In primis fundamentis caput bubulum inventum est, quod auspicium fructuosae quidem, sed laboriosae perpetuoque servae urbis fuit; propter quod in alium locum urbs translata.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

“By no means,” said be; “it is not for such a man as I am to steal a victory, ‘Malo me fortunae poeniteat, quam victoria pudeat.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

prior , comparison of, 357 . prius quam , for potius quam , 1897 .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Si sint omnes equales, necesse est ut omnes fame pereant; quis aratro terram sulcaret, quis sementem faceret, quis plantas sereret, quis vinum exprimeret?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Dès sa création, ce site pionnier suscite beaucoup d'intérêt dans la communauté francophone parce qu'il montre ce qui est faisable sur le web avec beaucoup de détermination et des moyens limités.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

9 The consideration necessary to determine conduct is, therefore, as Panaetius thinks, a threefold one: first, people question whether the contemplated act is morally right or morally wrong; and in such deliberation their minds are often led to widely divergent conclusions.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

To’udawada is also the only native whom I ever saw wearing a sun-helmet; otherwise he is a decent fellow (physically quite pleasant looking), tall, with a broad, intelligent face.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

A further preliminary question arises.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

A sense of indescribable weariness of all the arrangements for a pretty effect, in which Edith had been busied as supreme authority for the last six weeks, oppressed her just now; and she really wanted some one to help her to a few pleasant, quiet ideas connected with a marriage.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

En attendant nous demeurons, “Monsieur, vos tres-humble serviteurs, “ Bastien Baijer , &c. &c.” [ 15 ] “Mons., “Nous avons receu la vostre, à laquelle nous ne pouvons à present faire aucune reponse, si non qu’il n’est pas en nostre pouvoir de convenir à vos semonces, ni à aucunes choses cy-devant faites; parce que depuis vostre depart d’icy, est arrivé le Col. Daniel Fitche, avec commission de Monsieur le Lieut.-Gen.
— from Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 1 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Mrs. Lanaghan

I take it from previous questions that you have no knowledge of Marina ever having had a black eye or being otherwise molested or beaten by your brother, or anyone else.
— from Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Our girls, on the closing day, exhibited fourteen pieced quilts all completed, and twenty were well along toward completion.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 07, July, 1889 by Various

Queen's Ferry (properly Queensferry ) is on the Firth of Forth, Scotland.
— from Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson Selected and Edited With an Introduction and Notes by William Lyon Phelps by Robert Louis Stevenson

— Dame : Que voyez-vous, mons.?—Je vois la Gloire du beau sexe, l'Ornement de ce siècle, et l'Objet de mes affections.—Vous voyez ici bien des choses.—Toutes ces choses sont en une.—C'est donc une merveille.—Dites, ma chère Dame, la merveille des merveilles.—Je le pourrois dire après vous, car votre bel esprit ne se sauroit tromper.—Il se peut bien tromper, mais non pas en ceci.—Je veux qu'il soit infaillible en ceci: il faut pourtant que je voye cette Gloire, cet Ornement
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley

The compactly formed primary quills are seldom long, but so disposed that the outspread wing is generally pointed; the tail-feathers vary considerably in different species, both as regards length and shape.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 1 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

We have not the slightest disposition to deny the fanaticism and folly of some few professed Quakers in that day; and had the Puritans treated them as the Pope did one of their number whom he found crazily holding forth in the church of St. Peter, and consigned them to the care of physicians as religious monomaniacs, no sane man could have blamed them.
— from Criticism Part 4 from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII by John Greenleaf Whittier

Here we have touched one of the great national names of history; the Goth, like the Frank, plays quite another part in Western Europe from the Alan, the Suevian, and the Vandal.
— from The Chief Periods of European History Six lectures read in the University of Oxford in Trinity term, 1885 by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman