Far less can my weak line declare Each changing passion’s shade: Bright’ning to rapture from despair, Sorrow, surprise, and pity there, And joy, with her angelic air, And hope, that paints the future fair, Their varying hues displayed: Each o’er its rival’s ground extending, Alternate conquering, shifting, blending.
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

Cum duo edificasset castella, ad tollendam structionis invidiam, et expiandam maculam, duo instituit caenobia, et collegis relgiosis implevit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

A lo sumo, [11] tal vez pueda Ud. descubrir esa comunidad en ciertos distritos geográficos; pero no es raro que la historia—esa historia a que Ud. atribuye la función de vínculo—sea precisamente un elemento de alejamiento y de rivalidad.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

I resolved to fly far from the scene of my misfortunes; but to me, hated and despised, every country must be equally horrible.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Virus, chaînes du "bonheur", sollicitations commerciales, sites fascistes, informations non contrôlées, se développent en ce moment à très grande échelle.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

And more than this, if Time, That wastes with eld the works along the world, Destroy entire, consuming matter all, Whence then may Venus back to light of life Restore the generations kind by kind?
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

And as they were playing in a real forest, they found, I am sure, their dresses extremely convenient.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

d' ou chrêston, kai tô men physei pikrocholô blaberon, ôphelimon de tô phlegmatôdei; kai tôn nosêmatôn hôsautôs tois men pikrocholois echthron, tois de phlegmatôdesi philion; heni de logô tois men thermois sômasin ê dia physin ê dia noson ê di' hêlikian ê di' hôran ê dia chôran ê di' epitêdeuma cholês gennêtikon, haimatos de tois enantiois.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

[1] dentro de San Miguel el Grande, [2] dentro de esa ciudad donde todo es amable, donde todo es bello, donde son simpáticas hasta las pobres muchachuelas que con sus zagalejos atraviesan las calles, cargadas con su verdura, con sus aves, o con sus manojos de flores.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Instead of going to the right places—banks, police stations, rendezvous—he systematically went to the wrong places; knocked at every empty house, turned down every cul de sac, went up every lane blocked with rubbish, went round every crescent that led him uselessly out of the way.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Joe Drummond, eyes carefully ahead, went up the Street.
— from K by Mary Roberts Rinehart

So when Professor Doctor Nels Christianson opened the letter, there was not the slightest fear on his part, or on that of his fellow committeemen, Dr. Eric Carlstrom and Dr. Sven Eklund, that the letter would be anything other than the usual routine acceptance.
— from A Prize for Edie by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

To the last he persistently and leeringly retorted his offer; always concluding, like another Cato, with his eternal Delenda est Carthago.
— from The Black Lion Inn by Alfred Henry Lewis

Yet, although this is true, it does not follow that the vision of the Divine Essence constitutes the whole Beatific Vision; for the human mind cannot rest satisfied with knowledge alone, how perfect soever it may be.
— from The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus by F. J. Boudreaux

I say this not in self-praise, but in the same spirit of accuracy which has prompted me to put down everything concerning this greatest mystery of our natures as I have experienced it and worked it out.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis

Its flowers, of great beauty, are papilionaceous; and its fruit, entirely without use in domestic economy, compared particularly with the Amra, may well be called barren.
— from Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems by Henry Hart Milman

The Shadow of Victory A Romance of Fort Dearborn (early Chicago)
— from The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History by Myrtle Reed