They wore black arm-bands with orange “P's,” and carried canes flying Princeton pennants, the effect completed by socks and peeping handkerchiefs in the same color motifs.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Adversative cause: fuit perpetuō pauper, cum dīvitissimus esse posset , N. 19, 1, 2, he was always poor, whereas he might have been very rich , of Phocion.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Ut enim admodum adolescens, 5 cum fratre pari pietate et industria praedito, paternas inimicitias magna cum gloria est persecutus, in Asiam quaestor profectus, ibi permultos annos admirabili quadam laude provinciae praefuit: deinde absens factus aedilis, continuo praetor: licebat 10 enim celerius legis praemio : post in Africam: inde ad consulatum: quem ita gessit ut diligentiam admirarentur omnes, ingenium cognoscerent.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

The subclavian artery has no special sheath, properly so called; but the deep layer of the cervical fascia, P, Plate 8, which passes under A, the clavicular portion of the sterno-mastoid muscle, and becomes of considerable thickness and density, sheaths over the vessel in this region of its course.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Mais j'anime www.superfever.com, site d'un personnage de fiction, Sadie Nassau, producteur au sein d'une société de divertissements (STARTOP) produisant pour diverses chaînes francophones périphériques, pour le net, et pour la convergence entre les deux, domaine que je connais bien, comme vous vous en doutez… Nostalgie?
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Mis en notre langve par J. B. D. A. Paris, chez Francois Piot, pres la Fontaine de Saint Benoist.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Then Amasis, when he had read the paper which had come from Polycrates, perceived that it was impossible for man to rescue man from the event which was to come to pass, and that Polycrates was destined not to have a good end, being prosperous in all things, seeing that he found again even that which he cast away.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

“You are right,” said her father, in a sweet tone which contrasted with the young girl’s rudeness, “but then, you will not be allowed to enter churches, for poor people must have shoes to do that.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

If in autumn apples cost fourpence per pound in Melbourne, and potatoes a shilling a score in spring, when will greengages be sold in Brisbane at three-halfpence each, Sydney oranges being at a discount of five per cent.?
— from The Puzzle King Amusing arithmetic, book-keeping blunders, commercial comicalities, curious "catches", peculiar problems, perplexing paradoxes, quaint questions, queer quibbles, school stories, interesting items, tricks with figures, cards, draughts, dice, dominoes, etc., etc., etc. by John Scott

18mo, uniform with “Beaven’s Help.” CABINET SERIES OF NARRATIVES, BIOGRAPHY, &c. For Presents, Prizes, Village-Schools, &c. Illustrated with Cuts.
— from Australia, its history and present condition containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies, with their respective inhabitants by W. (William) Pridden

Imports - commodities: food, petroleum products, semimanufactures, consumer goods, transportation equipment Imports - partners: South Africa 36.1%, India 8.5%, Tanzania 6.1%, US 6.1%, China 4.9% (2007) Economic aid - recipient: $575.3 million (2005) Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $217.2 million (31 December 2007 est.)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Barristers' fees are, of course, for purely professional services and do not come within the same category as the immense sums one occasionally hears of being received by American lawyers—not, however, as a rule, for real professional services in litigation, but for success in promoting, merging or reorganizing business enterprises.
— from A Philadelphia Lawyer in the London Courts by Thomas Leaming

Bands of rioters, to the number of several thousand, among them many newly arrived Great-Russian day laborers, and a few "intellectual" ringleaders, fell upon Jewish stores and residences and destroyed or looted their contents, complying faithfully with the established pogrom ritual, while the police and Cossack forces proved "powerless."
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 3 [of 3] From the Accession of Nicholas II until the Present Day by Simon Dubnow

I should think it was just the country for poor people to live in.”
— from Charlie Bell, The Waif of Elm Island by Elijah Kellogg

Miss Hoppe speaks in glowing terms of the spiritual impressions received in childhood from pious parents and a consecrated pastor, the sainted John Bading, who both baptized and confirmed her.
— from The Story of Our Hymns by Ernest Edwin Ryden

Black Indian Hemp (Apocynum Cannabinum), Flowering Portion, Pods, and Rootstock.
— from Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants A Book of Valuable Information for Growers as Well as Collectors of Medicinal Roots, Barks, Leaves, Etc. by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding

"Of all the cants that are canted in this canting age" this has always seemed to me the most wretched, especially when it comes from professed psychologists.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James