Iam lêgatî cum legiônariîs ex Italiâ ad Rhênum, fluvium Germâniae altum et lâtum, properant, et servî equîs et carrîs cibum frûmentumque ad castra Rômâna portant.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

[382] Sodom and Cahors : Sins against nature are reckoned sins against God, as explained lower down in this Canto.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The distinction, therefore, between these species of sentiment being so great and evident, language must soon be moulded upon it, and must invent a peculiar set of terms, in order to express those universal sentiments of censure or approbation, which arise from humanity, or from views of general usefulness and its contrary.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

Certain persons are supposed to be possessed from time to time by a spirit or deity; while the possession lasts, their own personality lies in abeyance, the presence of the spirit is revealed by convulsive shiverings and shakings of the man’s whole body, by wild gestures and excited looks, all of which are referred, not to the man himself, but to the spirit which has entered into him; and in this abnormal state all his utterances are accepted as the voice of the god or spirit dwelling in him and speaking through him.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Here is a single sheet, dated ‘this 2nd September, 1791,’ and headed Souvenir: The Prince de Rosenberg said to me, as we went down stairs, that Madame de Rosenberg was dead, and asked me if the Comte de Waldstein had in the library the illustration of the Villa d’Altichiero, which the Emperor had asked for in vain at the city library of Prague, and when I answered ‘yes,’ he gave an equivocal laugh.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In this manner, a man of talent, and of great antiquarian erudition, limited the popularity of his work, by excluding from it every thing which was not sufficiently obsolete to be altogether forgotten and unintelligible.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

She brought me up to royalties, and people with stars and garters, and elderly ladies with gigantic tiaras and parrot noses.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The gods are even less than Buddhas.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

He is especially celebrated for his pictures of ancient Roman, Greek, and Egyptian life, which are painted with great realism and archæological correctness.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

The following is Gorresio's translation of the corresponding passage in the Bengal recension:— “Oh come risplendono in questa stagione di primavera i vitici, le galedupe, le bassie, le dalbergie, i diospyri … le tile, le michelie, le rottlerie, le pentaptere ed i pterospermi, i bombaci, le grislee, gli abri, gli amaranti e le dalbergie; i sirii, le galedupe, le barringtonie ed i palmizi, i xanthocymi, il pepebetel, le verbosine e le ticaie, le nauclee le erythrine, gli asochi, e le tapie fanno d'ogni intorno pompa de' lor fiori.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

; persons who suffer for god-man kings, 104 - 107 ; survivals of human sacrifice at the Saturnalia, 109 - 115 ; modern Carnival, 110 , 111 ; the Greek Cronia, 115 - 118 ; the Sacæa, 118 - 122 ; again mock kings, 120 , 121 , 123 ; attempts to prove the Sacæan criminal divine, 123 - 140 ; sacrifice by hanging, 127 - 132 ; date of the Sacæa, 135 - 138 ; the Sacæan victim, 138 ; analogies of Zakmuk, Sacæa, and Purim, 141 - 160 ; human victims at Purim, 153 ; connection of Mordecai, Esther, Vashti, and Haman with Babylonian and Elamite gods, 161 ; the ride of the beardless Persian buffoon, 168 , 171 , 301 - 305 ; festivals of licence, 185 - 199 ; divine scapegoat, 189 ; Calvary, 200 - 204 ; the ghastly priest of the grove of Diana, 206 - 223 ; the Quiteva, 234 ; taboo, 268 ; fire-walking, 270 Fuegian idea on flapper shooting, 267 GASON , Mr., on the beliefs of the Dieri, 56 , 57 note; on Mara Mura, 62 , 63 German theory of Purim, 147 Georgia, stone-markings in, 243 Ghost-worship, 31 Gilgamesh and Eabani, legend of, 164 , 165 , 180 , 181 Gillen.
— from Magic and Religion by Andrew Lang

A curious memorial of Alfred's stay in Athelney is to be seen at Oxford—a Pg 39 gold and enamel locket bearing his name,
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman

I have ridiculed the puppets of all features, all colours, all sizes, by which an impudent and audacious set of impostors have been gaining an easy livelihood these two thousand years.
— from Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

However strongly the industrial element may have asserted itself in the many interesting exhibits, no matter how extensive the appeal of the applied sciences may be, the final and lasting effect will be found in the great and enduring lesson of beauty which the Exposition so unforgetably teaches.
— from The Art of the Exposition Personal Impressions of the Architecture, Sculpture, Mural Decorations, Color Scheme & Other Aesthetic Aspects of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Eugen Neuhaus

2 [B; c1] get an exhausted look on the face.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

102 Frank’s heart gave an exultant leap.
— from The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition by Gerald Breckenridge

Also at 1/6 net Lord Kitchener: THE STORY OF HIS LIFE By HORACE G. GROSER “An excellent life ... giving just the information the general reader requires, and its perusal enables everyone to understand the great part Lord Kitchener has played in recent history.”— The Field.
— from Admiral Jellicoe by Arthur Applin

He's quite a young colt, sir, only 'alf broke—kicks like a windmill, sir, and's got an 'ead like a steam-engine; 'e couldn't 'old 'im in no'ow, sir.
— from Snowflakes and Sunbeams; Or, The Young Fur-traders: A Tale of the Far North by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Our "Christian" Government, whose Christianity, as a rule, is looked for in vain there where it should be applied, and is found where the same is superfluous and harmful,—this Christian Government acts exactly like the Christian capitalists, a fact that does not astonish him who knows that the Christian Government is but the agent of our Christian capitalists.
— from Woman under socialism by August Bebel