M. de Legal then sent four companies of dragoons to quarter themselves in the college, with this sarcastic message, "To convince you of the necessity of paying the money, I have sent four substantial arguments to your college, drawn from the system of military logic; and, therefore, hope you will not need any further admonition to direct your conduct."
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

At Venus obscuro gradientes ære sepsit, Et multo Nebulæ circum Dea fudit amictu, Cernere ne quis eos ... Virg.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Bien que je ne sois pas multilingue, ni même bilingue moi-même, je suis conscient du fait que très peu de domaines ont une importance comparable à celle des langues et du multilinguisme.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

At last in the stress of her fear she did that which might have daunted the bravest or most active man, for by the aid of the growth of ivy which covered (and still covers) the south wall she came down from under the eaves, and so homeward across the moor, there being three leagues betwixt the Hall and her father’s farm.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing so common as to find a Man whom in the general Observations of his Carriage you take to be of an uniform Temper, subject to such unaccountable Starts of Humour and Passion, that he is as much unlike himself and differs as much from the Man you at first thought him, as any two distinct Persons can differ from each other.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Thus was that conspiracy disbanded, for each man retired from those he could not understand, and associated with those whose speech was intelligible; and the nations were divided according to their languages, and scattered over the earth as seemed good to God, who accomplished this in ways hidden from and incomprehensible to us.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Who can doubt but that in a city doomed for eternal duration, increasing to an immense magnitude, new civil offices, priesthoods, rights of families and of individuals, may be established?
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

" Then Thumbling heard his parents' voices, and cried, "Dear father, I am here; I am in the wolf's body."
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

And if we retrench the sleeve of the robe, as it is styled by their writers, the long and narrow province of Africa, the solid and compact dominion from Fargana to Aden, from Tarsus to Surat, will spread on every side to the measure of four or five months of the march of a caravan.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The calculation of the protein content of the luncheon above is: Number of Calories derived from protein of egg 18.2 Number of Calories derived from protein of bread 13.8 Number of Calories derived from protein of marmalade 0.7 Number of Calories derived from protein of butter 0.5 Number of Calories derived from protein of banana 5.3 Number of Calories derived from protein of milk 19.1 —— Number of Calories derived from protein of entire meal 57.6
— from School and Home Cooking by Carlotta C. (Carlotta Cherryholmes) Greer

The money he had received for his portion of the land was spent, certainly, before his receipts equalled his expenditure; and strangely enough, by the time the farmer had paid off his debt, the doctor was involved, not to a large amount, but enough to render his "appearance" to a certain degree fictitious.
— from Turns of Fortune, and Other Tales by Hall, S. C., Mrs.

We were very quiet now, as we half sat, half lay upon the rocky bottom of the crack, till our strength was somewhat renewed after our late efforts, when, dragging myself up, I wiped the clammy dew from my forehead, and Tom followed my example.
— from The Golden Magnet by George Manville Fenn

The name of Varuna is commonly derived from vri (or Var),* to cover, according to the commentator Sayana, because "he envelops the wicked in his snares," the nets which he carries to capture the guilty.
— from Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

As I wheeled at the stern-grating in my monotonous promenade of the lee side of the quarter-deck, a hail came down from aloft— “Sail ho!
— from A Middy in Command: A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Harry Collingwood

The licence for the college dates from 1511; the building was opened in 1516; and the statutes were drawn up by Fisher.
— from Cambridge by M. A. R. (Mildred Anna Rosalie) Tuker

It is, therefore, established beyond question for all impartial scientific inquiry that the human race comes directly from the apes of the Old World; but, at the same time, I repeat that this is not so important in connection with the main question of the origin of man as is commonly supposed.
— from The Evolution of Man by Ernst Haeckel

The leading points of the legend are briefly glanced at in the Iliad; but our knowledge of the details is chiefly derived from the Attic tragedians, who transformed the narratives of their predecessors at pleasure, and whose popularity constantly eclipsed and obliterated the ancient version.
— from History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12) by George Grote