HE: Well—Rosalind, Rosalind, don't argue—kiss me again. SHE: (Quite chilly now)
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

patiēns algōris suprā quam cuiquam crēdibile est , S. C. 5, 3, a constitution capable of enduring cold beyond what anybody could believe .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

It would seem that not much consideration was needed to reach this conclusion, nor any particular care or trouble on the part of the Emperor and his marshals, nor was there any need of that special and supreme quality called genius that people are so apt to ascribe to Napoleon; yet the historians who described the event later and the men who then surrounded Napoleon, and he himself, thought otherwise.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

abiūrant, sī quid crēditumst , Pl.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

In a thousand grammes are found 96 1/2 per cent. of water, and about 2 2/3 per cent. of chloride of sodium; then, in a smaller quantity, chlorides of magnesium and of potassium, bromide of magnesium, sulphate of magnesia, sulphate and carbonate of lime.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

another speceis was much mutilated but appeared to be fibrous; the parts were brittle, hard of the size of a small quill, cilindric and as white as snow throughout, except some small parts of the hard black rind which they had not seperated in the preperation.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

'You're somewhere in the back shop across the yard, sir; and speaking quite candidly, I wish I'd never bought you of the Hospital Porter.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The ladies, in their baths, made no scruple of admitting men amongst them, and moreover made use of their serving-men to rub and anoint them: “Inguina succinctus nigri tibi servus aluta Stat, quoties calidis nuda foveris aquis.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

La vraie difficulté aujourd'hui réside dans l'application du droit d'auteur dans un contexte international face à des actes de piratages manifestes (c'est-à-dire la réutilisation à des fins commerciales de l'oeuvre d'un ou plusieurs artistes sans que ces derniers ne perçoivent quoi que ce soit).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

He had a subtle, quick, critical intelligence, a mind that was like a scale or balance.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Among his many duties, Charles Livingstone was engaged in collecting specimens of cotton, and upwards of three hundred pounds were thus obtained, at a price of less than a penny a pound, which showed that cotton of a superior quality could be raised by native labour alone, and that but for the slave trade a large amount might be raised in the country.
— from Great African Travellers: From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by William Henry Giles Kingston

Ruled by the thought: 'If I show anything, I show all,' Jon put his arm through hers and said quite casually: "Mother, let's go to Italy.
— from To Let by John Galsworthy

, p. 2, c. 3: “ Quando autem docemus, quod per operationem Spiritus Sancti regeneramur et iustificamur, non ita accipiendum est quod iustificatis et renatis nulla prorsus iniustitia substantiae ipsorum et conversationi adhaereat, sed quod Christus perfectissimâ obedientiâ suâ omnia ipsorum peccata tegat, quae quidem in ipsa natura infixa haerent.
— from Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle

Henry's ardent soul quickly caught flame; but the peril of sending an expedition to such a wild and distant country was so great, and Virginia's resources were so exhausted, that he could do little beyond lending Clark the weight of his name and influence.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Theodore Roosevelt

a stranger questioned courteously of Don Ambrogio.
— from A Golden Book of Venice by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.

The board answered that they wondered how any such question could be asked, that they knew no reason why they should give up their rights in the Isle of Kent more than any other formerly granted to Virginia by His Majesty's patent, and that I was in duty bound to maintain the rights and privileges of our colony."
— from Sir Christopher: A Romance of a Maryland Manor in 1644 by Maud Wilder Goodwin

But she had a will of her own through it all, and some quaint conceits which made her all the more adorable.
— from The Lost Continent by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

The islanders could do nothing to stop the progress of the flames, for the only water procurable was from a deep well, whence only a small quantity could be drawn up at a time, and there were no means at hand to get it from the sea, over the cliffs.
— from The Pirate of the Mediterranean: A Tale of the Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston