In medio secunda legio immissa dissipavit phalangem; neque ulla evidentior causa victoriae fuit, quam quod multa passim proelia erant, quae fluctuantem turbarunt primo, deinde disiecerunt phalangem, cuius confertae et intentis horrentes 5 hastis intolerabiles vires sunt; si carptim aggrediendo circumagere immobilem longitudine et gravitate hastam cogas, confusa strue implicantur: si vero aut ab latere aut ab tergo aliquid tumultus increpuit, ruinae modo turbantur.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

It belongs to my chieftain,” and here he touched his hat, “and while I would be but a silly messenger to grudge some of it that the rest might come safe, I should show myself a hound indeed if I bought my own carcase any too dear.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

These are the tales told by the Persians and the Phenicians severally: and concerning these things I am not going to say that they happened thus or thus, 401 but when I have pointed to the man who first within my own knowledge began to commit wrong against the Hellenes, I shall go forward further with the story, giving an account of the cities of men, small as well as great: for those which in old times were great have for the most part become small, while those that were in my own time great used in former times to be small: so then, since I know that human prosperity never continues steadfast, I shall make mention of both indifferently.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Although the artist will very seldom be called upon to draw a cone, the same principles of light and shade that are so clearly seen in such a simple figure obtain throughout the whole of nature.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Victorie Sate Eagle-wing’d, beside him hung his Bow And Quiver with three-bolted Thunder stor’d, And from about him fierce Effusion rowld Of smoak and bickering flame, and sparkles dire; Attended with ten thousand thousand Saints, He onward came, farr off his coming shon, And twentie thousand (I thir number heard) Chariots of God, half on each hand were seen: Hee on the wings of Cherub rode sublime On the Crystallin Skie, in Saphir Thron’d.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

“Take care, Sam; I shall begin to think what’s the reason for your spite agin Lucy.”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The serving class, comparatively speaking, is small, and admits of little competition.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

We have a log line, with marks on it, and by letting that run out astern we judge how fast the ship is going; then the compass tells us the course she is steering, that is, the way she is going, and that we call “dead reckoning.”
— from Taking Tales: Instructive and Entertaining Reading by William Henry Giles Kingston

You are greatly changed since I saw you last.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 4, October 1852 by Various

Yevsey opened the window, and listened to the grumbling and stirring of the dark, exhausted city sinking into sleep.
— from The Spy: The Story of a Superfluous Man by Maksim Gorky

[412] The (p. 279) remaining sixty-nine representatives are chosen still in single member districts.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

2035 I hear the wind among the trees Playing celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.
— from Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson

Nor was Captain Credence, though in the castle, silent in such a day, but he, from the top of the hold, showed himself with sound of trumpet to Mansoul, and to the Prince's camp.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

Even the children took part in the game; I could see into several houses, where it was going on briskly.
— from Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Brandes