Cum enim rex Pyrrhus populo Romano bellum ultro intulisset, cumque de imperio certamen esset cum rege generoso ac potenti, [341] perfuga ab eo venit in castra Fabrici eique est pollicitus, si praemium sibi proposuisset, se, ut clam venisset, sic clam in Pyrrhi castra rediturum et eum veneno necaturum.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sed Pompêius dê fortûnîs suîs dêspêrâns sê in castra equô contulit, inde mox cum paucîs equitibus effûgit.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

I was prompt with my answer, however, for I saw where my advantage lay and that with a fellow so densely stupid I could easily conceal my suspicions to the end.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

[Popilius imperator tenebat provinciam, in cuius exercitu Catonis filius tiro militabat.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

In short it is a large village made up of individual cottages, each cottage in the centre of its own little wood or orchard, and each with its own separate path: a village with a labyrinth of paths, or rather a neighbourhood of houses!
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I could easily catch hold of her when she comes up to my step: nobody is looking.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Cum duo edificasset castella, ad tollendam structionis invidiam, et expiandam maculam, duo instituit caenobia, et collegis relgiosis implevit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I can easily conceive such a result," repeated Mr. Farebrother, emphatically.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

[Pg 435] condensed in the word which I never collected, and which is not individual; it even surpasses me to such an extent that I cannot even completely appropriate all its results.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

plura de his et specialia habet aphorismata, longo proculdubio usu confirmata, et ab experientia multa perfecta, inquit commentator ejus Cardanus.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Then, a question wanted so much to be asked, that when I refused it asked [Pg 234] itself in a great hurry, before I could even catch it by its lizard-tail.
— from The Motor Maid by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Think not I can ever change, Judge Le Grande.
— from Leah Mordecai: A Novel by Belle K. (Belle Kendrick) Abbott

And good picked-shots have in common everywhere certain qualities, probably developed by the life in the open, and the unique influences of woodland and upland hunting.
— from The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Stewart Edward White

He admitted that equality of representation was an excellent principle, but then it must be of things which are co-ordinate; that is, of things similar, and of the same nature: that nothing relating to individuals could ever come before Congress; nothing but what would respect colonies.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 1 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

“And the tragi-comedy of Adolphe by Benjamin Constant is constantly enacted,” cried Lousteau.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

It grows to a great size, and its strength is such that it can easily carry off a deer, a colt, or a young buffalo cow in its jaws.
— from Winnetou, the Apache Knight by Karl May

The place is called El Cowie, and is a station of the Bishareen in the summer months; but these people were now east of us, three days journey, towards the Red Sea, where the rains had fallen, and there was plenty of pasture.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

“Another influential chief, Emachitochustern, commonly called John Walker, was robbed of a number of slaves in a somewhat similar manner.
— from Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat

Their most marked feature is a dignified comfort, looking as if no disturbance or vulgar intrusiveness could ever cross their thresholds, encroach upon their ornamented lawns, or straggle into the beautiful gardens that surround them with flower-beds and rich clumps of shrubbery.
— from Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne