Quae 3 ubi audîvit, Herculês ad illam urbem statim contendit et Eurystheô sê in servitûtem trâdidit et dîxit, "Quid prîmum, Ô rêx, mê facere iubês?"
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Turpium deliciarum comes est externa saltatio; neque certe facile dictu quae mala hinc visus hauriat, et quae pariat, colloquia, monstrosus, inconditos gestus, &c. 5144 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Pour moi, le cyberespace est l'ensemble des liens existant entre les individus utilisant la technologie pour communiquer entre eux, soit pour partager des informations, soit pour discuter.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Next I stated at what period they began the formation of a navy; and what befell both the one side and the other up to the end of the war; the consequence of which was that the Carthaginians entirely evacuated Sicily, and the Romans took possession of the whole island, except such parts as were still under the rule of Hiero.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

I could easily enough see that at present this was impossible; that the happiness I enjoyed would be of short duration, and this idea gave to my contemplations a tincture of melancholy, which, however, was not gloomy, but tempered with a flattering hope.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Of course, even Englishmen sometimes complained of being so constantly told that they were brutes and hypocrites, although they were told little else by their censors, and bore it, on the whole, meekly; but the fact that it was true in the main troubled the ten-pound voter much less than it troubled Newman, Gladstone, Ruskin, Carlyle, and Matthew Arnold.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Matoses Christi ministerum presbiterumque castigatus et emendatus sub impensis
— from An Essay on Colophons, with Specimens and Translations by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard

Whenever he was in the country, every evening saw him taking his walk towards the church.
— from Makers of Electricity by Brother Potamian

Collins & Co. Eggleston, E. : "Stories of American Life and Adventure.
— from Stories of Old Kentucky by Purcell, Martha C. Grassham, Mrs.

The origin of these valuable instruments is uncertain: that the ancients were acquainted with the laws of refraction is beyond all doubt, since they made use of glass globes filled with water to produce combustion; and in Seneca we find the following very curious passage—“Litteræ, quamvis minutiæ et obscuræ, per vitream pilam aquâ plenam majores clarioresque cernuntur;” yet thirteen centuries elapsed ere spectacles were known.
— from Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

Hear the sad cascade, ere ever Sinks in rising tides its moan, True may be the tale, though never By the victor ocean known.
— from Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of

On the point of the marriage he had recommended delay,—a course quite in accordance with Elsie's desire, who, curiously enough, ever since her treaty of marriage with Antonio had been commenced, had cherished the most whimsical, jealous dislike of him, as if he were about to get away her grandchild from her; and this rose at times so high that she could scarcely speak peaceably to him,—a course of things which caused Antonio to open wide his great soft ox-eyes, and wonder at the ways of woman-kind; but he waited the event in philosophic tranquillity.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The French sisters of charity have a large orphanage and day-school here, established originally by Madame Calderon; but the situation, in the street called Recogidas, is low and damp, and their chapel being almost underground, and into which no sun can ever enter, seriously affects the health of the sisters.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various