Tagsingku písus ang kúbir sa parti, The party will be five pesos per person.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But force prevailed [Pg 8] more than the father's will or the respect due to seniority: for Amulius, having expelled his brother, seizes the kingdom; he adds crime to crime, murders his brother's male issue; and under pretence of doing his brother's daughter, Rhea Sylvia, honour, having made her a vestal virgin, by obliging her to perpetual virginity he deprives her of all hopes of issue.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

2. Natural, in things without life, as love and hatred of elements; and with life, as vegetable, vine and elm, sympathy, antipathy, &c. Sensible, as of beasts, for pleasure, preservation of kind, mutual agreement, custom, bringing up together, &c. or Rational Simple, which hath three objects as M. 2.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[ 459 ] 1 The Marianas, or Ladrone Islands, were used as a place of banishment for political prisoners.—TR.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

As is manifestly apparent in pease, beans, fasels, pomegranates, peaches, cottons, gourds, pumpions, melons, corn, lemons, almonds, walnuts, filberts, and chestnuts; as likewise in all plants, slips, or sets whatsoever, wherein it is plainly and evidently seen, that the sperm and semence is more closely veiled, overshadowed, corroborated, and thoroughly harnessed, than any other part, portion, or parcel of the whole.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

He likewise caused to cover therewith the sterns, stems, cook-rooms or laps, hatches, decks, courses, bends, and walls of his carricks, ships, galleons, galleys, brigantines, foists, frigates, crears, barques, floats, pinks, pinnaces, hoys, ketches, capers, and other vessels of his Thalassian arsenal; were it not that the wood or timber of the larch-tree, being put within a large and ample furnace full of huge vehemently flaming fire proceeding from the fuel of other sorts and kinds of wood, cometh at last to be corrupted, consumed, dissipated, and destroyed, as are stones in a lime-kiln.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Already there is talk of an enterprising agent proceeding to Capetown with the object of retaining the necessary artistes, who may be expected here as soon as the railway communication is open to the general public; but for present purposes there is sufficient talent amongst our soldiers and sailors and the townspeople to tide over the emergency.
— from War's Brighter Side The Story of The Friend Newspaper Edited by the Correspondents with Lord Roberts's Forces, March-April, 1900 by Julian Ralph

The original document I have not seen, but from passages printed by the Sussex Archæological Society I borrow a few extracts for the light they throw on old customs and social life.
— from Highways and Byways in Sussex by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

Address WILLIAM BALDWIN & CO., Publishers and Proprieters 424 Broome Street, New York J. NICKINSON begs to announce to the friends of "PUNCHINELLO," residing in the country, that, for their convenience, he has made arrangements by which, on receipt of the price of ANY STANDARD BOOK PUBLISHED, the same will be forwarded, postage paid.
— from Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 31, October 29, 1870 by Various

Hiawatha was not the first Indian to use the canoe birch for practical purposes.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work by Mary Rogers Miller

If he did not write other books, it was not, so far as we can see, because, as has been charged, he lacked constructive capacity, but rather because, when he resorted to the pen, he did it not for literary celebrity, but for practical purposes of the hour, best subserved by brief essays or papers.
— from Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

An artist once discovered a valuable possibility in this street. Suppose a collector with a bill for paint, paper and canvas should, in traversing this route, suddenly meet himself coming back, without a cent having been paid on account!"
— from Greenwich Village by Anna Alice Chapin

Indeed, my heart is divided within me while I ruminate it in my mind, whether having snatched him up from out of the lamentable battle, I should not at once place him alive in the fertile land of his own Lycia, or whether I should now destroy him by the hands of the son of Menoetius!' To which Juno answers—'Dost thou mean to rescue from death a mortal man, long since destined by fate (palai pepromenon)?
— from The Iliad by Homer