Dives agris, dives positis in fœnore nummis —Rich 55 in lands, rich in money laid out at interest.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment, all sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself, all small children already have the old person in themselves, all infants already have death, all dying people the eternal life.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Dee (properly D), a detective policeman.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Boston, 1920. (10) Delbrück, A. Die pathologische Lüge und die psychisch abnormen Schwindler.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

For a while she had kept both herself and the child on the twelve shillings a week that twelve hours’ drudgery a day procured her, paying six shillings out of it for the child, and keeping her own body and soul together on the remainder.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

A breeze blew over the garden, dropping dew and dropping petals, shivered over the drenched paddocks, and was lost in the sombre bush.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

At a distance, they heard the gay song of the peasants among the vineyards, and observed the setting sun tint the waves with yellow lustre, and twilight draw a dusky purple over the mountains, which, at length, deepened into night.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Slavery dislikes a dense population, in which there is a majority of non-slaveholders.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

[459] On the same day a decree passed the [Pg 216] senate "that political clubs and associations should be broken up, and that a law in regard to them should be brought in, enacting that those who did not break off from them should be liable to the same penalty as those convicted of riot."
— from The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Marcus Tullius Cicero

In this way does Aristotle distribute Plato's four cardinal virtues.
— from Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson

"I have mistook my person all this while," &c. Do you know I saw a picture, the very pattern of her, the other day, at Dalkeith Palace (Hope finding Fortune in the Sea), just before this blessed news came, and the resemblance drove me almost out of my senses.
— from Liber Amoris, Or, The New Pygmalion by William Hazlitt

His wife, whom he married in 1876, was one of his deaf and dumb pupils.
— from Inventors by Philip Gengembre Hubert

des Arabes, des Persans et des Turcs.
— from The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire; a history of the Osmanlis up to the death of Bayezid I (1300-1403) by Herbert Adams Gibbons

However, day after day passed and nothing happened.
— from The Treasure of Heaven: A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli

But although the general characters of a solar eclipse might be investigated on these principles, so far as respects the earth at large, yet, as the appearances of the same eclipse of the sun are very different at different places on the earth's surface, it is necessary to calculate its peculiar aspects for each place separately, a circumstance which makes the calculation of a solar eclipse much more complicated and tedious than that of an eclipse of the moon.
— from Letters on Astronomy in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers by Denison Olmsted

He has learned one of the most important lessons in human life who understands adequately the difference between formal perception and organic experience, contrasting the futility of detached and deathly proverbs with the utility of nutritious and electrical maxims.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The Church was to remain the interpreter of the doctrinal and disputed points of the Scriptures.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Reformation by John Lord