Ut solent hirundines et ranae prae frigoris magnitudine mori, et postea redeunte vere 24.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Brutus, quia reges ejecit, consul primus factus est: Hic, quia consules ejecit, rex postremo factus est.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

After passing through this phase of the cavernous way, we suddenly came, about a mile farther on, upon a square system of arch, adopted by the early Romans, projecting from the solid rock, and keeping up the weight of the roof.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

I went down to the native town, where I found many of the houses shut up, and at others everything ready packed for removal.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

So spake the old Serpent doubting, and from all With clamour was assur'd thir utmost aid At his command; when from amidst them rose Belial the dissolutest Spirit that fell 150 The sensuallest, and after Asmodai The fleshliest Incubus, and thus advis'd. Set women in his eye and in his walk, Among daughters of men the fairest found; Many are in each Region passing fair As the noon Skie; more like to Goddesses Then Mortal Creatures, graceful and discreet, Expert in amorous Arts, enchanting tongues Perswasive, Virgin majesty with mild And sweet allay'd, yet terrible to approach, 160 Skill'd to retire, and in retiring draw Hearts after them tangl'd in Amorous Nets.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Plaidoyer VI is entitled Pour un fils mis en religion par force , and on the first page occurs the word répandre: "Dieu qui répand des aveuglements et des ténèbres sur les passions illégitimes.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Not that the spirit of each rapid passion failed, at any time, to throw its own distinct image upon the mirror of that face—but that the mirror, mirror-like, retained no vestige of the passion, when the passion had departed.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Todos viven: el reverendo padre franciscano, redondo, satisfecho, regordete, con la unción en el semblante, que da la digestión tranquila; el zambito físico , paquete, sonriente y decidor; el indio paciente y manso.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

On the 20th of this month (September, 1911) it will be just twenty-two years since Edwards received payment for his first story.
— from The Fiction Factory Being the experience of a writer who, for twenty-two years, has kept a story-mill grinding successfully by William Wallace Cook

Nowhere else, as has already been indicated by various writers, is the temptation stronger to give to the expressions “relationship, production from a common fundamental form,” and the like, more than a mere figurative signification, than in the case of the lower Crustacea.
— from Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Fritz Müller

The modern principle of energy results primarily from a substantial conception of work and of every change of physical condition which by being reversed produces work.
— from Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach

These men, supported by the artillery and a few infantry, succeeded at last in getting so many boats launched that the Rebels concluded it was time to quit bothering them any longer, when, all at once, every Rebel popped from behind his rifle-pits, took to his heels and ran for dear life across the plain toward the hills.
— from The Boy Spy A substantially true record of secret service during the war of the rebellion, a correct account of events witnessed by a soldier by Joseph Orton Kerbey

The thirteenth century was fruitful in false Messiahs; there appeared seven or eight in Arabia, Persia, Spain, and Moravia; one of them, calling himself David el Roy, passed for a very great magician; he reduced the Jews, and was at the head of a considerable party; but this Messiah was assassinated.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 07 by Voltaire

See the very curious book, entitled Vida y Virtudes del Venerable Siervo de Dios D. Juan de Ribera , por el R. P. Fr.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

There lay their canoes, a burning mass; while the foreground was occupied by another band of Englishmen, ready prepared for battle.
— from Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 1 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Mrs. Lanaghan

The most interesting canopies, and among the most effective, are those Early Renaissance picture frames (French, German, or Italian) which, whilst just sufficiently suggesting something near enough to architecture to be called canopies, are really little more than arabesque.
— from Windows: A Book About Stained & Painted Glass by Lewis F. (Lewis Foreman) Day

Spirit of soap , Shaving fluid ; Esprit de savon , Essence de savon , Essence royale pour faire la barbe , Fr.; Essentia saponis , Tinctura saponis concentrata , L. Prep.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson