But it is hard to believe that a god or deity could feel the passion of love for a human form; although the Egyptians not unreasonably say, that a woman may be impregnated by the spirit of a god, but that a man can have no material union with a god.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

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

Now, how are we to get those sixteen rows of even numbers under such conditions?
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

He could not understand how that proud and austere beauty could show herself to be such an utter child—a child who probably did not even now understand some words.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

-a(←) n a woman who recruits girls for employment, not usually said of women who recruit for the white slave traffic.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Accordingly, having found a purchaser for his great ship, with the price thereof and that which he had gotten of his wares, he bought a little vessel, light and apt for cruising and arming and garnishing it excellent well with everything needful unto such a service, addressed himself to make his purchase of other men's goods and especially of those of the Turks.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

And you will admit that he has a sufficiently incisive pen? “‘(2) On this Estate there exist no Unmortgaged Souls whatsoever, whether Approaching Death or Otherwise; for the reason that all Souls thereon have been pledged not only under a First Deed of Mortgage, but also (for the sum of One Hundred and Fifty Roubles per Soul) under a Second,—the village of Gurmailovka alone excepted, in that, in consequence of a Suit having been brought against Landowner Priadistchev, and of a caveat having been pronounced by the Land Court, and of such caveat having been published in No. 42 of the Gazette of Moscow, the said Village has come within the Jurisdiction of the Court Above-Mentioned.”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

No encontramos en ella ni un soplo de Shakespeare ni un soplo de Dickens, ni menos, y por fortuna, un soplo de Dumas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

IV , 14-24; 152-61. 1884 Hertz, W. Beowulf, das älteste germanische Epos, Nord und Süd , XXIX , 229-53.
— from Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers

There were seven gifts of the Holy Ghost, seven days in the week, seven sacraments, seven branches on the candlestick of Moses, seven liberal arts, seven churches of Asia, seven mysterious seals, seven stars, seven symbolic trumpets, seven heads of the dragon, seven joys and seven sorrows of the blessed Virgin, seven penitential psalms, seven deadly sins, seven canonical hours, &c. &c. "Septenarius numerus est numerus universitatis," says J. de Voragine.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 139, June 26, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

His plura aut majora de evangelici ministerii et culmine et præcipitio qui expectat, cuique ad resipiscendum non ista sufficiunt, infatuatum se juxta Domini sententiam, et nullo unquam sale saliri posse demonstrat.
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter

Martianus Capella’s definition: “Geometria vocor quod permeatam crebro admensamque tellurem eiusque figuram, magnitudinem, locum, partes et stadia possim cum suis rationibus explicare neque ulla sit in totius terrae diversitate partitio quam non memoris cursu descriptionis absolvam.
— from An encyclopedist of the dark ages: Isidore of Seville by Ernest Brehaut

His train is to assist in the evacuation of some two hundred gravely wounded French soldiers who are threatened by heavy German infantry attacks and are even now under shell fire.
— from The Note-Book of an Attaché: Seven Months in the War Zone by Eric Fisher Wood

But ever near us, silent, cold, Float those who bounded from the bank With eager hearts, like us, and sank Because their feet were overbold.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

I'm going to stay with you every night until she is out of danger.
— from Without a Home by Edward Payson Roe