In this sore affliction and misery of our city, the reverend authority of the laws, both human and divine, was all in a manner dissolved and fallen into decay, for [lack of] the ministers and executors thereof, who, like other men, were all either dead or sick or else left so destitute of followers that they were unable to exercise any office, wherefore every one had license to do whatsoever pleased him.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

241.1.7 et les seconds de le régaler quand i[t/l] passait par leur bourg.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Unum est quod silentio committere non possumus nobis [ 58] ex Levitico sanguine descendentibus.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

La persuasión y la discreción del hombre de estado; la sencillez de Cincinato; la impetuosidad del guerrero estoico; la serenidad del hombre inconmovible; la mirada del águila y la garra del león; la bondad de la paloma y la dulzura del ruiseñor:
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

“If it weren’t that I am with you,” remarked Juanito, rolling his eyes like some dolls that are moved by clockwork, and to make the resemblance more real he stuck out his tongue occasionally.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

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 la société de l'information?
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

la tribulación en que se encuentra la señora doña Perfecta... ¡Ay, tío!
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Les rochers du Mazendaran et les sables du Kerman, furent les seuls
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Mais il en est un autre plus subtil, et plus merveilleux qui les anime tous; il est la source de tous nos sentiments, de tous nos plaisirs, de toutes nos passions, de toutes nos pensées; car le cerveau a ses muscles pour penser, comme les jambes pour marcher.
— from Man a Machine by Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Une grande quantité de Bretons se laissèrent conduire en Syrie par ce Moine; et, en 1218, plusieurs Seigneurs Bretons suivirent leur exemple, entre autres, Hervé de Léon, Morvau, Vicomte du Fou, et le Sire de Clisson."
— from A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817 With Notes Taken During a Tour Through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the Environs of Paris. Illustrated with Numerous Coloured Engravings, from Drawings Made on the Spot by W. D. (William Dorset) Fellowes

Audito autem quod archiepiscopus appulsus Cantuariae esset, lora statim diverterunt, ad occidentals maris portus tendentes.'
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

eût été entièrement prémunie contre les éventualités de l’avenir; chacune d’elles acquérait à la fois et l’instruction et la science d’enseignement; Mlle Emily allait apprendre le piano; recevoir les leçons du meilleur professeur que nous ayons en Belgique, et déjà elle avait elle-même de petites élèves; elle perdait donc à la fois un reste d’ignorance et un reste plus gênant encore de timidité; Mlle Charlotte commençait à donner des leçons en français, et d’acquérir cette assurance, cet aplomb si nécessaire dans l’enseignement; encore un an tout au plus et l’œuvre était achevée et bien achevée.
— from The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

A single electric light shone down from the ceiling, creating long, ghostlike shadows as it swayed about in a gentle wind blowing through a broken window.
— from The Call of the Beaver Patrol; Or, A Break in the Glacier by V. T. Sherman

Discourse by Elder Lorenzo Snow, delivered in a meeting of the St. George Stake of Zion, in the Temple, April 5th, 1877; reported by George F. Gibbs.—Necessity for effort.—What the Lord said to Oliver Cowdery.—Regulation of temporal affairs.—Consecration and stewardship.—Preparation for building in Jackson County.—The
— from Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) Snow

It was possible no doubt that her spell might yet be strong enough upon her middle-aged captive to make him ignore and pass over everything that told against her—but, after considering the situation with a keen and close survey of every likelihood, she dismissed that hope.
— from The Sorceress (complete) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant