Catullus , lxiv.; Vergil , Ecl. iv.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

The sauces to go with it were unusually varied and delicate—” “Permit me, your Excellency, it seems to me you are not so careful either in the selection of reading matter,” interrupted the first Official, who secured the Gazette again and started to read: “One of the oldest inhabitants of Viatka has discovered a new and highly original recipe for fish soup; A live codfish ( lota vulgaris ) is taken and beaten with a rod until its liver swells up with anger...” The Officials’ heads drooped.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Car le chasseur le voit à peine Qu'il l'ajuste, le tire—et le chien tombe mort Que dirait de ceci notre bon La Fontaine?
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

13, Plate 61.--The lateral lobes, d e , of the prostate are enlarged; and, occupying the position of the third lobe, appear as three masses, a b c, plicated upon each other, and directed towards the vesical orifice, which they close like valves.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Rudo en el lenguaje, de una rudeza natural, escribió «El Gaucho Martín Fierro,» completado más tarde con «La Vuelta de Martín Fierro,» poemas que son un exponente nítido del espíritu criollo, ameno para la charla, que suele matizar con sentencias e imágenes tanto más poéticas cuanto no pertenecen al género metafórico, de que tanto se abusa en los tiempos que corren.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

It is, said he, a beau con le vit monte, or to a fair c. .
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

THE EAGLE AND HIS CAPTOR A Man once caught an Eagle, and after clipping his wings turned him loose among the fowls in his hen-house, where he moped in a corner, looking very dejected and forlorn.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

Puisque toutes les paroisses circonvoisines ont adressé au ciel leurs vœux, si nos voisins ont de la pluie, nous en aurons aussi, car nous sommes au centre; s'ils n'en ont pas, nous aurons épargné
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Wiht f. Isle of Wight , Chr [ L. Vectis] wihte adv.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

The troops under General Smith, comprising two divisions of the 16th and a detachment of the 17th army corps, left Vicksburg on the 10th of March, and reached the designated point on Red River one day earlier than that appointed by General Banks.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Descartes wrote in French, the title of his first edition being: Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison et chercher la vérité dans les sciences, plus la dioptrique, les météores et la géométrie qui sont des essais de cette méthode , Leyden, 1637, 4to.
— from A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Augustus De Morgan

Of the several cemeteries in Cleveland, Lake View (300 acres), on an elevated site on the east border of the city is [107] the most noteworthy; here are buried President Garfield (the Garfield memorial is a sandstone tower 165 ft. high with a chapel and crypt at its base), Mark Hanna and John Hay.
— from The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns, Cities and Country Passed Through Between New York and Chicago Via the New York Central Lines. Based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. by New York Central Railroad Company

Some species have considerable lumber value.
— from Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers

E seguitai: <<Come 'l verace stilo ne scrisse, padre, del tuo caro frate che mise teco
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri

21-22, 28; iv. 6 Moréti, Louis, i. 5 Morey, the assassin, v. 101 Morice, Dom, i. 5 Mornay, Demoiselle de, v. 115 Morny, Charles Auguste Louis Joseph Duc de, iii. 169 Morosini, Doge of Venice, Michele, vi. 59 Mortemart, Casimir Louis Victurnien de Rochechouart, Prince de Tonnay-Charente, Duc de, v. 111, 113-114, 116-118, 122-123, 128 Mortemart, Gabriel de Rochechouart, Marquis de, i. 103, 178 Mortemart, Victurnien Bonaventure Victor de Rochechouart, Marquis de, i. 106; ii. 35 ; vi. 246 Mortemart (see also Fontevrault, Montespan and Thianges) Mosbourg, Jean Michel Laurent Agar Comte de, iv. 190 Mosbourg, née Marat, Comtesse de, iv. 190 Moses, ii. 218 ; iv. 226, 285; v. 392 Moskowa (see d'Elchingen) Mosselmann, M., iv.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 2 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

Mr. Copas looked very mysterious and winked at him vigorously.
— from Old Mole Being the Surprising Adventures in England of Herbert Jocelyn Beenham, M.A., Sometime Sixth-Form Master at Thrigsby Grammar School in the County of Lancaster by Gilbert Cannan

At the station we met our old friends the Chinese Commissioners, looking very curious in travelling-gowns over their national costumes.
— from The Last Voyage: To India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Annie Brassey

Densil first, on a grey cob, looking very old and feeble, straining his eyes up the glen whither Charles, and James, the old keeper, had gone with the greyhounds.
— from Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley