Haec derecta materia iniecta contexebantur ac longuriis cratibusque consternebantur; ac nihilo setius sublicae et ad inferiorem partem fluminis oblique agebantur, quae 20 pro ariete subiectae et cum omni opere coniunctae vim fluminis exciperent; et aliae item supra pontem mediocri spatio, ut, si arborum trunci sive naves deiciendi operis essent a barbaris immissae, his defensoribus earum rerum vis minueretur, neu ponti 25 nocerent.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

VAN DYCK ET RUBENS Van Dyck était élève de Rubens.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

As Helmholtz says: "Hier gilt nur der eine Rath: vertraue und handle!"
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

vel etiam ipsius animi, quae vacent iustitia [290] ; haec enim una virtus omnium est domina et regina virtutum.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

sī dē caelō vīlla tācta siet, dē eā rē verba utī fīant , Cato, RR.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Si como ne diſſe eL re vno ha
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

To represent the perfect Nero, that is, the flattering and cowardly tyrant, in the same person with the vain and fantastical being who, as poet, singer, player, and almost as juggler, was desirous of admiration, and in the agony of death even recited verses from Homer, was compatible only with a mixed drama, in which tragical dignity is not required throughout.
— from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Ces dames le regardant lui dirent en riant, 'Vous plaisantez, Monsieur; ce n'est pas vous qui etes Napoleon.'
— from Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Patrick Fraser Tytler

I dislike even raspberry vinegar.
— from Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein

The list of recent deaths among men known in science includes the names of W. W. Norman, Professor of Biology in the University of Texas; John Whitehead, who died while on a scientific mission to the island of Hainan, for which he left England in the autumn of 1898; Naval Lieutenant Charles William Baillie, Marine Superintendent of the English Meteorological Office, inventor of the hydra sounding machine, late Director of Nautical Studies at the Imperial Naval College, Tokio, and author of important meteorological investigations, at Broadstairs, June 2th, aged fifty-five years; Henry Wollaston Blake, an original member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and of the British Association, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, eighty-four years of age; Edward Jannetaz, a French mineralogist, an assistant in the Museum of Paris, and Lecturer on Mineralogy for forty years, Master of Conferences in the Faculty of Sciences, author of Les Roches and other books, aged sixty-seven years; Dr. Eugen Ritter von Lommell, of the University of Munich, distinguished in mathematics, physics, and optics, and author of several books on those subjects, including The Nature of Light in the International Scientific Series, June 19th, in his sixty-third year; Sir Alexander Armstrong, arctic navigator and discoverer of the Northwest passage, late Director-General of the Medical Department of the British Museum, and author of a narrative of his great discovery and of a work on Naval Hygiene; Dr. Hugo Weidel, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Vienna; Sir William Henry Flower, late Director of the British Museum of Natural History, Past President of the British Association, at the time of his death President of the Zoölogical Society of London, and author of several excellent books on zoölogy, natural history, museums, and kindred subjects, aged sixty-eight years; and Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, the distinguished American ethnologist and linguist, of whom we give a fuller notice elsewhere. FOOTNOTES.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, September 1899 Vol. LV, May to October, 1899 by Various

deme essegar rote vuessa merced.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

For sheer beauty, “divine, enchanting ravishment,” Venus that day surpassed anything I have ever seen.
— from Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham

“I know that; but you have come to tell, or what the devil else?” replied Vanslyperken, who was getting angry.
— from Snarleyyow; or, The Dog Fiend by Frederick Marryat