If a private person sell to another private person, he shall have the right of restitution, and the decision shall be given as before, but the defendant, if he be cast, shall only pay back the price of the slave.
— from Laws by Plato

She waited for the material pictures which she thought would gather and blaze before her imagination.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

If, now, we wish to express the idea the horse is Galba’s , Galba remains the possessor, and hence in the genitive as before, but now stands in the predicate, as, equus est Galbae .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

We were talking about what it is like to spend one’s childhood in little towns like these, buried in wheat and corn, under stimulating extremes of climate: burning summers when the world lies green and billowy beneath a brilliant sky, when one is fairly stifled in vegetation, in the color and smell of strong weeds and heavy harvests; blustery winters with little snow, when the whole country is stripped bare and gray as sheet-iron.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

And even though these are absent, yet the mind, With a fore-fearing conscience, plies its goads And burns beneath the lash, nor sees meanwhile What terminus of ills, what end of pine Can ever be, and feareth lest the same
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

We have glimpses, here and there and yonder, through the dim cathedral twilight, of portions of many galleries and balconies, wedged full with other people, the other portions of these galleries and balconies being cut off from sight by intervening pillars and architectural projections.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Vengeance to God alone belongs; But when I think on all my wrongs, My blood is liquid flame!
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

He says— “The tulip next appeared, all over gay, But wanton, full of pride, and full of play; The world can’t shew a dye but here has place; Nay, by new mixtures, she can change her face; Purple and gold are both beneath her care, The richest needlework she loves to wear; Her only study is to please the eye, And to outshine the rest in finery.”
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

xxxii. g ); and below by the os pubis itself.
— from A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell

Being Sunday, there was no general gathering of the Central High girls and boys, but Laura, naturally, saw her brother early.
— from The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or, Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause by Gertrude W. Morrison

Got a big barrel of whisky.
— from Casey Ryan by B. M. Bower

This blood is carried to the gills and bathed by a constant stream of fresh water, which enters behind the covering and shield, and passes forwards till it comes out on each side of the mouth.
— from Chatterbox, 1905. by Various

Here are chiffons, ninons too, Quilts for Fido's cot; Silken robe and satin shoe, Figured fabrics, gold and blue, Bangles, pearls—what not?
— from Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 19, 1916 by Various

These were a little garbled at Berlin, before printed.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 2 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

They have their cups and chalices; Their pardons and indulgences; Their beads of nits, bells, books, and wax Candles, forsooth, and other knacks; Their holy oil, their fasting spittle; Their sacred salt here, not a little; Dry chips, old shoes, rags, grease and bones; Beside their fumigations To drive the devil from the cod-piece Of the friar (of work an odd piece).
— from The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 by Robert Herrick

Urquhart considered it as good as bought, but Secundus returned it to him next day.
— from A Holiday in Bed, and Other Sketches by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie