Thus madly he runs on: sparkles leap out from all his blazing face, and his keen eyes flash fire: even as the bull when before his first fight he bellows awfully, and drives against a tree's trunk to make trial of his angry horns, and buffets the air with blows or scatters the sand in prelude of battle.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

I have enough faith for everything but the snakes.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Entry from first edition: scrād a moving body ?
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

They created capital, for they always had funds to dispose of, even in the midst of the most terrible public calamities, and, when all other means were exhausted, when all expedients for filling empty purses had been resorted to without success, the Jews were called in.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Once when some one asked her to define "love," she replied, "Why, bless you, that is easy; it is what everybody feels for everybody else.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

It was terrible to his pride to think of descending so low; and yet, for the girl's sake he might put up with anything; even from Farfrae; even snubbings and masterful tongue-scourgings.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

ferēbam ferēbar Fut. feram, ferēs, etc. ferar, ferēris, etc. Perf.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The Northern Review , after publishing “The Cradle of Beauty,” had written him for half a dozen similar essays, which would have been supplied out of the heap, had not Burton’s Magazine , in a speculative mood, offered him five hundred dollars each for five essays.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

In chapter xi this x quantity, augmented by whatever else is to be elicited from further evidence, will be specifically discussed.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Real, passionate love is as rare as the meeting of two people exactly fitted for each other.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

En 1687, après la mort de Colbert, la cour soldait encore l'industrie des barbares, et faisait fabriquer et broder ses plus beaux habits à Constantinople.’
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

It gave to the bodies of custom which were formed throughout Europe far fewer express rules than did the Roman law, but then it seems to have communicated a bias to professional opinion on a surprising number of fundamental points, and the tendencies thus produced progressively gained strength as each system was developed.
— from Ancient Law: Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Maine, Henry Sumner, Sir

Ruz (since 2 December 1976) *Cuba, Government Member of: CCC, ECLAC, FAO, G-77, GATT, IAEA, ICAO, IFAD, ILO, IMO, INMARSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, ISO, ITU, LAES, LAIA (observer), LORCS, NAM, OAS (excluded from formal participation since 1962), PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCL, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO Diplomatic representation in US: chief of mission: Principal Officer Alfonso FRAGA Perez (since August 1992) chancery: 2630 and 2639 16th Street NW, US Interests Section, Swiss Embassy, Washington, DC 20009 telephone: (202) 797-8518 or 8519, 8520, 8609, 8610 US diplomatic representation: chief of mission: Principal Officer Alan H. FLANIGAN US Interests Section: USINT, Swiss Embassy, Calzada entre L Y M, Vedado Seccion, Havana mailing address: USINT, Swiss Embassy, Calzada Entre L Y M, Vedado, Havava telephone: 32-0051, 32-0543 FAX: no service available at this time note: protecting power in Cuba is Switzerland - US Interests Section, Swiss Embassy Flag: five equal horizontal bands of blue (top and bottom) alternating with white; a red equilateral triangle based on the hoist side bears a white five-pointed star in the center *Cuba, Economy Overview: Since Castro's takeover of Cuba in 1959, the economy has been run in the Soviet style of government ownership of substantially all the means of production and government planning of all but the smallest details of economic activity.
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

T. S. Cocks, Jun. Esq., M. P. G. H. Drew, Esq. W. Evans, Esq. W. Freeman, Esq. F. Fuller, Esq.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Dee, on the other hand, was emphatic in claiming mare clausum and an exclusive fishing for Englishmen, and in urging heavy taxation of foreigners who fished in the British seas.
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

“But how strange it seems, you who are yet young, healthy, with every faculty for enjoyment, and a millionaire.”
— from The Doings of Raffles Haw by Arthur Conan Doyle

[750] The commissioner has therefore adopted another method of comparison, not entirely free from error, based on the estimated number of existing married couples.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

But even supposing that it were not entirely free from either, it would still surely be preferable to give the patient at least a chance of prolonging his life, rather than to permit a fatal affection to run its uninterrupted course, which we know can, at best, be calculated by months only.
— from Jaundice: Its Pathology and Treatment With the Application of Physiological Chemistry to the Detection and Treatment of Diseases of the Liver and Pancreas by George Harley

The streets were a confusion of many colors, and eager faces filled every window opening on Main Street or the Square.
— from The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington

The story was told in the town of Bidwell, and as the entire French family except Ezra swore to its truth, was generally believed.
— from Poor White: A Novel by Sherwood Anderson