INTRODUCTION E Americans devour eagerly any piece of writing that purports to tell us the secret of success in life; yet how often we are disappointed to find nothing but commonplace statements, or receipts that we know by heart but never follow.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

[Pg 356] 5. ¶When Cinna had put in force again the law regarding the return of exiles, Marius and the rest of his followers who had been expelled leaped into the city with the army left to them by all the gates at once; these they shut, so that no one could make his escape, and despatched every man they met, making no distinction, but treating them all alike as enemies.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Yet he took this document very seriously, and his mind was prepared for just such an end as did eventually overtake him.”
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

omnia quæ subierant per ejus absentiam damna et jacturas, videlicet in hispitiis locandis, in mercimoniis, in usuris, in redditibus, in provisionibus, et in aliis modis innumerabilibus.
— 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

It was here then, near the embouchure of the modern Canadian Humber, that "our Englishmen," as Denonville expressed himself, crossing over on illicit errands from Governor Dongan's [4] domain to that of the King of France, were to find "somebody to speak to."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

huge Enfil, n. an animal, a beast Enfyged, n. worship, aspect Enfysg, n. rainbow Enhuddaw, v. to envelope Enhuddawl, a. envelope Enhudded, n. envelopment Enhuddiad, n. an enveloping Enhued, n. follower of the chase Eni, v. to exert the soul Eniain, a. temperature; a. very clear; intense Enid, n. wood lark; chaffinch Enig, a. full of spirits Eniwaid, n. damage, harm Eniwaw, v. to endamage Eniwawl, a. hurtful, noxious Eniwed, n. damage, harm Eniwedu, v. to damage Eniweidiad, n. a damaging Eniweidio, v. to endamage Enllib, n. slander, calumny Enllibiad, n. a slandering Enllibio, v. to slander Enllibiol, a. calumnious Enllibiwr, n. a slanderer, a defamer Enllibus, a. contumelious Enllyn, n. victuals, meat Enllynu, v. to moisten food Ennill, n. advantage, gain: v. to get advantage Ennillgar, a. advantageous Ennilliad, n. a gaining Ennyd, n. a while, a space leisure; spare time Ennyn, n. a kindling: v. to kindle, to burn Ennyniad, n. a kindling Ennynol, a. tending to kindle Ennynu, v. to kindle, to inflame Enrhy, n. abundance, much Enrhyal, n. breed, increase Enrhyfedd, a. wonderful, strange Enrhyfeddu, v. to marvel Enserth, n. a slip: a. slippery Entraw, n. a teacher, a master Entrew, n. sneeze: a snort Entrewi, v. to sternutate Entrewiad, n. sternutation Entrych, n. the firmament Enw, n. name, appellation Enwad, n. a naming Enwadol, a. denominative Enwaered, a. very low; prone Enwai, n. nominative case Enwaid, a. having a name Enwaidedig, a. circumsised Enwaidiad, n. circumcision Enwaidio, v. to circumcise Enwaidiwr, n. a circumsiser Enwair, a. full of energy Enwaisg, a. very brisk or gay Enwawd, n. nomination Enwedig, a. specified, especial Enwedigaeth, n. specification Enwedigo, v. to specify Enwedigol, a. especial Enweirus, a. energetic Enwi, v. to name, to entitle Enwir, a. very true; perfect Enwog, a. renowned, famous Enwogi, v. to make renowned Enwogrwydd, n. renownedness Enwol, a. nominal, naming Enwyll, n. very wild Enwyn, a. very white, also buttermilk Enycha, interj.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

entra en la escena lentamente:) (Don Juan, muffled to the eyes and distraught, enters the stage slowly.) DON JUAN: Culpa mía
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Thanks to the supineness of the enemy, the army escaped all disorder, except that arising from a few detachments following corps to which they did not belong.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

no se distinguían bien los semblantes, creyó ver en alguno de ellos señales de amarga consternación.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Lusisti satis, edisti satis, atque bibisti; / Tempus abire tibi est —Thou hast amused thyself enough, hast eaten and drunk enough; 'tis time for thee to depart.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

20-21), “Euemerus exequitur Deorum natales: patrias, sepulcra dinumerat, et per provincias monstrat, Dictæi Jovis, et Apollinis Delphici, et Phariæ Isidis, et Cereris Eleusiniæ.”
— from History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12) by George Grote

In the annals of the monasteries and cathedrals, many of the churchmen, such as Meinwerk of Paderborn, Godehard of Kildesheim, and others, are brought vividly before our eyes; and descriptions exist of several of the German emperors, modelled after old authors—particularly Suetonius—which contain admirable features.
— from The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt

—Everybody is still talking of nothing but the coronation; the Duke of Devonshire's return on foot all splashed with mud; the acts, words, and appearance of everyone are discussed, embellished, distorted, and reviewed with more or less charity: that is to say, with no charity at all.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1831-1835 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

While the half-clad and half-starved revolutionary armies fought their desperate battles of the Rhine and Italy and Belgium and Egypt, and defeated every one of the enemies of the Great Revolution, five Directors were appointed, and they ruled France for four years.
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Hence we may state the rule: If two events are dependent each on another, so that if one occur the second may (or may not), and if the second a third; whilst the third never occurs without the second, nor the second without the first; the probability that if the first occur the third will, is found by multiplying together the fractions expressing the probability that the first is a mark of the second and the second of the third.
— from Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

At the very moment when Theo was preparing to deliver the crucial sentence on which hung the whole construction of the plot—in that thrilling moment wherein she paused and drew breath, the better to deliver it with due emphasis and dramatic effect—an anxious voice claimed precedence and cried loudly: “ Hope !
— from The Daughters of a Genius by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

This time his trunk was really brought down from the box room; his old trunk, such as professors use in the provinces, with as much ironwork in the way of nails and hinges as might have sufficed for a church door, and high enough and deep enough to have held the enormous manuscript of ‘Marcus Aurelius’ together with all the dreams of glory and all the ambitious hopes of an historian on the high road to the Académie.
— from The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by Alphonse Daudet

Into this solitude, into this startling and public seclusion, incapable of sustaining a fall so complete, after a long habit of attaining everything, and doing everything he pleased, of being the idol of the world, of the Court, of the armies, of making his very vices adored, and his greatest faults admired, his defects commended, so that he dared to conceive the prodigious design of ruining and destroying the necessary heir of the Crown, though he had never received anything but evidences of tenderness from him, and triumphed over him for eight months with the most scandalous success; it was, I say, thus that this Colossus was overthrown by the breath of a prudent and courageous princess, who earned by this act merited applause.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

But the fiery Julius, aged seventy-four, was influenced by the architect Bramante to demand from Michelangelo a bill of expense and definite explanation as to details.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters by Elbert Hubbard