Then of the crowd ye took no more account Than of the myriad cricket of the mead, When its own voice clings to each blade of grass, And every voice is nothing.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Every voice in nature was unanimous in bespeaking change.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

atque dedere Pro facie cujusque, et viribus ingenioque; Nam facies multum valuit, viresque vigebant.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

It seems to be settled now, isn't it—though of course Zilla keeps rooting for a nice expensive vacation in New York and Atlantic City, with the bright lights and the bootlegged cocktails and a bunch of lounge-lizards to dance with—but the Babbitts and the Rieslings are sure-enough going to Lake Sunasquam, aren't we?
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Ea ipsa intervalla expeditis velitibus implevit, ne interluceret acies, dato his praecepto, ut ad impetum elephantorum vel retro vel in latera concederent.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

176 B 17 A. Sulla appointed Dictator, 81 B.C. Dictator creatus ( cuius honoris usurpatio per annos centum et viginti intermissa; nam proximus post annum quam Hannibal Italia excesserat, uti appareat populum Romanum usum dictatoris haud metu desiderasse tali quo timuisset potestatem) imperio, 5 quo priores ad vindicandum maximis periculis patriam usi erant, eo in immodicae crudelitatis licentiam usus est.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Besides, when poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

It is, however, remarkable, that his fancy, which is everywhere vigorous, is not discovered immediately at the beginning of his poem in its fullest splendour: it grows in the progress both upon himself and others, and becomes on fire, like a chariot-wheel, by its own rapidity.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Sámar n Samar, an island in the Eastern Visayas. -inyu, -nun n one from the island of Samar. samàsamà v
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

None of them display much art; as for the English vase, it needs only a lid to turn it into a respectable soup-tureen.
— from The South of France—East Half by C. B. Black

Ambrose Bierce, in The Eyes of the Panther , tells of a young girl who, because of a prenatal curse similar to that affecting Elsie Venner, is not wholly human.
— from The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction by Dorothy Scarborough

It was a ringing elastic voice, in no wise lagging in speech, with a certain measurement in its tones, as if he weighed his words and thoughts, and gave them out generously, pound for pound, a fair measure which our grandmother’s recipes approved.
— from Mae Madden by Mary Murdoch Mason

Exemplary virtue is not, however, claimed for chess-players, as in the former instance, for some are said to be continually 'swearing false oaths, and making many vain excuses;' and again, 'You never see a chess-player rich, who is not a sordid miser, nor hear a squabbling that is not a question of the chess-board.'
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 Volume 17, New Series, March 20, 1852 by Various

Well, you will hardly believe me, but it's true, no sooner had Uncle Wiggily and the pussy put up the lunch, wrapping some for each visitor in nice, green grape leaves, than the first ones of the picnic party began to arrive.
— from Uncle Wiggily's Travels by Howard Roger Garis

Dixerat et velox iam nuntius advolat urbem.
— from Claudian, volume 1 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

Though the upper part of the Eden valley is now occupied by a few industrious farmers and peaceful shepherds, we instinctively think of the time when the slogan of border chiefs and their clansmen sent a thrill of terror through Mallerstang, and when sword and fire did terrible work to man and beast.
— from The Cruise of the Elena; Or, Yachting in the Hebrides by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

Our Eighth Volume is now bound and ready for delivery, price 10s.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 233, April 15, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various