as she was on account of her paralysed husband getting worse theres always something wrong with them disease or they have to go under an operation or if its not that its drink
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Aglaium Areadum pauperrimum Apollo praetulit, qui terminos agri sui nunquam excesserat, rure suo contentus.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Any slight necessary exterior repairs should then be made—loose bits of cloth or paper at worn corners or along the edges of the boards pasted down, and any tears at the top of back above the head-band reenforced from the inside with strips of cloth or paper.
— from Book Repair and Restoration: A Manual of Practical Suggestions for Bibliophiles by Mitchell S. (Mitchell Starrett) Buck

I am elderly and shall never entirely recover from my accident, but the farm is large, and some day it will all be thine.
— from A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda M. Douglas

And still no English rising for the rightful King!
— from Foes by Mary Johnston

A small, neat, economical room, entirely suitable for a single gentleman.
— from Queed: A Novel by Henry Sydnor Harrison

She turned away from the window with a strange new excitement rushing over her.
— from The Lead of Honour by Norval Richardson

In trying to achieve success No envy racks our heart, For all we know and all we guess
— from The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Arthur Sullivan

The government stepped in toward the end of 1996, propping up the Bolivar by using a stable nominal exchange rate as a restraint on inflation-which fell in 1997 to 38%.
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

He had, at this time, now that the Belleisle Adventure is left in such a state, no essential reason to wish the French ruined,—nor probably did he; but only stated both chances, as in the way of unguarded soliloquy; and was willing to leave Neipperg a sweet morsel to chew.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13 by Thomas Carlyle

In trying to achieve success No envy racks our heart, And all the knowledge we possess, We mutually impart.
— from The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Arthur Sullivan