She was the daughter of L. Drusus Calidianus and married Tiberius Claudius Nero, by whom she had two sons, Tiberius and Drusus.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Le tatouage des oeuvres lors de l'impression personnelle est un excellent moyen de limiter la diffusion d'impressions excessives.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

[51-3] decíroslo, os lo digo ahora.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Of this hostile temper, a large portion may doubtless be ascribed to the difference of language, dress, and manners, which severs and alienates the nations of the globe.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Le débat sur le droit d'auteur sur le web me semble assez proche sur le fond de ce qu'il est dans les autres domaines où le droit d'auteur s'exerce, ou devrait s'exercer.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Division of labor does not mean cutting up every business into minute fractions; it means the union of such operations as are fit to be performed by the same persons, and the separation of such as can be better performed by different persons.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

The daughter of Latona does love the forests.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

They were always engaged in some sentimental discussion or lively dispute, but their sentiment was conveyed in such whispering voices, and their vivacity attended with so much laughter, that though Catherine's supporting opinion was not unfrequently called for by one or the other, she was never able to give any, from not having heard a word of the subject.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

In New Guinea there is the celebrated Victoria Crowned Pigeon, largest living of all the tribe; and in the Samoa Islands, without any near relation, the Didunculus , or Little Dodo—a ground-frequenting bird (which has since taken to the trees) that shows us how the large Dodo of Mauritius developed from the ordinary fruit-pigeon type.
— from Pioneers in Australasia by Harry Johnston

From the preceding remarks it will be seen, that in order to foretell the character of particular days, a previous knowledge of the weather at that particular place, and for some considerable time, is requisite; and hence the difficulty of laying down general rules, until the theory is more fully understood.
— from Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Thomas Bassnett

the dethe owle loude dothe synge"; whilst Hogarth introduces the same bird in the murder scene of his Four Stages of Cruelty .
— from Animal Ghosts; Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by Elliott O'Donnell

A gentle punishment for the distributors of letters de cachet and Spielberg dungeons to their fellow-men.
— from At Home And Abroad; Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Margaret Fuller

Not in England or America alone, but in almost every part of the world, the railways have extended with wonderful rapidity; the continent of Europe is embraced by a network of lines; the distant colonies of Australia and New Zealand have thousands of miles of lines laid down, and many more in progress; the map of India shows that peninsula traversed in all directions by the iron roads; and in the far distant East we hear of Japan having several lines in successful operation, and the design of laying down more.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

It surely was an idyllic picture that the dear old lady drew, and I have often wished myself amid the rush and roar of [86] modern life, that we might go back to the simpler methods of those Arcadian days.
— from The Autobiography of Methuselah by John Kendrick Bangs

DEATH OF LORENZO DE’ MEDICI.
— from Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent (vol. 2 of 2) by Alfred von Reumont