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— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Morbi chronici devinci citra metallica vix possint, aut ubi sanguis corrumpitur.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But the cares of the Marchioness did not stop here; for, disappearing for an instant and presently returning with a basin of fair water, she laved his face and hands, brushed his hair, and in short made him as spruce and smart as anybody under such circumstances could be made; and all this, in as brisk and business-like a manner, as if he were a very little boy, and she his grown-up nurse.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

"Are you a United States citizen, ma'am?"
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

He came to the river, where the curlews floated in the air uttering shrill cries and the ducks quacked.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

How they all think alike under similar circumstances, and never differ!
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

You will allow me, dear reader, to suppose that you possess a simple and natural knowledge, namely, that admiration under such circumstances is inseparable from another kind of approbation; luckily, I found the young Morphi disposed to let me do all I pleased, except the only thing for which I did not care!
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

When, later in the year, a United States commissioner was sent to Cartagena to reclaim American vessels so seized, the Spanish viceroy gave him to understand that he did not pretend to be acquainted with the law of nations.
— from The United States and Latin America by John Holladay Latané

When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess.
— from Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson, with a Selection from his Essay on Johnson by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

If so, was there also an unknown Southern Continent?
— from Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. by C. Raymond (Charles Raymond) Beazley

[43] Je suis arrivé à l'âge où je suis, à travers bien des évènements différents, mais avec une seule cause, celle de la liberté régulière.—
— from A Lecture on the Study of History by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron