Poëtæ Desinite: en fati certus, sibi voce canorâ Inferias præmisit olor, cum Carolus Albâ (Vltima volventem et
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Elk, &c. at 3 P.M. Capt Clark arrived very sick with a high fever on him and much fatiegued and exhausted.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Cum M. Crassus exercitum Brundisii imponeret, quidam in portu, caricas Cauno advectas vendens, Cauneas! clamitabat.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

They were on the upper floor, and from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

It is, of the one part, A humid exhalation, which we call Material liquida, or the unctuous water; On the other part, a certain crass and vicious Portion of earth; both which, concorporate, Do make the elementary matter of gold; Which is not yet propria materia, But common to all metals and all stones; For, where it is forsaken of that moisture, And hath more driness, it becomes a stone: Where it retains more of the humid fatness, It turns to sulphur, or to quicksilver, Who are the parents of all other metals.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

The ideal of him is, that he too be what we can call a voice from the unseen Heaven; interpreting, even as the Prophet did, and in a more familiar manner unfolding the same to men.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

She had apparently no time to spare, for, taking out the little instrument from its place of concealment, she seated herself on a couch from which she could command a view of the approach from the house.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

These flat disks on their heads consist of crosswise plates of movable cartilage, between which the animals can create a vacuum, enabling them to stick to objects like suction cups.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

When the cloud had come to that part of the field where he was, it stopped, and shadowed the sun from him; and out of the cloud came a Voice, which asked him which of these three diseases he would choose to die of—fever, dropsy, or consumption.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

At any rate, it is only Practical Wisdom which we commonly class among Virtues, as distinguished from purely intellectual excellences.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

From the mountain path which led to Yang Hu’s cave came a voice, like an expressly devised reply to this speech.
— from The Wallet of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah

Then round the corner came a vagrom man, wheeling flowers in a barrow.
— from Something New by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

The pieces decorated with heavy Celadon colours are very often on a porcellaneous stone ware, which is generally accepted as marking the evolution period between pottery and the hard porcelain.
— from Chats on Oriental China by J. F. Blacker

It related to Will Blanchard, and upon Clement dropping a monosyllabic reply his companion continued: “A very handsome fellow, too.
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

Slawntehus or Chimakane Creek and valley, i. 399 .
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

And as you passe the riuer Euphrates from Bir to Feluchia, there are certein places which you must passe by, where you pay custome certaine medines vpon a bale, which custome is belonging to the sonne of Aborise king of the Arabians and of the desert, who hath certaine cities and villages on the riuer Euphrates.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt

6d.—View of Caerphilli Castle and Vale.
— from The Crystal Palace: Its Architectural History and Constructive Marvels by Fowler, Charles, Jr.

After much unsuccessful searching and calling, he finally saw her white face and red hair shimmering from out the green shadows, in a little cleared spot on the gentle slope of the grove, from which she could command a view of the entrance of the park.
— from In Paradise: A Novel. Vol. II by Paul Heyse

For this manufacture of opinion, we consciously created a very elaborate machinery, both of propaganda and of control of news.
— from The Fruits of Victory A Sequel to The Great Illusion by Norman Angell

Thus, also, certain motions in certain circumstances are very beautiful or sublime, and in others very displeasing.
— from Common Sense Applied to Religion; Or, The Bible and the People by Catharine Esther Beecher