“Students of literature will value this work, because it offers some insight into the character, the extent, and the quality of Bohemian literature extant, and the general public will find most interest in the discussion of the life and death of Hus and the principal events of his career, the life and work of Komensky, the sketch of Dobrovsky, and the long account of the enthusiastic work of the four patriots to whom the revival of Bohemian literature in the present century is due—Jungmann, Kollar, Safarik, and Palacky.”— Boston Herald.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

But long ere this the Rutulians deemed the battle unequal, and their hearts are stirred in changeful motion; and now the more, as they discern nigher that in ill-matched strength . . . .
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

I have had constantly by me the German translation by Lipiner (ed. 2, Leipzig, 1898) and the French translation by Ostrowski (ed. 4, Paris, 1859), and am deeply indebted to them.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

Ju pli bona li estas, des pli feliĉa li estos , the better he is, the happier he will be.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Mohammed II., while besieging Constantinople in 1453, is said to have had his fleet transported by land with a view to placing it in the canal and closing the port: it is stated to have been large enough to be manned by twenty thousand select foot-soldiers.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

A bird alighted fearlessly within reach of her hand, and a squirrel whisked his bushy tail on a tree-branch almost under her nose—yet with his bright little eyes all the while on the motionless dog.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

So long as the shaking lasts, and the two parties are kept the carpet’s length apart, it is as innocent an amusement as can well be devised; but when the folding begins, and the distance between them gets gradually lessened from one half its former length to a quarter, and then to an eighth, and then to a sixteenth, and then to a thirty-second, if the carpet be long enough, it becomes dangerous.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Now those that calumniated them took a handle from such their boldness, and certain of them spake now more plainly to the king that there were treacherous designs laid against him by both his sons; and he that was son-in-law to Archelaus, relying upon his father-in-law, was preparing to fly away, in order to accuse Herod before Caesar; and when Herod's head had been long enough filled with these calumnies, he brought Antipater, whom he had by Doris, into favor again, as a defense to him against his other sons, and began all the ways he possibly could to prefer him before them.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

The last mentioned birds lay eggs as large as the goose, and bury them under the sand, through the great heat of which they hatch out.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

The subjunctive with quīn (or ut nōn ) is used after nōn possum , or nōn possum with an infinitive, usually facere , and with fierī nōn potest : as, nōn enim possum quīn exclāmem, eugē, eugē, Lȳsitelēs, πάλιν , Pl. Tri. 705, upon my word I must cry bravo, bravo, Lysiteles; encore!
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

“She has been a spoiled baby long enough; she will find earning her living a different thing from sitting with her hands folded, with Harry chained to her feet.”
— from Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time by Fanny Fern

Inland lay the most beautiful landscape ever seen; and far off were ranges of tall hills, the highest peaks of which were white with glistening snow.
— from The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation by Edward Maitland

the Little River Turnpike Company, was incorporated by legislation enacted in 1802 and 1803.
— from Green Spring Farm, Fairfax County, Virginia by Nan Netherton

Just you behave like everybody else.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

[1] I cannot but help feeling that the sudden death of the "pope" in this last chapter will strike the reader as a somewhat bold license, even for the novelist, seeing how closely it follows on that of the notary.
— from The Strange Story of Rab Ráby by Mór Jókai

They differed but little either in colour or feature from the original natives of the soil.
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish

Have straps, with buckles, fastened to the inside, near the bottom, long enough to come up and buckle over this box.
— from A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Catharine Esther Beecher

Then, my good friend, I said, do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
— from The Republic by Plato

And I said—" Mrs. Lane knew by long experience that now or never was the time to stop Mr. Hardcastle.
— from Only an Incident by Grace Denio Litchfield