E flamma cibum petere —To live by desperate means ( lit. to seek food from the flames).
— 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.

Nunquam est fidelis cum potente societas —An alliance with a powerful man is never safe.
— 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.

This uncertainty results either from circumstances prior to the battle, from ignorance of the enemy's position and plans, or from the fact that a portion of the army may be still expected to arrive on the field.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Oh, were there not a spirit in the word of man, as in man himself, that survived the audible bodied word, and tended either Godward, or else Devilward for evermore, why should he trouble himself much with the truth of it, or the falsehood of it, except for commercial purposes?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Every region of the body exhibits fixed character proper to its surface.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

[John Mark Ockerbloom EN FR / Caoimhín P. Ó Donnaíle EN FR] [#P]
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Machiavelli, the great reader of the human heart, said: la natura degli huomini, é cosi obligarsi per li beneficii che essi fanno, come per quelli che essi ricevono (it is human nature to be bound as much by benefits conferred as by those received).
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

How every fool can play upon the word!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

preadamite[obs3], Methuselah, Nestor, old Parr; elders; forefathers &c. (paternity) 166.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

This time there was no possibility of error, for Colonel Piron had sent the accord with the garrison commanders of the forts which had been so shamefully violated, and which bore the signature of the archduke.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

"That is true," Loyal Heart observed; "but the dangers that men such as we can bear, it would be unjust and cruel to inflict on a woman,—a maiden who has hardly emerged from childhood, and whose life has hitherto passed exempt from care, privations, or fatigue of any description."
— from The Freebooters: A Story of the Texan War by Gustave Aimard

It was a heady evening for Chauncey Patrick Coffin, M.D. Certain others were not so delighted with Coffin's bombshell.
— from The Coffin Cure by Alan Edward Nourse

Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals, petroleum products, construction materials Imports - partners: France 39%, US 6%, Cameroon 5%, Netherlands 5%, Cote d'Ivoire, Japan (1998)
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Photo-Lithographed by Rob^t J Cook & Hammond Charing Cross & Westminster E. F. C. Prontis Del. URNS IN THE CHURCH AND CRYPT.
— from Cremation of the Dead: Its History and Bearings Upon Public Health by William Eassie

This new Parliament met the 30th day of November, when the King was advised to inform them, among other things, "that a most daring spirit of resistance and disobedience to the laws unhappily prevailed in the province of Massachusetts, and had broken forth in fresh violences of a very criminal nature; that these proceedings had been countenanced and encouraged in his other colonies; that unwarrantable attempts had been made to obstruct the commerce of his kingdom by unlawful combinations; and that he had taken such measures and given such orders as he judged most proper and effectual for carrying [Pg 420] into execution the laws which were passed in the last session of the late Parliament relative to the province of Massachusetts."
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

Whereas there is no difficulty in conceiving that a creature adapted to live in the depths of the ocean could breathe readily enough at the surface, even for considerable periods; for we know that fish of many kinds, and notably carp, can retain life for days, and even weeks, when removed from the water, provided they happen to be in a moist situation.
— from Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould

The entire free colored population of the United States were opposed to the expatriating project.
— from Discussion on American Slavery by Robert J. (Robert Jefferson) Breckinridge

ROYAL CHARITIES AND VISITS Toward the end of the year it was announced in the British Medical Journal that a gentleman who did not at present wish his name disclosed—afterwards understood to be Sir Ernest Cassel—had presented the King with a donation of £200,000 for some philanthropic purpose to be selected, and that His Majesty had decided to devote the money to the erection of a Sanatorium in England for Consumptive patients.
— from The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins