Dixerat et velox iam nuntius advolat urbem.
— from Claudian, volume 1 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

Among the extensive writings on the periodicity of earthquakes one main fact stands out with great distinctness: earthquakes vary in number according to the season.
— from Climatic Changes: Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington

In 1475, perhaps as an echo of some verses in the “Noua compilatio Decretalium Gregorii IX” of 1473, we find a new phrase tacked on to the “arte impressoria” in an edition of Justinian, noting the fact that though Providence did not consider antiquity worthy of the art, it had been granted to our times (“qua quidem etsi antiquitas diuino non digna est visa indicio, nostra nichilominus tempestate indulta”).
— from An Essay on Colophons, with Specimens and Translations by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard

This desire, expressed verbally, is not sufficient.
— from Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo

[31] Kant employs substantially the same argument:—"Würde das höchste Wesen in dieser Kette der Bedingungen stehen, so würde es selbst ein Glied der Reihe derselben sein, und eben so wie die niederen Glieder, denen es vorgesetzt ist, noch fernere Untersuchungen wegen seines noch höheren Grundes erfahren.
— from Hume (English Men of Letters Series) by Thomas Henry Huxley