[24] As the letters of Vives are not in every library, we give his comico-pathetic account of the result of his Augustinian labours on his health: "Ex quo Augustinum perfeci, nunquam valui ex sententia; proximâ vero hebdomade et hac, fracto corpore cuncto, et nervis lassitudine quadam et debilitate dejectis, in caput decem turres incumbere mihi videntur incidendo pondere, ac mole intolerabili; isti sunt fructus studiorum, et merces pulcherrimi laboris; quid labor et benefacta juvant?"
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Estoy muy interesado en el desarrollo de Internet como medio de comunicación de masa durante los próximos años.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Exurgat Deus, dissipentur inimici , &c.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The word “cue,” as proved by the English Dialect Dictionary , is common in the Southern and Western counties.
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson

The infusion forms an excellent demulcent drink in catarrhs.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Pô et du Danube (in conjunction with S. Reinach); D’Arbois de Jubainville, Les Premiers Habitants de l’Europe (second edition, Paris, 1894); Fustel de Coulanges, Institutions politiques de l’ancienne France (Paris, 1891); Karl Müllenhoff, Deutsche Altertumskunde , Bde. I. and II.; Zupitza, “Kelten und Gallier,” Zeitschrift für keltische Philologie , 1902.
— from The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor

It was easier to dawdle than to fight or even do duty in camp: it was more pleasant to bask in the admiring smiles of silly girls who should have turned their eyes into basilisks to blast the indolent and miserable cowards—than to dare the July sun on the banks of the James, or run the risk of a flash from the enemy's cannon.
— from Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Henry Morford

But he—like many more—longed for the peace of the hermit’s cell; and near Tours, between the river Loire and lofty cliffs, he hid himself in a hut of branches, while his eighty disciples dwelt in caves of the rocks above, clothed only in skins of camels.
— from The Hermits by Charles Kingsley

They were at length "fairly beaten to powder" by Albert the Bear, "and either swept away or else damped down into Christianity and keeping of the peace," though remnants of them, with their language and customs, exist in Lusatia to this day.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall