ejemplar exemplary; m copy, specimen.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The end must come some day, but in the meantime Jack thrives as much as ever; people are glad enough to shake him by the hand, ignore the little dark stories that are whispered every now and then against him, and pronounce him a good-natured, jovial, reckless fellow.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

And that this Aeolic speaking poet was a Boeotian of Ascra seems even more certain, since the tradition is never once disputed, insignificant though the place was, even before its destruction by the Thespians.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Ego maximam curam stomacho delegabo.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Of the eclectic movement combining Sānkhya, Yoga, and Vedānta doctrines, the oldest literary representative is the Çvetāçvatara Upanishad .
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

This relationship is even more clearly seen in the wonderful collection of fossil bones made by MM.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Charbonnier est maître chez soi —A coalheaver's house is his castle.
— 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.

Cum mundus extra se sit, et mente captus sit, et nesciat se languere, ut medelam adhibeat.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Jampridem Syrus in Tiberem defluxit Orontes; Et linguam et mores, &c. Seneca, when he proposes to comfort his mother (Consolat.
— 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

Each Muslim can say the Namáz privately in his own house.
— from The Faith of Islam by Edward Sell

The aspect of the peak was formidable, but its strength was more apparent than real, when it was held by no more than 1,500 irregular troops: for over and above the known paths there were many places where lightly equipped men could scramble, over slopes which were only precipitous in certain sections.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811 Massena's Retreat, Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Tarragona by Charles Oman

Suppose the end of his life were nearer than he thought—the end must come some time—what if it were now?
— from The Mansion by Henry Van Dyke

The truth is, that this is a piece of false refinement : it, being interpreted, means, that so free are the parties from a liability to suspicion, so innately virtuous and pure are they, that each man can safely trust his wife with another man, and each woman her husband with another woman.
— from Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. by William Cobbett

"I suppose nobody could expect more, Cynthy," said Mrs. John Joe deprecatingly.
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

No man ever more carefully studied the operation of his own mind and the intellectual character of others."
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Reformation by John Lord

In Rychmond wes thar wonnand then Ane Erll men callit Schir Thomas .
— from The Bruce by John Barbour

A little to the right, but in plain sight of this second-floor window, stretched the old-fashioned country graveyard—not yet sufficiently dignified to be called a “cemetery”—and Mr. Eliot’s eyes might clearly see a white mausoleum, which he had built years before, to contain his body when he had passed from life.
— from The Daring Twins: A Story for Young Folk by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum