Virgil makes his wife’s name Marica— Hunc Fauna, et nympha genitum Laurente Marica Accipimus.—Aen.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

[80] Vieri was called Messer, a title reserved for magnates, knights, and lawyers of a certain rank—notaries and jurisconsults; Dante, for example, never gets it.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

If history has to be rewritten for every new generation of men, it is due not merely to the discovery of new historical materials, but just to the fact that there is a new generation.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Keep it up for ever never grow a day older technically.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Waldemar was so passionately fond of the chase that he said if the Lord would only let him hunt for ever near Gurre (his castle in the north of Seeland), he would not envy him his paradise.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

A room was dismantled for each new guest.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

rushed with grief at this pronouncement, Tannhäuser fled, and, despite the entreaties of his faithful friend, Eckhardt, no great time elapsed ere he returned to the Hörselberg, where he vanished within the cave.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

—-Exscindere cives Funditus; et nomen gentis delere laborat.
— 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

Northwest South America, from Ecuador northward (grading into nigricapillus on Isthmus of Panama) … var.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

A fine establishment near Gosport, for the reception and cure of the sick and wounded of the Royal Navy.
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth

Her falcon eyes never gazed at the ground, but were ever fixed upwards or on the bystanders, and nevertheless her slender bare feet never went nigh the eggs in the wildest spinning of her dance.
— from Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Complete by Georg Ebers

Reduced to categorical form : E No G one who pays his debts is M black listed ,
— from A Class Room Logic Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching by George Hastings McNair

Perhaps the supreme man of genius is he who, like Virgil, Leonardo, or Shakespeare, has a message for his own time and a message for all times, a message which is for ever renewed for every new generation.
— from The Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis

He walked on and into the curious, formal little garden of the Small Farm, even now gay with late autumn blossoms.
— from Jane Oglander by Marie Belloc Lowndes

It follows, therefore, that in this process the vapour of the water, in passing through the tube, has been decomposed, and that, having given up to the iron its oxygen, the hydrogen [Pg305] alone escaped from the other end; and for every nine grains weight of steam which passed through the tube, eight grains of oxygen have been combined with the iron, and one grain of hydrogen has escaped from the end of the tube.
— from The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition) With an Account of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and Its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including Also a Memoir of Watt by Dionysius Lardner

Factories employing Negroes generally find it necessary to suspend operations on "circus day."
— from The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various