de Latitudine aL polo articho in x gradi de longitudine de la linea de la repartitiõe cento ſexanta cat o gradi et
— 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

With distracting coolness and slowness—for he knows the curiosity of the Charmer to be always devouring—Eugene makes a pretence of getting out an eyeglass, polishing it, and reading the paper with difficulty, long after he has seen what is written on it.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

And if you do not obey me, I will let you die like a dog, when you are ill in your turn; do you hear?”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

I also require, that you shall promise me to attend the daily lecture at Allhallows, and the sermon at St. Paul's every Sunday; that you cast away all your books of popery, and in their place substitute the Testament and the Book of Service, and that you read the Scriptures with reverence and fear, calling upon God for his grace to direct you in his truth.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

If on the other hand the year named by Tacitus be adopted, we gain a subsidiary confirmation of the comparatively late date which I have ventured to assign to these epistles on independent grounds; for, if they had been written two years earlier, when the blow was recent, we might reasonably have expected to find some reference to a disaster which had devastated Laodicea and from which Colossæ cannot have escaped altogether without injury.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

I will remark here, that although to the inexperienced stranger all the quartz of a particular “district” looks about alike, an old resident of the camp can take a glance at a mixed pile of rock, separate the fragments and tell you which mine each came from, as easily as a confectioner can separate and classify the various kinds and qualities of candy in a mixed heap of the article.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Wauken, ye breezes, row gently, ye billows, And waft my dear laddie ance mair to my arms.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

To this infantine imbecility [576] the first man did not fall by his lawless presumption and just sentence; but human nature was in his person vitiated and altered to such an extent, that he suffered in his members the warring of disobedient lust, and became subject to the necessity of dying.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

“Did that fellow Dick look at you?
— from The Banshee by Elliott O'Donnell

The Wyandotte wiped his powerful jaw with a handful of dead leaves, and looked coldly around at the little circle of men who differed with one another so profoundly in their religious beliefs.
— from The Hidden Children by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Of the reputation thus quickly 128 acquired, she never, to the day of her death, lost an atom; but continued to perform, in different parts of England, with accumulating fame, till her marriage deprived the people of England of her talents.
— from The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by Samuel James Arnold

We reached the terminus of the railway at Chimoyo after two days' long and fatiguing travel from Mtali, including an upset of our vehicle in descending a steep donga to the bed of a streamlet—an upset which might easily have proved serious, but gave us nothing worse than a few bruises.
— from Impressions of South Africa by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

The waves rose mountains high, as if they would have overtopped the mast; but the ship dived like a swan between them, and then rose again on their lofty, foaming crests.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Divide in Partes quatuor, & capt. æger unam omni hora donec laxetur alvus.
— from An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Donald Monro