Tucti li populi de queſta parte deL mondo le vzanno ꝓ che rinfreſcali molto eL core Se reſtaſſeno de vzarle morirebenno in queſta izolla ſonno cany gati porci galine capre rizo gengero cochi figui naranzi limoni miglio panizo ſorgo cera et molto oro ſta de Latitudine in noue gradi et dui terſi
— 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

Let not your misguided prejudice against me hurry you to your own and your children's destruction; let it not get the better, Madame, of your good sense and reason; the fatal moment is near; it is at hand!'
— from Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 6 Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe by Mme. Du Hausset

The greater danger lies in not giving sufficient responsibility to children and youths.
— from Rural Life and the Rural School by Joseph Kennedy

"Majesty," she said, with cool decision, "love is not given by command, it cannot be bestowed arbitrarily.
— from Frederick the Great and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

For if a great and intense sorrow do not last, then that which doth last is not great nor hard to be borne.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

As ye do know, my wife and child do lie in nameless grave, done to cruel death by dogs of Pertolepe: my brother rotted in a noose—set there by Pertolepe.
— from Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol

On this night we were proceeding Indian file, Dik leading, I next, G. protecting my rear, when Dik's gun, carried muzzle down, touched an invisible snag, which jerked it from his arm.
— from Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge