Continuum ejus usus semper felicem in aegris finem est assequutus.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Law found that he lived under a despotic government; but he was not yet aware of the pernicious influence which such a government could exercise upon so delicate a framework as that of credit.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Every one of them was calling earnestly upon some saint, but not one single prayer to
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[4498] emblems of rings, squares, &c., shadow unto us, Si rerum quaeris fuerit quis finis et ortus, Desine; nam causa est unica solus amor.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Practically every part of Africa seems to be suitable for coffee cultivation, even United South Africa, in the southern part of the continent, producing 140,212 pounds in 1918.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

And both prophets, Elisha and Christ, encountered unfordable streams in their travels; the expedient of the former is to make a passage, but Christ performed the greater miracle of walking on the surface.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

IV. 43: "In legibus Numae cautum est, ut si quis imprudens occidisset hominem pro capite occisi et natis [agnatis?
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The princely dignity they confer even upon striplings, whose race is eminently noble, or whose fathers have done great and signal services to the State.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

This sally of wit was received with the most resigned complacency by those who had inspired it, and, staring with all my eyes, and listening with all my ears, I could hardly credit either upon seeing the most complaisant gesticulations, and hearing the most abject protestations of devoted attachment to his right reverence’s sacred person from all the company.
— from Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford

However, Pat, I thought, was exceedingly awe-stricken by my disappearance in this vehicle; which had evidently, too, a considerable effect upon some other waiters at the Shelburne, with whom I was not as yet so familiar.
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray

He followed it with comparative ease until some time after noon.
— from Daniel Boone, Backwoodsman by C. H. Forbes-Lindsay

Across Nicaragua with Transit and Machéte , by R. E. Peary, Civil Engineer, U. S. N. (Illustrated by one Map and three Views.)
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. I., No. 4, October, 1889 by Various

Late in the afternoon a cloud enveloped us so that we could see no farther than in a London fog.
— from The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

You pass ’em to me and I’ll carry ’em up safely.
— from The Young Castellan: A Tale of the English Civil War by George Manville Fenn

(a) Definition.--In this section, the term ``National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center'' means the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center established under section 1016(d) of the USA PATRIOT Act (42 U.S.C. 5195c(d)).
— from Homeland Security Act of 2002 Updated Through October 14, 2008 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security

Current economic usage speaks of money as a "measure" of values.
— from Social Value: A Study in Economic Theory, Critical and Constructive by Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson