Turnus, being in love with her, favoured by her mother, and by Juno and Alecto, breaks the treaty which was made, and engages in his quarrel Mezentius, Camilla, Messapus, and many other of the neighbouring princes; whose forces, and the names of their commanders are particularly related.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

The honour of combat consists in the jealousy of courage, and not of skill; and therefore I have known a friend of mine, famed as a great master in this exercise, in his quarrels make choice of such arms as might deprive him of this advantage and that wholly depended upon fortune and assurance, that they might not attribute his victory rather to his skill in fencing than his valour.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I wore a fur great-coat at that time, and before we were well clear of the wharf, he questioned me concerning it, and its price, and where I bought it, and when, and what fur it was, and what it weighed, and what it cost.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

He questioned me concerning Captain Leclere’s death; and, as the latter had told me, gave me a letter to carry on to a person in Paris.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

With painful earnestness he questioned me concerning her prophecies with regard to him.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

193 Quid fiet hominibus qui minima contemnunt, majora non credunt?
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

81-4: habría que mandar : cf.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

] Note 72 ( return ) [ Basilius Caesariensis episcopus Cappadociae clarus habetur... qui multa continentiae et ingenii bona uno superbiae malo perdidit.
— 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

Intelligo pecuniam rem esse jucundissimam, meam tamen libentius darem Cliniae quam ab aliis acciperem; libentius huic servirem, quam aliis imperarem, &c. Noctem et somnum accuso, quod illum non videam, luci autem et soli gratiam habeo quod mihi Cliniam ostendant.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The lady, whose resolution had given way to terror the moment she had quitted Manfred, continued her flight to the bottom of the principal staircase.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

An Approach Stalled Ox and a Dinner of Herbs Qu' mon Coeur en Mariage Fairy Land Claire Fontaine
— from Stand Fast, Craig-Royston! (Volume I) by William Black

P. J. F. G. " Heu quanto minus ," &c. —From what author is this passage taken?
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 89, July 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

She had quaintly moving charm.
— from In Red and Gold by Samuel Merwin

"He questioned me closely," said Lieutenant Irvin, "and finding that I was really who I pretended to be, finally agreed to take me to Toombs.
— from Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Pleasant A. Stovall

Street-venders and hawkers of various comestibles, each with his or her quaint musical cry, come in numbers. "
— from Bohemian Paris of To-day Second Edition by Edward Cucuel

His first thought was that he did not want any one to see him standing there in the shrubbery apparently without reason; he started to crouch, but his quick movement caught the eye of the person who was passing.
— from The Mark of the Knife by Clayton H. (Clayton Holt) Ernst

Good La Tour was for the time our only confidant, if I may so call it; for in the evening he questioned me closely as soon as he found an opportunity, and I told him at once that I had spoken with Louise upon the subject of my love, and that with joy unutterable I had found it was returned.
— from The Man-at-Arms; or, Henry De Cerons. Volumes I and II by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James