Id filiae quoque uxorique praeceperim, sic patris, sic mariti memoriam venerari, ut omnia facta dictaque eius secum revolvant, formamque ac figuram animi magis quam corporis complectantur, non quia intercedendum putem imaginibus quae marmore aut aere finguntur, sed, ut vultus hominum, ita simulacra vultus imbecilla ac mortalia sunt, forma mentis aeterna, quam tenere et exprimere non per alienam materiam et artem, sed tuis ipse moribus possis.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Evidently not pleased at my taking him from agreeable company, he comes to me and stands before me in the attitude of a man who has no time to spare.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

O my uncle Mr. Toby Shandy do I stand indebted for the preceding anecdote, to whom my father, who was 6 an excellent natural philosopher, and much given to close reasoning upon the smallest matters, had oft, and heavily complained of the injury; but once more particularly, as my uncle Toby well remember’d, upon his observing a most unaccountable obliquity, (as he call’d it) in my manner of setting up my top, and justifying the principles upon which I had done it,—the old gentleman shook his head, and in a tone more expressive by half of sorrow than reproach,—he said his heart all along foreboded, and he saw it verified in this, and from a thousand other observations he had made upon me, That I should neither think nor act like any other man’s child:—
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

In altâ puppe stâbat gubernâtor et nôn procul aliquî mîlitês Rômânî cum armîs splendidîs, inter quôs clârissimus erat Lentulus.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

XIV.— Philautia, or Self-love, Vainglory, Praise, Honour, Immoderate Applause, Pride, overmuch Joy, &c., Causes . Self-love, pride, and vainglory, [1903] caecus amor sui , which Chrysostom calls one of the devil's three great nets; [1904] Bernard, an arrow which pierceth the soul through, and slays it; a sly, insensible enemy, not perceived, are main causes.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

If he be a man of extraordinary parts, they will flock afar off to hear him, as they did in Apuleius, to see Psyche: multi mortales confluebant ad videndum saeculi decus, speculum gloriosum, laudatur ab omnibus, spectatur ob omnibus, nec quisquam non rex, non regius, cupidus ejus nuptiarium petitor accedit; mirantur quidem divinam formam omnes, sed ut simulacrum fabre politum mirantur ; many mortal men came to see fair Psyche the glory of her age, they did admire her, commend, desire her for her divine beauty, and gaze upon her; but as on a picture; none would marry her, quod indotato , fair Psyche had no money.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

To my uncle Mr. Toby Shandy do I stand indebted for the preceding anecdote, to whom my father, who was an excellent natural philosopher, and much given to close reasoning upon the smallest matters, had oft, and heavily complained of the injury; but once more particularly, as my uncle Toby well remember'd, upon his observing a most unaccountable obliquity, (as he call'd it) in my manner of setting up my top, and justifying the principles upon which I had done it,—the old gentleman shook his head, and in a tone more expressive by half of sorrow than reproach,—he said his heart all along foreboded, and he saw it verified in this, and from a thousand other observations he had made upon me, That I should neither think nor act like any other man's child:—But alas!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

[6072] Ipse miser docui, quo posset ludere pacto Custodes, eheu nunc premor arte mea.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In altā puppe stābat gubernātor et nōn procul aliquī mīlitēs Rōmānī cum armīs splendidīs, inter quōs clārissimus erat Lentulus.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Every noble, prince, and merchant sought to obtain the royal favor by gifts thus presented, it being fully understood between the giver and receiver that whoever gave the most costly presents should receive the largest share of royal patronage and support.
— from The Romance of the Harem by Anna Harriette Leonowens

Even now prompt action might perhaps have saved the Chamber.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

It is the favorite resort of all classes who have leisure in the after part of the day, and is enlivened three or four times each week by the presence of a military band, which discourses the choicest music to ears ever ready for this sort of entertainment: no people are more fond of music than the Italians.
— from Foot-prints of Travel; Or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Maturin Murray Ballou

“It is our lives here only that we must think about, for the sake of those who even now, perhaps, are mourning us as dead.”
— from Winter Adventures of Three Boys in the Great Lone Land by Egerton Ryerson Young

21, 22, 23, 24: God destroyed euery thing that was vpon the earth from man to beast, to the creeping thing, and to the foule of the heaven, onely the fishes [Pg 67] escaped, and the reason one rendreth was because the sea onely was undefiled at that tyme; there was then noe sayling upon that element, noe pyracie and murder committed upon it, noe forrein invasion intended over it, noe trafficque with the nations for straunge comodities, nor for one an others synnes and vices; all the other creatures were polluted by man, and were [to] be purged with TN: Space added between "that" and "floud" that floud.
— from Diary of John Manningham Of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent, Barrister‑at‑Law, 1602-1603 by John Manningham

Could we have debated Hamlet's question before we were conceived, the answer might well have been doubtful; or rather reason, not serving any prior instinct, could have expressed no preference and must have left the decision to chance.
— from Soliloquies in England, and Later Soliloquies by George Santayana

To read the history of kings, a man would be almost inclined to suppose that government consisted in stag hunting, and that every nation paid a million a year to the huntsman.
— from Junius Unmasked Or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence by Joel Moody

"But, [66] putting the question aside, I thought the Dodsons extremely nice people, and Mr. Leicester Dodson a well-informed person."
— from The Spider and the Fly; or, An Undesired Love by Charles Garvice