, ut imbelles timidique videamur, sed fugiendum illud etiam, ne offeramus nos periculis sine causa, quo esse nihil potest stultius.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Oh, he knew that even now Pyotr Stepanovitch might ruin him if it came to the worst.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nunc ager Umbreni sub nomine, nuper Ofelli Dictus erat, nulli proprius, sed cedit in usum Nunc mihi, nunc aliis;——— The farm, once mine, now bears Umbrenus' name; The use alone, not property, we claim; Then be not with your present lot depressed, And meet the future with undaunted breast; as he said then, ager cujus, quot habes Dominos ?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[15] be part of our business to investigate: but we may perhaps say that prima facie the only two ends which have a strongly and widely supported claim to be regarded as rational ultimate ends are the two just mentioned, Happiness and Perfection or Excellence of human nature—meaning here by ‘Excellence’ not primarily superiority to others, but a partial realisation of, or approximation to, an ideal type of human Perfection.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

And then, as I continue to trace the outward course of these impressions from their close-packed intimate source in my consciousness, and before I come to the horizon of reality which envelops them, I discover pleasures of another kind, those of being comfortably seated, of tasting the good scent on the air, of not being disturbed by any visitor; and, when an hour chimed from the steeple of Saint-Hilaire, of watching what was already spent of the afternoon fall drop by drop until I heard the last stroke which enabled me to add up the total sum, after which the silence that followed seemed to herald the beginning, in the blue sky above me, of that long part of the day still allowed me for reading, until the good dinner which Françoise was even now preparing should come to strengthen and refresh me after the strenuous pursuit of its hero through the pages of my book.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Muchas casas en nuestro país son de madera.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

—¿Sabes lo que me decía Rosario esta mañana?—indicó doña Perfecta, fija la vista en su sobrino,—Pues me decía 5 que tú, como hombre hecho a las pompas y etiquetas de la corte y a las modas del extranjero, no podrás soportar esta sencillez un poco rústica con que vivimos y esta falta de buen tono, pues aquí todo es a la pata la llana.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

She’s an excitable, nervous person: she construed her dream into an apparition, or something of that sort, no doubt; and has taken a fit with fright.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

But the present state of things cannot continue for ever; and even now promising signs of amendment are not wanting.
— from Rambles in Istria, Dalmatia and Montenegro by R. H. R.

There exists no personal security of property.
— from Select Speeches of Kossuth by Lajos Kossuth

No covering was so thick as to bound his eye; no pretence so glittering as to impose upon his understanding.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

"Yassah, she's sufferin' fum a little spell er nervous prosperity, sah—dat's all—sah——" "Oh, that's all?" "Yassah."
— from The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

Sic enim Deus dilexit mundum, ut Filium suum unigenitum daret: ut omnis, qui credit in eum, non pereat, sed habeat vitam aeternam.
— from The Gospel of St. John by Joseph MacRory

19:26 "'You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it; neither shall you use enchantments, nor practice sorcery. 19:27
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

In fact the reverse maxim has been formed, namely, that psychical processes should not be held as decisive for the principles that condition them, but rather that the laws of nature, founded upon external natural phenomena, should also rule our mental life.
— from An Introduction to Psychology Translated from the Second German Edition by Wilhelm Max Wundt

The epidemic nervous patient says, ‘I won’t be smoked under my own nose!’
— from Armadale by Wilkie Collins