"Princes of Greece, your faithful ears incline, Nor doubt the vision of the powers divine; Sent by great Jove to him who rules the host, Forbid it, heaven!
— from The Iliad by Homer

Tynam et Tesam fluvios extitit, sola eremi vastitudo tunc temporis fuit, et idcirco nullius ditioni servivit, eo quod sola indomitorum et sylvestrium animalium spelunca et habitatio fuit, (apud Carte, vol.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

" O. A. " O. D. " 10 " 12 " " C. A. " C. D. " 9 " 11 " and the effect is greatest when the vortex comes to the meridian before the sun, and least when after the sun; in which case the full effect is not developed, sometimes until the following day.
— from Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Thomas Bassnett

How it came to be considered the fundamental element is not difficult to show.
— from Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Caine, Hall, Sir

In Auvergne, for example, in Notre Dame-du-Port at Clermont-Ferrand (Figs. 49 , 50 ), at Orcival (Puy-de-Dôme), [313] Saint Nectaire (Puy-de-Dôme), [314] and elsewhere the system of transept and crossing vaulting already described [315] made possible the introduction of windows in either the east or west walls of the central towers, or both, though rarely in those to the north or the south, where there were half or full tunnel vaults to abut the dome.
— from Mediaeval Church Vaulting by Clarence Ward

The fear enjoined is no dread of human displeasure, of the master’s whip or tongue.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Ephesians by George G. (George Gillanders) Findlay

The battle for existence is not desperate with them apparently, since they till the soil, and their territory, in effect, is boundless.
— from The Woodlands Orchids, Described and Illustrated With Stories of Orchid-Collecting by Frederick Boyle

That fateful echo is not dumb The nations listening to its sound Wait, from a century's vantage-ground, The holier triumphs yet to come,— The bridal time of Law and Love, The gladness of the world's release, When, war-sick, at the feet of Peace
— from Occasional Poems Part 3 from Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

His life was actuated by high and honorable principles, that found expression in noble deeds and helpfulness toward those who needed assistance.
— from Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

But the successors of these bonâ fide enquirers into nature debased the standard of truth; and, taking advantage of the credit justly attached to their discoveries, renounced the modest character of learners, and erected themselves into teachers, and, to maintain their pretensions to this character, adopted the tone of men who had nothing further to learn.
— from Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy by John F. W. (John Frederick William) Herschel

Take me, for example; I never did a more unexpected thing than kissing that shadow across the wall.
— from The Adventures of a Modest Man by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The Globigerina of the present day, for example, is not different specifically from that of the chalk; and the same maybe said of many other Foraminifera .
— from Discourses: Biological & Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley