15 Ibi auctore Postumio Minucius cum hostibus signa confert, et, cum anceps proelium in multum diei processisset, tum Postumius integris legionibus defessam iam aciem hostium improviso invadit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

DENMARK License Requirements Export licenses are required for all commodities, except certain agricultural products, if the goods are exported to or intended for end use in countries which are not members of the European Payments Union or are within the dollar area.
— from East-West Trade Trends Mutual Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951 (the Battle Act); Fourth Report to Congress, Second Half of 1953 by United States. Foreign Operations Administration

It is no doubt this trait of its character that explains its comparative absence from our "home" mountains round Ronda, and the failure of our search for it in that district; for the ramification of mountain-ranges which occupies that southernmost apex of Europe swarms with vultures, which crowd every crag and precipice in numbers quite unknown elsewhere.
— from Wild Spain (España agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Abel Chapman

“Any Englishman can easily conceive a poet in his highest calenture of the brain, addressing the Ocean as a steed that knows his rider, and patting the crested billow as his flowing mane.
— from History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12) by George Grote

Did any other books, not now included in the canon, ever claim a place in it?
— from Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Washington Gladden

He cursed every circumstance and person impartially and fluently, but he omitted from the Satanic litany the one girlish prank of tree-climbing that led Iris to spring out of sight amid the sheltering arms of an elm when her uncle and Captain Coke deemed the summer-house a suitable place for "a plain talk as man to man."
— from The Stowaway Girl by Louis Tracy

But privacy is a luxury reserved for the rich, and Dan and his kind cannot even claim a place in which to break their hearts.
— from Calvary Alley by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

At seven o'clock the vast crowd by Temple Bar compelled every coachman and passenger in a coach, as a passport, to pull off his hat and shout "Huzza!"
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury