Phr. auctor pretiosa facit[Lat]; ex dono[Lat]; res est ingeniosa dare [Lat][Ovid].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

N'Aie, Ector, Roll' ne Ogiers Ne Judas Machabeus li fiers Tant ne fit d'armes en estors Com fist li Rois Jehans cel jors Et il defors et il dedans La paru sa force et ses sens Et li hardiment qu'il avoit.]
— 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

The sympathetic charm of half-light effects is due largely to the tones being of this middle range only; whereas the striking dramatic effect of a storm clearing, in which you may get a landscape brilliantly lit by the sudden appearance of the sun, seen against the dark clouds of the retreating storm, owes much of its dramatic quality to contrast.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

D. Bonifacio.—Lo que necesito hoy es que tú, que sabes tanto y que por tanto saber eres intérprete de la plaza, me traduzcas al español este documento.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

How can we tell whether a noun in -er is declined like puer or like ager ? 269 Decline bonus , līber , pulcher .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

—Hace un cuarto de siglo ese instrumento de labranza fué substituido por el arado de acero, tirado por caballos, a fin de obtener un trabajo más rápido.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Das Geeinte zu entzweien, das Entzweite zu einigen, ist das Leben der Natur —Dividing the united, uniting the divided, is the life of Nature.
— 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.

I am convinced that Helen's use of English is due largely to her familiarity with books.
— 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

Le bonheur n'est pas chose aisée; il est très-difficile de le trouver en nous, et impossible de le trouver ailleurs —Happiness is no easy matter; it is very hard to find it within ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.
— 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.

Abroad, everything in domestic life is systematized; and services of any grade, up to that of housekeeper or steward, can be secured for money, and for a moderate amount of that.
— from Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

In some editions the above is expressed in different language—(From Parkman's Old Regime , p. 270.)
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

Plenipotentiarius Extraordinarius Rebus, non Britanniae tantùm, sed totius fere Europae (Tunc temporis praesertim arduis) per annos V. incubuit, Quam felici diligentia, fide quam intemerata, Ex illo discas, Lector, quod, superstite patre,
— from The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Jonathan Swift

When the recorder of Ephesus had ended his speech he dismissed the assembly, leaving to us a precious record illustrative of the methods of Roman government, of the interior life of Ephesus in days long gone by, and, above all else, of the thorough honesty of the writer whom the Holy Spirit impelled to trace the earliest triumphs of the Cross amid the teeming fields of Gentile paganism.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 2 by George Thomas Stokes

His address was cold and formal—the very contrast to his feelings—and extremely ill done likewise; Emma, chilled by the reception so different to what she had ventured to expect, began to fear her own manners had been too openly indicative of pleasure at the sight of him; and determined to correct this error she almost immediately followed Lady Gordon, who had sauntered towards the conservatory.
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3 by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback

Other stories of Elijah: D. Cassel, Elia in der Legende , in Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums , 1892, Feb. 26, p. 104, and March 6, p. 115; Urquell , Vol.
— from The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century by Leo Wiener

A few minutes afterwards they sat side by side in Vaviloff's parlour, and the Captain was engaged in drinking large quantities of beer.
— from Creatures That Once Were Men by Maksim Gorky