Ch’al suon de’ detti sì pietosi e casti Poco mancò ch’io non rimasi in cielo.
— from Fifteen sonnets of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca

la porta di san Pietro e color cui tu fai cotanto mesti>>.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

e` colei che s'ancise amorosa, e ruppe fede al cener di Sicheo; poi e` Cleopatras lussuriosa.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Inferno: Canto XXXI Una medesma lingua pria mi morse, si` che mi tinse l'una e l'altra guancia, e poi la medicina mi riporse; cosi` od'io che solea far la lancia d'Achille e del suo padre esser cagione prima di trista e poi di buona mancia.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Winter-cherries, Love Apples, Almonds sweet and bitter, Anacardia, Oranges, Hazel Nuts, the oily Nut Ben, Barberries, Capers, Guinny Pepper, Figs, Carpobalsamum, Cloves, Cassia Fistula, Chestnuts, Cherries black and red, Cicers, white, black and red, Pome Citrons, Coculus Indi, Colocynthis, Currants, Cornels or Cornelian Cherries, Cubebs, Cucumbers garden and wild, Gourds, Cynosbatus, Cypress, Cones, Quinces, Dates, Dwarf-Elder, Green Figs, Strawberries, common and Turkey Galls, Acorns, Acorn Cups, Pomegranates, Gooseberries, Ivy, Herb True-Love, Walnuts, Jujubes, Juniper berries, Bayberries, Lemons, Oranges, Citrons, Quinces, Pomegranates, Lemons, Mandrakes, Peaches, Stramonium, Apples, garden and wild, or Crabs and Apples, Musk Melons, Medlars, Mulberries, Myrobalans, Bellericks, Chebs, Emblicks, Citron and Indian, Mirtle, Berries, water Nuts, Hazel Nuts, Chestnuts, Cypress Nuts, Walnuts, Nutmegs, Fistick Nuts, Vomiting Nuts, Olives pickled in brine, Heads of white and black Poppies, Pompions, Peaches, French or Kidney Beans, Pine, Cones, white, black, and long Pepper, Fistick Nuts, Apples and Crabs, Prunes, French and Damask, Sloes, Pears, English Currants, Berries of Purging Thorn, black Berries, Raspberries, Elder berries, Sebastens, Services, or Checkers, Hawthorn berries, Pine Nuts, Water Nuts, Grapes, Gooseberries, Raisins, Currants.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Su representante debe ser persona educada, capaz de [12] comportarse como caballero; deberá llevar cartas de presentación que le abran las puertas de los negociantes más conocidos, de los clubs y bancos, de las cámaras de comercio y otras organizaciones e instituciones mercantiles.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Animal largo tiempo desdeñado, no se ha levantado aún a los ojos de los criollos del largo abandono en que vegetaba hace aún un cuarto de siglo; por el contrario es muy buscado de [5] los extranjeros y por esta causa el consumo aumenta extraordinariamente.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

[Pg ii] Copyright, 1919, By Mary Ware Dennett SIXTH PRINTING Extra copies of this booklet may be had at the following rates from the author MRS.
— from The Sex Side of Life: An Explanation for Young People by Mary Ware Dennett

Item super thronum et desuper ante ipsius throni locum, tanquam pro celato seu operimento in throno residentium, et eorum ministrantium, est extensa similitudo vitis operata in palmitibus, et pampinis, de auro puro ad extensionem cubitorum quadraginta, per quadrum, atque per eam dependentes botri vuarum de gemmis, et granellis quinque colorum, quorum albi sunt de christallo et beryllo, et iriscrocei de topazio et fuluo christallo, rubei de rubetorum granis, corallo, et alibandinis, virides de Smaragdis, pyropis, et chrysolytis, nigri, de onichinis, gagetis, et gerateris.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

[16] It is said that the Association of Social Defence promises its working men members a retaining fee of 3 pesetas a day should political exigencies compel them to leave their work at any time, the average labourer’s wages all over the country being from 1.50 to 2 pesetas.
— from Spain from Within by Rafael Shaw

Portions of Fracastoro's argument have been alluded to before, and it will suffice here to state his own summing up of the aim of the poet, which is this, "Delectare et prodesse imitando in unoquoque maxima et pulcherrima per genus dicendi simpliciter pulchrum ex convenientibus."
— from A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn

ch'e` tanto bella da' suoi piedi e` colei che l'aperse e che la punse.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

Point was given, too, by the enormous dugouts, surpassing previous exhibits, capable of holding a garrison of a thousand men and a hospital which, under the bursts of huge shells of the months of British bombardment, had been safe under ground.
— from My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer