Caput apri defero, etc., etc., etc.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

First, because they have wonderful, luxurious houses, filled with amusing people; and visiting them is a period crammed with continuous and delightful experience, even though such a visit has little that suggests any personal intercourse or friendship with one's hostess.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

“And the deportations and executions, what of them?” “Well, to clean the country and destroy every evil seed.” “Get out!
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

In modern times the history of the devil and the Vice as dramatic figures has been thoroughly [xxii] investigated, the latest works being those of Dr. L.W. Cushman and Dr. E. Eckhardt, at whose hands the subject has received exhaustive treatment.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

In a word, we must found a form of government holding universal sway, which should be diffused over the whole world without destroying the bonds of citizenship, and beside which all other governments can continue in their customary course and do everything except what impedes the great aim of our order, which is to obtain for virtue the victory over vice.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"She is indebted to her insular position for the supreme advantage of being able to exercise her influence in Europe without allowing her forces to be tied to the continent; European countries were bound by their own conflicts and differences, enabling England to exert her influence upon them without active participation.
— from What Germany Thinks Or, The War as Germans see it by Thomas F. A. Smith

And from one to another the infection spread, as the convulsions and delusions excited envy and admiration, and a straining of the mind after something of like sort.
— from Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg by of Magdeburg Mechthild

Caput apri defero," Etc. etc. etc.
— from Old Christmas: from the Sketch Book of Washington Irving by Washington Irving

It is, moreover, useless for the guidance of life; for all that is thus ingeniously put into the Levitical ordinances is found more clearly and directly expressed elsewhere.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Deuteronomy by Andrew Harper

Reports of concerts and domestic entertainments, etc., are given.
— from Ocean Steamships A popular account of their construction, development, management and appliances by A. E. (Albert Edward) Seaton

I am like Kaspar Hauser, of whom you may have heard; he was brought up in a solitary dark cell, and denied everything, except bare necessaries; when he escaped and came among men, he had no notion how to behave, and was lost in amazement to find they were not all gaolers.
— from The Pennycomequicks, Volume 2 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Perhaps, too, Laurie Fernald liked and respected him the more that he had duties to perform and therefore was not always free to come at his beck and call as did everybody else.
— from Ted and the Telephone by Sara Ware Bassett