Huc et Alexandri diversa feruntur ab urbe Regis, et Antiochi.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

[4450] author, quod extendi et locupletari hoc subjectum plerique postulabant, et eorum importunitate victus, animum utcunque renitentem eo adegi, ut jam sexta vice calamum in manum sumerem, scriptionique longe et a studiis et professione mea alienae, me accingerem, horas aliquas a seriis meis occupationibus interim suffuratus, easque veluti ludo cuidam ac recreationi destinans ;
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

"It should educate the mind of the future leader in war" is what Clausewitz demands from a useful theory; but he most expressly and unreservedly rejects every attempt at a method "by which definite plans for wars or campaigns are to be given out all ready made as if from a machine."
— from The Reality of War: A Companion to Clausewitz by Stewart Lygon Murray

He looked at us rather earnestly, and at last addressed Mrs. ———, and announced himself as Mr. Hinchman,—a clergyman whom she had been trying to find in Salisbury, in order to avail herself of him as a cicerone; and he had now ridden hither to meet us.
— from Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Their methods of washing immediately destroy flannels, and ultimately ruin every article of whatever texture that is handed over to their tender mercies.
— from The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the Siamese by Ernest Young

Forasmuch as the state of man hath no perpetual dwelling within the carnal body, but is separable from it at the will and pleasure of Almighty God at His time appointed, which time is always uncertain, requisite expedient and most necessary it is that every Christian man prepare and make himself ready at all times to leave the same, so that whensoever he shall be called for he be not found sleeping and unprepared: therefore the ninth day of August, a.d. 1601, and in the three and fortieth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, I Nicholas Scott, citizen and grocer of London, being of perfect mind and memory, laud and praise be therefore given to Almighty God, and intending by His grace to prepare and make myself ready to go forward in the universal journey of all flesh, do make and [Pg 196] declare this my last will and testament concerning the disposition of all and singular my goods chattels lands tenements and hereditaments whatsoever.”
— from The Romance of Wills and Testaments by Edgar Vine Hall

But it was simple enough to persuade Over that the man would be more likely to take an underground route, escaping at the favorable moment by some opening known only to his kind.
— from The Travelling Thirds by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

For the moment he felt an unreasonable resentment, either at the words or the half defiant way in which she spoke them.
— from The Missionary by George Chetwynd Griffith

But in the morning we were all up rather early, and we seemed to have awakened in a new world, rich in surprises beyond the dreams of anybody, as it says in the quotation.
— from The Wouldbegoods by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Huc et Alexandri diversa feruntur ab urbe, Regis et Antiochi.
— from View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam

"Well, they're talking at us right enough, and I don't like it."
— from Sarita, the Carlist by Arthur W. Marchmont

Powerfully aided by Grassot, Lemenil, Sainville, and Alcide Tousez, he keeps the house in an unceasing roar, even at pieces which, like the Pommes-de-terre Malades and the Enfant du Carnaval , are in themselves of very feeble merit.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various