Postumius cum iterum consules essent, quia, cum male pugnatum apud Caudium esset, legionibus nostris sub iugum missis pacem cum Samnitibus fecerant, dediti sunt iis; iniussu enim populi senatusque fecerant.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

A colored man named Daniel Edwards, lived near Selma, Alabama, and worked for a family of a farmer near that place.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

She eat no meat today, nor none shall eat; Last night she slept not, nor tonight she shall not;
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

“No,” says he, “then I desire you will go to his lodgings immediately after dinner, and see what's the matter with him, for he must certainly be very bad from having eaten last night such a vast quantity of raw oysters.”
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

nor longer cogitate; Thy egress let no scruples dire retard; Contiguous to the portals of thy gate
— from Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7 by Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir

“Why, Adam Woodcock, thou must be grown strangely dainty,” said his old companion; “I have known thee sleep all night with no better pillow than a bush of ling, and start up with the sun, as glegg as a falcon; and now thine eyes resemble——” “Tush, man, what signifies how mine eyes look now?” said Adam—“let us but roast a crab-apple, pour a pottle of ale on it, and bathe our throats withal, thou shalt see a change in me.”
— from The Abbot by Walter Scott

The qualities most esteemed amongst the Cape breeders are,—small head, small ears, large nostril, small muzzle, broad chest, large bone in the leg, short in the cannon and pastern, toes rather turned in than out; well ribbed home (many Dutchmen would not buy a horse that allowed more than four fingers to be placed between the last rib and the hip-bone); broad behind, with the tail set on very high (this last is a spécialité ); cow-hocks are detested.
— from Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

Nous en avons ici qui le valent, et qui se feront un plaisir de perpéteur parmi nous le bon gôut, l'élégance, et la noble simplicité.
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Hence the poet, knowing of similar expeditions to the extremities of Iberia, and having heard of its wealth and other excellencies, (which the Phœnicians had made known,) feigned this to be the region of the Blessed, and the Plain of Elysium, where Proteus informs Menelaus that he is to depart to: “But far hence the gods Will send thee to Elysium, and the earth’s Extremest bounds; there Rhadamanthus dwells, The golden-haired, and there the human kind Enjoy the easiest life; no snow is there, No biting winter, and no drenching shower, But zephyr always gently from the sea Breathes on them to refresh the happy race.”
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Half of us were still laughing—my unfortunate self among the number; this the enraged landlady no sooner perceived than she imagined herself the victim of some preconcerted villainy.
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

V May Thy rule our minds enlighten; Let no sin our lives defile; Fervent faith our spirits brighten, Knowing nought of fraud or guile.
— from Hymns of the Early Church being translations from the poetry of the Latin church, arranged in the order of the Christian year by John Brownlie