I have seen two very different methods employed in this branch of the service.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Bid the suitors take themselves off, each to his own place, and if your mother's mind is set on marrying again, let her go back to her father, who will find her a husband and provide her with all the marriage gifts that so dear a daughter may expect.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

IMG IMG IMG IMG You have now heard of my descent, my education, and my attendance; that I may not be taxed as presumptuous in borrowing the title of a goddess, I come now in the next place to acquaint you what obliging favours I everywhere bestow, and how largely my jurisdiction extends: for if, as one has ingenuously noted, to be a god is no other than to be a benefactor to mankind; and if they have been thought deservedly deified who have invented the use of wine, corn, or any other convenience for the well-being of mortals, why may not I justly bear the van among the whole troop of gods, who in all, and toward all, exert an unparalleled bounty and beneficence?
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

etwas zu tun banks are in no way concerned with Banken müssen alle Dokumente prüfen banks must examine all documents Banken sind durch solche Verträge gebunden banks are bound by such contracts Banken sind nur berechtigt zu verfahren banks are only permitted to act Banken; die mit einem Inkasso befasst sind banks concerned with a collection Banken; welche die Dienste in Anspruch nehmen banks utilising the services Bankenkonsortium banking syndicate Bankenkonsortium group of banks Bankfachmann banker Bankfeiertag bank holiday
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Tunc turbatis defensoribus metu et moenia capta, et porta intus forisque pariter refringi coepta; et mox 15 caedendo confectis ac distractis , ne iter impediretur, foribus armati impetum fecerunt. . . .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Down yonder, through the branches, I saw, like patches, bits of the Mediterranean gleaming so that they fairly dazzled my eyes.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Mon activité internet est une activité technique de mise en place de systèmes, très souvent interfacés avec des bases de données.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

And truly, my lord, to express the real truth without dissimulation, I cannot but say that those petty subtle devices which are found out in the etymologizing of pattens would descend more easily into the river of Seine, to serve for ever at the millers’ bridge upon the said water, as it was heretofore decreed by the king of the Canarians, according to the sentence or judgment given thereupon, which is to be seen in the registry and records within the clerk’s office of this house.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

¡Pobrecito 196 niño de mis entrañas!
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

manger , dévorer; mâcher et avaler.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

"Why, of course we do, Miss Elting," declared Harriet.
— from The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat; Or, the Stormy Cruise of the Red Rover by Janet Aldridge

Every angry threat, every sullen hour, each case of insubordination, every strike, every widespread dissatisfaction, means economic waste.
— from The Warriors by Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

B.S., D.P.H.R.C.P.S.I. DISPENSER Mr. E. Stone.
— from The Flaming Sword in Serbia and Elsewhere by M. A. (Mabel Annie) Stobart

You've done mischief enough for one day.
— from The Home at Greylock by E. (Elizabeth) Prentiss

Were I a French critic, skilled in their elaborate art of writing books about books, I should probably go to some length discussing Mr. Eliot's two sorts of metaphor: his wholly unrealizable, always apt, half ironic suggestion, and his precise realizable picture.
— from Instigations Together with An Essay on the Chinese Written Character by Ezra Pound

Absolutely on the same page on which that dying man enters diseases and medicines enough to fill a doctor’s diary after a whole day in an incurable hospital, that noble soul goes on to say: ‘I preached before the wars twice each Lord’s Day, but after the wars but once, and once every Thursday, besides occasional sermons.
— from Bunyan Characters (1st Series) by Alexander Whyte

Why, the father seems as much in love with him as the daughter; and though the noble and right valiant old lord is now over at Lindwell, preparing to eclipse all that has gone before, in his reception of the king, Hugh de Monthermer, each day since we have been here, has ridden over and spent the whole morning there, alone, I verily believe, with his lady-love."
— from Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

my dear Miss Edgeworth, my kind friend to the last."
— from The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Maria Edgeworth

This preparation of great quantities of material with no care as to the graces of delivery may expose the speaker in time to another peril—that of being tedious and wearisome; but this is not the source of the initial fear with which we are now dealing, and when it becomes a real evil there are effectual means of guarding against it.
— from Extempore Speech: How to Acquire and Practice It by William Pittenger

XXXV "Yet happy were my death, mine ending blest,
— from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso