Serafina taking the advantage of this general satisfaction, when the heart, softened into complacency, deposits every violent thought: “I must now,” said she, “try my interest with Renaldo.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Whereby come controversies, duels, embitterment, vain jargon; the hastening forward, the augmenting and intensifying of whatever new explosions lie in store for us.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

He had every colour on his palette, and such skill was in his fingers that he could depict every variety of light and shade.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Deaths of Three Great Men, 183 B.C. Hannibal, postquam est nuntiatum milites regios in vestibulo esse, postico fugere conatus, ut id quoque occursu militum obsaeptum sensit et omnia circa clausa custodiis dispositis esse, venenum, quod multo ante praeparatum ad tales habebat casus, 5 poposcit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Mientras le renovaba la comida, dijo en voz muy baja, con ademán pensativo: —¡Qué despegado es!
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

y dulzura,—si en el curso de estas vanas disputas he dicho algo que pueda ofender al Sr. D. José, le ruego que me perdone.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

De virginali habitu: dum ornari cultius, dum evagari virgines volunt, desinunt esse virgines.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Even now in Celtic districts extreme veneration exists for trees growing in cemeteries and in other places.
— from The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. (John Arnott) MacCulloch

escriz Que sa mère por lui aveir Vout au due doner grant aveir; Mais n'en vout unques dener prendre Ne por riens nule le cors rendre; Mais à un Guillaume Malet, Qui n'ert tosel pas ne vaslet, Mais chevaliers dura e vaillanz.
— from Master Wace, His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest From the Roman De Rou by Wace

O'er all his hundred hoops the languor crawls, Each curve develops, every volute falls, His broad back flattens as he spreads the plain, And sleep consigns him to his lifeless reign.
— from The Columbiad: A Poem by Joel Barlow

HINTS FOR HOME TREATMENT Indigestion; Constipation; Diarrhea; Enemas; Vaginal Douche; Baths; Headache; Fainting; Hemorrhage.
— from The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; A Study in Hygiene by Anna M. (Anna Mary) Galbraith

Has inter mediamque duæ mortalibus ægris Munere concessæ Divûm, et via secta per ambas, Obliquus qua se signorum verteret ordo.— Georg. I. 233.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Temperature of Merida, according to observations taken by the cura Don Eusebio Villamil, for one year, beginning on the 1st of September, 1841, and ending on the 31st of August, 1842.
— from Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens

Illustrated: Hauser y Menet, Los Tapices de la Corona de España , vol.
— from Catalogue of the Retrospective Loan Exhibition of European Tapestries by San Francisco Museum of Art