We have all heard him, he was a welcome guest in local society.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

vīnum Adjectives of the First and Second Declensions adversus attentus cārus commōtus dēfessus dexter dubius maximus perfidus plēnus saevus sinister Adverbs anteā celeriter dēnique diū frūstrā graviter ita longē semper subitō tamen tum Conjunctions autem sī ubi 272
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

For as a newborn babe cannot be nourished without the nurse's milk, nor conducted to the approaches that lead to growth in life, so a city cannot thrive without fields and the fruits thereof pouring into its walls, nor have a large population without plenty of food, nor maintain its population without a supply of it.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

What does get into ladies sometimes, I don’t know; but, sometimes, when a body has de heaviest kind o’ ’sponsibility on ’em, as ye may say, and is all kinder ”seris’ and taken up, dey takes dat ar time to be hangin’ round and kinder interferin’!
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

My reader may well judge that Malcolm could not have been very far gone in love, seeing he was thus able to read, remark in return that it was not merely the distance between him and Lady Florimel that had hitherto preserved his being from absorption and his will from annihilation, but also the strength of his common sense, and the force of his individuality.
— from Malcolm by George MacDonald

The music lay hushed in it; If the lips may pay Gladness In laughters she wakened, And the heart to its sadness Weeping unslakened, If the hid and sealed coffer, Whose having not his is, p. viii To the loosers may proffer Their finding—here this is; Their lives if all livers To the Life of all living,— To you, O dear givers!
— from Poems by Francis Thompson

Year after year I listened for its deep mysterious call, which sounded like gow-gow-gow-gow-gow, in late September, even as the small English boy listens for the call of his cuckoo, in April; and the human-like character of the sound, together with the startlingly impressive way in which it was enunciated, always produced the idea that it was something more than a mere bird call.
— from Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

At all events it is a great thing to have proved that the line dividing freedom from autocracy does not divide the peoples of the New World from their mother Europe, or preclude the whole of the former from joining any great international league such as the future may have in store for succeeding generations.
— from South America and the War by F. A. (Frederick Alexander) Kirkpatrick

Not a word, not a sign from the little girl I left so reluctantly.”
— from The Brand: A Tale of the Flathead Reservation by Therese Broderick