These filed in about nine o'clock, their vermiculated horns lopping gracefully on each side of their cheeks in geometrically perfect spirals, a small pink and white ear nestling under each horn.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Est enim nihil utile, quod idem non honestum, nec, quia utile, honestum, sed, quia honestum, utile.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

She will not ruth or gentle pity show, But lay her boar-spear down, and with austere Relentless fingers string the cornel bow, p. 125 And draw the feathered notch against her breast, And loose the archèd cord; aye, even now upon the quest I hear her hurrying feet,—awake, awake,
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

Incident to this point is, for a state to have those 191 laws or customs which may reach forth unto them just occasions (as may be pretended) of war; for there is that justice imprinted in the nature of men, that they enter not upon wars (whereof
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Vita bestial mi piacque e non umana, si` come a mul ch'i' fui; son Vanni Fucci bestia, e Pistoia mi fu degna tana>>.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

clavó en nosotros una larga
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

I am one: I met him even now, upon that he calls his delicate fine black horse, rid into a foam, with posting from place to place, and person to person, to give them the cue— CLER:
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

In this period the revolt against classicism is shown in the revival of romantic poetry under Gray, Collins, Burns, and Thomson, and in the beginning of the English novel under Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, / Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues.
— 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.

Keitel was present at the meeting at the chancellery on the 23rd of May 1939, Document L-79, Exhibit Number USA-27, when it was said—just a few words so familiar: Danzig was not the subject of the dispute; Poland was to be attacked at the first suitable opportunity; Dutch and Belgian air bases must be occupied; declarations of neutrality were to be ignored.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 5 by Various

In the end, Netherby usually received a card for any function that was going, always excepting such—formal dinner parties and the like—as necessitated inviting Albert Clegg.
— from The Willing Horse: A Novel by Ian Hay

But Weston's thoughts were evidently not unpleasant, and when he at length picked up his hat and left the house he was in an excellent frame of mind.
— from Glen of the High North by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody

I now offer Document 3462-PS as exhibit next in order, Exhibit Number USA-528.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 4 by Various

The manager, or major-domo , told us that the herds on those estates numbered upwards of 200,000 head of cattle.
— from Down the Orinoco in a Canoe by Santiago Pérez Triana

For half-a-dozen tides each month, three in the middle of each neap, unless there were heavy winds from the south-west, Isle Rathan became a tidal island, and the ridge could be crossed on foot by those who made haste.
— from Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

The lectures appear to have been illustrated by a plate having two figures of a simple apparatus used to demonstrate the action of a spring and two unequal weights; also an inflexible ruler suspended between two unequal balls—with both he experimented before his auditors; but the engraving is wanting in the edition now used.
— from Perpetual Motion by Percy Verance

The secret was, however, evidently not unknown to some faithful servants of the king; for when, in 1647, his Majesty at Hampton Court desired to see a particular pamphlet, it was obtained for him from this collection, though the collector was somewhat chary of the loan, fearing the loss of what he felt as a limb of his body, not probably recoverable.
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

That is Exhibit Number USA-258.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 5 by Various

I offer it in evidence as Exhibit Number USA-474 (Document Number USA-474).
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 4 by Various