The extensive use of bordures, charged and uncharged, in Scotland, which figure sometimes round the sub-quarters, sometimes round the grand quarters, and sometimes round the entire escutcheon, causes so much confusion that for the purposes of blazoning it is essential that the difference between quarters and grand quarters should be clearly defined.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Me cuesta trabajo imaginar que veremos muy pronto instrumentos capaces de traducir las subtilezas del modo de pensar propias de un país: en este caso se debería, no sólo traducir el lenguaje sino de establecer pasarelas de sensibilidad.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Et si non habeo sensum, tua gratia sensum Exhibet, et calidi sentio amoris onus.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

There is also the old Berkshire story of the old witch who lived in a cave by the roadside, and who, by the power of her “evil eye,” could stop the strongest team of horses, so that, however much the carters lashed and swore at them, the animals would not budge an inch until she permitted them to go.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

30 ( return ) [ Nunc autem veniunt plerumque ad hanc professionem servitutis Dei, et ex conditione servili, vel etiam liberati, vel propter hoc a Dominis liberati sive liberandi; et ex vita rusticana et ex opificum exercitatione, et plebeio labore.
— 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

Comb. : est del , the east, S2; estward , eastward; C2; see Eest .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

ii. ), ed. 1690, pp. 230, 231.: "Sæpius excusum est Consilium sequens, cum alibi, tum hic Londini, A.D. 1609, ex bibliothecâ Wilh.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 224, February 11, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

To that extent each customer should be considered by the salesman as an intimate friend and should be served accordingly.
— from Retail Shoe Salesmanship by Frank Butterworth

Every evening—every evening?" Cyril stared excessively.
— from Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

But alas! I had explored every corner, save only the room that was shut in by the Golden Door, and I had no longer anything to amuse myself with.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Then she heard the sweet, solemn strains of the wedding hymn, and she felt rather than saw Vansittart, his manly form erect, even commanding, standing at the altar awaiting her, his eyes fixed gravely on her, compelling her by some mesmeric influence to be calm.
— from A Woman Martyr by Alice M. (Alice Mangold) Diehl

In any city, one who has an experienced eye can scarcely walk a dozen blocks on busy streets without encountering the woeful effects of sexual transgression.
— from Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg

80 This application was successful; and Dryden elsewhere expresses his gratitude, that his wants were attended to, and relieved during the penury of an exhausted Exchequer; Cowley’s simile, he observed, was reversed, and Gideon’s fleece was watered, while all around remained parched and arid.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18 Dialogue concerning Women; Characters; Life of Lucian; Letters; Appendix; Index by John Dryden

Homo extra est corpus suum cum irascitur —A 15 man when angry is beside himself.
— 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.