I’m beginning to get cross, Vera!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

MIRACULOUS AND IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE GODS CHAPTER V. VIRGIN MOTHERS AND VIRGIN-BORN GODS CHAPTER VI. STARS POINT OUT
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

On the twenty-sixth armed insurrection broke out at Caloocan, just north of Manila, from time immemorial the resort of bad characters from all the country round and the center of brigandage, while at San Juan del Monte, on the outskirts of the city, several bloody skirmishes were fought a few days later with the Guardia Civil Veterana , the picked police force.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Sometimes, again, with no alteration of the word, just as the things themselves are named, so that the goddess who gives money is called Pecunia, and money is not thought to be itself a goddess: so of Virtus, who gives virtue; Honor, who gives honour; Concordia, who gives concord; Victoria, who gives victory.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

i. 23 ‘redundantia justitiæ super scribarum et Pharisæorum ’ is quoted to illustrate the genitive ‘Colossensium’ ver.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

[5315] festus dies hominis , O happy day; so Chaerea exclaims when he came from Pamphila his sweetheart well pleased, Nunc est profecto interfici cum perpeti me possem, Ne hoc gaudium contaminet vita aliqua aegritudine.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Weiss, C.C. Coffee arabica nach seiner zerstörenden Wirkung auf animalische Dünste als Schutzmittel gegen Contagion vorschlagen.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

One day, several years ago, a rogue imperfectly reverent of the Secretary's profound attainments and personal character presented him with a sack of gunpowder, representing it as the seed of the Flashawful flabbergastor , a Patagonian cereal of great commercial value, admirably adapted to this climate.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

Globus Cæli volvitur
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

At the same time, in the West, General Grant captured Vicksburg with upwards of thirty thousand men (July 4), and Port Hudson was taken.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

[1] The gradual dwindling of the Venetian aristocracy, 235 and the impoverishment of many noble families, which rendered votes in the Grand Council venal, and threw the power into the hands of a very limited oligarchy, complete the parallel.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds

Juliana became Gillian, and from this, or from the masculine form Julian, we get Jalland , Jolland , and the shortened Gell , Gill (Chapter VI), and Jull .
— from The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley

He had remarked that the flame of hydrogen gas caused vibrations that produced musical tones, and in 1823 wrote on "the analogy between chemical and musical combinations."
— from Cornish Characters and Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

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— from Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook With an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Andrew Kippis

A corpse grows cold very quickly.
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac

What that is, seems to be so satisfactorily shown by your correspondent S. G. C., Vol. viii., p. 393., that all farther argument on the subject would be superfluous.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

His sonne Edmund got him to Vtred, an earle of great power, inhabiting beyond Humber, and persuading him to ioine his forces with his, forth they went to waste those countries that were become subiect to Cnute, as Staffordshire, Leicestershire, and Shropshire, not sparing to exercise great crueltie vpon the inhabitants, as a punishment for their reuolting, that others might take example thereby.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8) The Seventh Boke of the Historie of England by Raphael Holinshed

All the time that he had listened so pleasantly to this garrulous chatter, Varney had been swiftly planning.
— from Captivating Mary Carstairs by Henry Sydnor Harrison