615: Iam cinis est: et de tam magno restat Achille Nescio quid parvam quod non bene compleat urnam.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
But this was nothing (although I don't think I can ever eat dum fish again as long as I live) to the effluvia arising from decomposed heaps of sea-wood, which had been gathered for manure, and was in the act of removal to the fields.
— from Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
If, as is confidently expected, Ernest Dummkopf is elected to succeed the dethroned one, mark any words, he will make a mess of it.
— from The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Arthur Sullivan
"What do I care?" energetically exclaimed Don Pedro.
— from The Bee Hunters: A Tale of Adventure by Gustave Aimard
MSS. 6159, f. 52, b: 'Pastura ... de herbagiis cuiusdam vie inter curiam et ecclesiam de Pritelwelle.' Domesday of St. Paul's, 1: 'Nulla est ibi pastura nisi in boscis et viis.'
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
Lo corpo ond'ella fu cacciata giace giuso in Cieldauro; ed essa da martiro e da essilio venne a questa pace.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri
eumque studiose propter amicitiam nostram invitavit; cumque ex eo de me percontaretur, eum sibi ita dixisse narrabat, se mihi esse inimicissimum, volumenque sibi ostendisse orationis, quam apud Caesarem contra me esset habiturus.
— from Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 2 of 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The señorita wishes to assure herself that what she has been told by Don Carlos de Ruiz is correct," explained El Diablo Cojuelo, in his disguised and muffled voice.
— from Bandit Love by Juanita Savage
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