Aurelian had resigned a distant province to the Goths; but it was dangerous to trust or to pardon these perfidious barbarians, whose formidable power kept Italy itself in perpetual alarms.
— 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

Ili ankoraŭ nun havas la samajn metodojn por presi librojn kaj por fari pulvon, kiajn ili havis antaŭ mil jaroj.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

31 Aurelian had resigned a distant province to the Goths; but it was dangerous to trust or to pardon these perfidious barbarians, whose formidable power kept Italy itself in perpetual alarms.
— 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

148 This was Erasistratus’s favourite principle, known in Latin as the “horror vacui” and in English as “Nature’s abhorrence of a vacuum,” although these terms are not an exact translation of the Greek.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

gipaka- ug [ gen. ] ug ( short forms: pakaingun, kaingun, ingun )
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Those four people -- kids I'd never met -- they nearly went away forever because of something I'd started.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Few people know it, but one must have all the virtues in order to sleep well.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A Series of small Volumes descriptive of the principal Countries of the World by well-known Authors, each Country being treated of by a Writer who from Personal Knowledge is qualified to speak with authority on the Subject.
— from Albania: A Narrative of Recent Travel by E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight

KIM Chong-il has ruled North Korea since his father and the country's founder, president KIM Il-song, died in 1994.
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

A few days after the war began, I received a telegram from Joanne Speicher, the wife of the first pilot killed in the gulf, Lieutenant Commander Scott Speicher.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

"I was the thief, all right enough, but only a few people knew it.
— from Jane Allen, Right Guard by Edith Bancroft

In the first place kindly inform me of the facts.
— from The Fall of Prince Florestan of Monaco by Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir

Very few people knew it, because, when she married, it was against our father’s wishes, and she had cut herself adrift from the family.
— from The Lamp of Fate by Margaret Pedler

"Dear boy," the Lady Henrietta had said when giving him her fond parting kiss, "if you are very unhappy and feel you greatly wish to write to Miss Waring, I suppose you must do so, but let your letter be about the scenery and the impressions of travel, in no way to be interpreted into a declaration of affection or a promise of future union—I have your word, Paul, for that?"
— from Three Weeks by Elinor Glyn

" H2 anchor FRIEDRICH TRIES TO HAVE BATTLE FROM PRINCE KARL, IN THE MOLDAU COUNTRIES; CANNOT, OWING TO THE SKILL OF PRINCE KARL OR OF OLD FELDMARSCHALL TRAUN;—HAS TO RETIRE BEHIND THE SAZAWA, AND ULTIMATELY BEHIND THE ELBE, WITH MUCH LABOR IN VAIN.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle

Judge Wallace never sought political office and his abilities therefore never were fully publicly known in that line, but some of his literary compositions have been widely read and favorably criticised.
— from Historic Fredericksburg: The Story of an Old Town by John T. (John Tackett) Goolrick