Hoc consilium sequendi Pompeius causam habuerat, ut tandem acta in 5 transmarinis provinciis, quibus, ut praediximus, multi obtrectabant, per Caesarem confirmarentur consulem, Caesar autem, quod animadvertebat se cedendo Pompei gloriae aucturum suam et invidia communis potentiae in illum relegata confirmaturum 10 vires suas, Crassus, ut quem principatum solus adsequi non poterat, auctoritate Pompei, viribus teneret Caesaris.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?” Emma agreed to it, and with a blush of sensibility on Harriet's account, which she could not give any sincere explanation of.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

On the fourth day, the two armies joined a more serious and decisive issue; but Alaric would have blushed at the sight of his unworthy successor, sustaining on his head a diadem of pearls, encumbered with a flowing robe of gold and silken embroidery, and reclining on a litter or car of ivory drawn by two white mules.
— 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

M. Dutillot The Court gives a Splendid Entertainment in the Ducal Gardens—A Fatal Meeting—I Have an Interview with M. D’Antoine, the Favourite of the Infante of Spain The happiness I was enjoying was too complete to last long.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Rather, in her destructive operations,—plague, hunger, perils of waters, frost, 354 assaults of other animals great and small, etc.,—in these things has she spared him as little as any other animal.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

After we returned to New York, I took the earliest opportunity to go and see Ellen.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

Riders you saw few; but the elegant carriages of the Emigrants, many-coloured, lackered, gilt and silvered, evidently by the best builders, caught your eye.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

One of them, as she is drawing the thread with her smooth thumb, says, “While others are idling, and thronging to these fanciful rites, let us, whom Pallas, a better Deity, occupies, alleviate the useful toil of our hands with varying discourse; and let us relate by turns to our disengaged ears, for the general amusement , something each in our turn, that will not permit the time to seem long.”
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

As soon as the conspiracy was ripe for execution, Marcellinus, under the pretence of celebrating his son's birthday, gave a splendid entertainment to the illustrious and honorable persons of the court of Gaul, which then resided in the city of Autun.
— 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

The Hanse towns he hated and despised, and in 1361, moved by this enmity, he promised his army that ‘he would lead them whither there was gold and silver enough, and where pigs ate out of silver troughs’.
— from Europe in the Middle Ages by Ierne L. (Ierne Lifford) Plunket

This Wolf, which we afterwards found to be a female, scuffled along on its fore-legs at a surprising rate, giving a snap every now and then to the nearest dog, which went 501 off howling dismally, with a mouthful of skin torn from its side.
— from Audubon and His Journals, Volume 2 (of 2) by John James Audubon

— Who ever gave a satisfactory excuse for an inopportune laugh ?
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Sir George and Sir Edward were old friends.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXVII, August 1852, Vol. V by Various

‘What a demd rum fellow you are, Nickleby,’ said the gentleman, ‘the demdest, longest-headed, queerest-tempered old coiner of gold and silver ever was—demmit.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

THE PALACE OF UKHEIḌIR I do not propose to enter here into a detailed account of the palace of Ukheiḍir, which must be reserved for a subsequent publication, but it is well to give a short elucidation {148} of the plan, and to consider briefly the theories which have been formed with regard to the origin of the building.
— from Amurath to Amurath by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

A puzzled expression troubled the face of the girl as she endeavoured to follow the communication addressed to her, but MacDonald sprang somewhat eagerly to the rescue, and delivered a [Pg 277] long harangue in her native language.
— from A Prince of Good Fellows by Robert Barr

Very soon a noise at its inner door told that Maclean had returned from his false quest, which had taken him only to an unused and bolted outer door originally designed to give a side entrance to the room, that apartment having been formerly devoted to the purposes of an office.
— from The Road to Paris: A Story of Adventure by Robert Neilson Stephens