Out of this root of envy [1711] spring those feral branches of faction, hatred, livor, emulation, which cause the like grievances, and are, serrae animae , the saws of the soul, [1712] consternationis pleni affectus , affections full of desperate amazement; or as Cyprian describes emulation, it is [1713] a moth of the soul, a consumption, to make another man's happiness his misery, to torture, crucify, and execute himself, to eat his own heart.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

He knows everything, and he can do everything; I will bet, if he chose to turn mason, he could make a house as easily as a cage."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

↑ 15 Antara mani , explained as meaning between noon and the hour of prayer, called dlohor (early in the afternoon), that being the time of day when the Spectre Huntsman most commonly strikes people with sickness.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

--This variety of hernia occurs not in consequence of any congenital defect, except inasmuch as the natural weakness of the inguinal wall opposite the internal ring may be attributed to this cause.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Sacrīs factīs Caesar dē Capitōliō dēscendit et in forō mīitibus suīs honōrēs mīlitārīs dedit eīsque pecūniam ex bellī praedā distribuit.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

If any one studies the Augustinian theology in the books “ De Civitate Dei ” (especially in the Fourteenth Book)
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

But she said she “was not afraid of their being thought so; that they had all, like good children, done everything in their power to induce her to live, and to abide with them; and if I should consent I know they would love and honor me, but my duties to them have now ended.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

If you will not believe me, hear a brief of it, as it was not many years since publicly preached at Paul's cross, [2029] by a grave minister then, and now a reverend bishop of this land: We that are bred up in learning, and destinated by our parents to this end, we suffer our childhood in the grammar-school, which Austin calls magnam tyrannidem, et grave malum , and compares it to the torments of martyrdom; when we come to the university, if we live of the college allowance, as Phalaris objected to the Leontines, παν τῶν ἐνδεῖς πλὴν λιμοὺ καὶ φόβου , needy of all things but hunger and fear, or if we be maintained but partly by our parents' cost, do expend in unnecessary maintenance, books and degrees, before we come to any perfection, five hundred pounds, or a thousand marks.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Qui cum senatui priscum restituere cuperet decus et indicia ab equitibus ad 5 eum transferre ordinem . . .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Nor can it be said that Crown Colonies differ essentially in this matter from self-governing dominions.
— from The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell

But six feet four inches is not considered dwarfish, even in Patagonia.
— from Barney Blake, the Boy Privateer; or, The Cruise of the Queer Fish by Herrick Johnstone

It was nothing but a grocery bill, but it was made out to—Godfrey Chester, Dr. Evidently it was for goods supplied to the inn.
— from A Bicycle of Cathay by Frank Richard Stockton

The trial took place in the hall of the Cuartel de España in the presence of a large audience among whom were his sister and the woman with whom he had been living in Dapitan.
— from The Katipunan; or, The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune by Francis St. Clair

The wisest way was to keep silent and continue digging, even if the operation did kill ancient landmarks that one could see—from across the river, for instance.
— from Guns of the Gods: A Story of Yasmini's Youth by Talbot Mundy

In many cases, the water which escaped from the basins provided for it, ran rippling along the road, and covering the whole surface for a considerable distance, ere it buried itself among the long grass that skirted the plantation.
— from The City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Miss (Julia) Pardoe

The work they took in hand has been followed persistently and with certain definite ends in view.
— from Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings by William F. (William Frederick) Denning

Such contacts, fixing national attitude and policy, ordinarily occur on three main lines: governmental, determined by officials in authority in either State whose duty it is to secure the greatest advantage in power and prosperity for the State; commercial, resulting, primarily, from the interchange of goods and the business opportunities of either nation in the other's territory, or from their rivalry in foreign trade; idealistic, the result of comparative development especially in those ideals of political structure which determine the nature of the State and the form of its government.
— from Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams

Wherever one wanders one meets with these charming dwellings, especially in West Street and Pump Street; the oldest house in Rye being at the corner of the churchyard.
— from Vanishing England by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield