El viaje de siete horas en un excelente ferrocarril entre Puerto Limón (notable por su actividad comercial relacionada con el comercio de la banana y del caucho)
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Di bene fecerunt, inopis me quodque pusilli / 30 Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis —The gods be praised for having made me of a poor and humble mind, with a desire to speak but seldom and briefly.
— 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.

The Athenians, for instance, bore an owl in their ensigns (Plutarchus Lysandro), as being sacred to Minerva, the protectress of their city; the Thebans a Sphynx ( idem Pelopidas, Cornelius Nepos, Epaminondas), in memory of the famous monster overcome by Œdipus.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Cámara de Diputados, ejerce el poder legislativo.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

English public school life is extremely like English public life, for which it is the preparatory school.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

ꝓ quat o ho cinque giorni neL mare et poi le meteua vno pocho ſop a le braze et cosi le mangiauamo et ancora aſſay
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

El níquel es plomizo, la plata es blanca, el cobre es cobrizo y el oro es amarillo.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

The carter at once unyoked the oxen and left them to roam at large about the pleasant green spot, the freshness of which seemed to invite, not enchanted people like Don Quixote, but wide-awake, sensible folk like his squire, who begged the curate to allow his master to leave the cage for a little; for if they did not let him out, the prison might not be as clean as the propriety of such a gentleman as his master required.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Ali hanno late, e colli e visi umani, pie` con artigli, e pennuto 'l gran ventre; fanno lamenti in su li alberi strani.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

On receipt of this edict, Pao Lao-yeh liberated Ts’ao Ching-hsiu from the cangue, and allowed him to go free.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

On the right hand wall, side of Wolfe, is a monument to the memory of Bishop Duppa , tutor to Charles II., a man of such exemplary piety, lively conversation, and excess of good nature, that when Charles I. was a prisoner in Carisbrooke Castle, he thought himself happy in the company of so good a man.
— from Historical Description of Westminster Abbey, Its Monuments and Curiosities by Anonymous

Eugene P. Lyle, Jr. Bob Hampton of Placer . . . . . . .
— from The Old Blood by Frederick Palmer

But a noble park spread at the back of the castle hill, through which easy paths led up into the wooded and gently-swelling uplands, offering ideal opportunities for carriage drives and quiet strolls.
— from Royal Highness by Thomas Mann

Tot vos eximii, tot eruditi, Prisci lumina sæculi et recentis, Confecere viri, suasque vobis Ausi credere lucubrationes: Et sperare decus perenne scriptis; Neque hæc irrita spes fefellit illos.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

The view of the same region from the western shore of the Mount's Bay is still more striking and characteristic; the upper surface seems so exactly horizontal, that one might almost be led to conjecture, that every projecting ledge had been planed down until the promontory resembled a great artificial terrace.
— from A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End Comprehending the topography, botany, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mining, mineralogy and geology of West Cornwall by John Ayrton Paris

Johnson, Samuel Jonson, Ben later (comparative of late ) latter (the second) lead (present tense) led (past tense) lessen (verb) lesson (noun) liable (expresses responsibility or disagreeable probability) likely (expresses probability) loose (free, not bound) lose (to suffer the loss of) maintain maintenance nineteenth ninetieth ninety ninth past (adjective, adverb, preposition) passed (verb, past tense) peace (a state of calm) piece (a fragment) perceive perform persevere persuade purchase pursue personal (private, individual) personnel (the body of persons engaged in some activity) Philippines Filipino plain (clear; adjective) plain (flat region; noun) plane (flat; adjective) plane (geometrical term; noun) planed (past tense of plane ) planned (past tense of plan ) pleasant please } these three are the "double e group" precede proceed } succeed } exceed } concede intercede recede supersede pre cé dence (act or right of preceding) préc e dents (things said or done before, now used as authority or model) presence (state of being present) presents (gifts) prevail prevalent principal (chief, leading, the leading official of a school, a sum of money)
— from The Century Handbook of Writing by Easley S. (Easley Stephen) Jones

364 Leaving Lucius Censorinus 365 over the affairs of Greece he crossed to Asia; and when he had touched the wealth there, and kings used to come to his door, and wives of kings vying with one another in their presents and their beauty let themselves be corrupted in order to win his favour, and while Cæsar at Rome was worn out with civil commotions and war, he enjoying perfect leisure and tranquillity was carried back by his passions to his usual habits of life, and
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4) by Plutarch

Her father lives en Prince : like Lucullus, he plundered all Asia to assist him in house-keeping .
— from Munster Village by Hamilton, Mary, Lady