10 Ac primo missilibus summovere hostem nec quicquam satis tutum munientibus pati; deinde iam non pro moenibus modo atque turri tela micare, sed ad erumpendum etiam in stationes operaque hostium animus erat; quibus tumultuariis certaminibus 15 haud ferme plures Saguntini cadebant quam Poeni.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Sic multa, quae honesta natura videntur esse, temporibus fiunt non honesta; facere promissa, stare conventis, reddere deposita commutata utilitate fiunt non honesta.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

There he found an old man grazing his beast along the pathway from his court-yard fence, and the all-glorious Son of Leto began and said to him. (ll. 190-200) 'Old man, weeder 2520 of grassy Onchestus, I am come here from Pieria seeking cattle, cows all of them, all with curving horns, from my herd.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

healsung f. prayer, supplication, conjuring, entreaty .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Prusias shall restore to 326 Byzantines all lands, forts, populations, and prisoners of war, without ransom; and besides these things, the ships taken at the beginning of the war, and the arms seized in the fortresses; and also the timbers, stone-work, and roofing belonging to the fort called Hieron” (for Prusias, in his terror of the approach of Tiboetes, had pulled down every fort which seemed to lie conveniently for him): “finally, Prusias shall compel such of the Bithynians as have any property taken from the Byzantine district of Mysia to restore it to the farmers.”
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

She was evidently gathering herself, for presently she came and took a seat facing me, Christopher standing.
— from Lentala of the South Seas: The Romantic Tale of a Lost Colony by W. C. Morrow

His frank pardon she could hardly realise.
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

If the Lily-beetle can no longer find her favourite plant, she can browse upon Solomon's seal and smilax, not to mention the lily of the valley and, I dare say, a few others of the same family.
— from The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Jean-Henri Fabre

He snapped his face plate shut, clicked on the interphone and turned the oxygen valve.
— from First on the Moon by Jeff Sutton

The man whirled around, his face plainly showing consternation.
— from The Clock Strikes Thirteen by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

Without painful search, entirely at her ease, merely moving in the sunshine over her favourite plant, she can ensure a sufficient provision for each of her offspring; she can do so, yet is foolish enough to over-populate the pod of the pea; a nursery insufficiently provided, in which the great majority will perish of starvation.
— from Social Life in the Insect World by Jean-Henri Fabre

When she got to the Serpentine—the north bank was her favorite promenade; she could see on the other side, just below the line of leaves, the people passing and repassing on horseback; but she was not of them—she found a number of urchins wading.
— from Sunrise by William Black

“Three hisses for Professor Skeel!” called someone, and it sounded as if a den of snakes had been loosed.
— from Tom Fairfield's Schooldays; or, The Chums of Elmwood Hall by Allen Chapman

His family played some considerable part in the life of the time and they were always suspected of Jacobite leanings.
— from A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs: The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 by George McKinnon Wrong