Lorsque je me suis fait avoir par une fausse information concernant une société dont je possédais des actions.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Dissolutio foederis in corpore, ut sanitas est consummatio.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It so happened, however: as it will happen very often, when men fall into company under such circumstances: that Mr. Bumble felt, every now and then, a powerful inducement, which he could not resist, to steal a look at the stranger: and that whenever he did so, he withdrew his eyes, in some confusion, to find that the stranger was at that moment stealing a look at him.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

In the brown of the eve melts away, Or at that when the long-brooding night Has just lifted its pinions for flight, I climb up some tree, at the edge of a wood, And there, like a Jove, so wise and so good, I startle with fear Some young Rabbits gambolling near.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

The wire passes now several times around a strain-pulley, and finally is coiled under slight tension upon a large storage-drum.
— from Sounding the Ocean of Air Being Six Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell Institute of Boston, in December 1898 by Abbott Lawrence Rotch

In case of a fire in camp, underbrush, spades, shovels, blankets, etc., are used to beat it out.
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

Quoth Miss Annie, “Evermore.” “Book or fiend,” I cried, up starting, “Be that word our sign of parting.”
— from The Angel in the Cloud by Edwin W. (Edwin Wiley) Fuller

Fortunately, I can use some of the parts of this one, or we would be delayed longer."
— from Lost on the Moon; Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds by Roy Rockwood

Nay more: if faith in Christ unites souls, where is the necessity of an external bond?
— from History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume 3 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

The span of the floor beams—the distance from the sill to the next support—is important, as a floor is called upon sometimes to support great weight, as when a number of people are present, or a heavy piece of furniture such as a piano rests on it.
— from Carpentry and Woodwork by Edwin W. Foster