“Delightful!” shouted something close by; but no one, except the pewter soldier, saw that it was a piece of the hog's-leather hangings; it had lost all its gilding, it looked like a piece of wet clay, but it had an opinion, and it gave it: “The gilding decays, But hog's leather stays!”
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The swinging lines should vary in thickness along their course, getting darker as they pass certain parts, and gradating into lighter lines at other parts according to the effect desired.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Give the English of the following words: Nouns of the First Declension agrī cultūra cōnstantia cōpia dīligentia fāma fēmina galea inopia lacrima lōrīca patria praeda Nouns of the Second Declension ager amīcus arma (plural) auxilium bellum carrus castrum cibus cōnsilium domicilium dominus equus fīlius fluvius frūmentum gladius lēgātus līberī magister mūrus numerus oppidānus oppidum pīlum populus praemium proelium puer scūtum servus studium tēlum vīcus vir Adjectives of the First and Second Declensons aeger, aegra, aegrum alius, alia, aliud alter, altera, alterum armātus, -a, -um crēber, crēbra, crēbrum dūrus, -a, -um fīnitimus, -a, -um īnfīrmus, -a, -um legiōnārius, -a, -um līber, lībera, līberum mātūrus, -a, -um meus, -a, -um miser, misera, miserum multus, -a, -um neuter, neutra, neutrum noster, nostra, nostrum alter, altera, alterum pulcher, pulchra, pulchrum sōlus, -a, -um suus, -a, -um fīnitimus, -a, -um tuus, -a, -um ūllus, -a, -um ūnus, -a, -um uter, utra, utrum validus, -a, -um vester, vestra, vestrum 268 Verbs Demonstrative Pronoun Adverbs arat cūrat dēsīderat mātūrat properat is, ea, id Conjunctions an -que sed iam quō saepe Preposition apud 507.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

From the garden it looked like an arbour.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

This brother man, if not Epic for us, is Tragic; if not great, is large; large in his qualities, world-large in his destinies.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

[Li Ch`uan remarks that the ground is less likely to be treacherous where there are trees, while Tu Mu says that they will serve to protect the rear.]
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

First glance, it looks like the leaf of a note book.
— from The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. Laut

“It’s all right, my aunties,” said Ladybird, advancing, and almost dragging the other, “it’s all right; and this new girl is Lavinia Lovell, and I’m not.
— from The Staying Guest by Carolyn Wells

[Pg 913] Bot, gyf I le, lat Virgyll be owr juge, Hys wark is patent, I may have na refuge; Tharby go note my faltis one by one: No wondir is, the volum was so huge, Quha mycht perfytely all hys hie termys luge 5 In barbar langage, or thame dewly expone?
— from The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2 by Virgil

“Wherefore, gramercy?” inquired Lady Lisle, scornfully.
— from Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt

This “retort courteous” was naturally followed by “Remarks on a letter from the gentlemen in Manchester to the gentlemen in Liverpool, subscribers to the intended Academy,” in which “the gentlemen in Liverpool” lose their temper most completely.
— from Joseph Priestley by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Thorpe

He doodled some more and finally said, "Gentlemen, it looks like this is it.
— from Project Mastodon by Clifford D. Simak

America to-day, in all but government, is less like the America of 1776, than the France of to-day is like the France of 1600.
— from A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by James Fenimore Cooper