162 B 3 THE JUGURTHINE WAR, 111-106 B.C. The Betrayal of Jugurtha, 106 B.C. Postea, tempore et loco constituto, in colloquium uti de pace veniretur, Bocchus Sullam modo, modo Iugurthae legatum appellare, benigne habere, idem ambobus polliceri.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

It has been translated into all languages; Catullus put it into Latin and Boileau into French.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

An immodest woman is like a bear.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In an instant like a bolt from the blue, like a thunderbolt from nowhere, that beautiful and defiant body had been dashed down the open well of the lift to death at the bottom.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

SYN: Brief, limited, scanty, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, deficient, defective, imperfect, incomplete, soon, near, narrow, weak, incomprehensive, inextensive, less, abrupt, blunt, concise, condensed.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

He felt so vexed, so aggrieved, and so bitter, that he was choking and tremulous; he wanted to jump up, to bang something on the floor, and to burst into loud abuse; but then he remembered that his doctor had absolutely forbidden him all excitement, so he got up, and making an effort to control himself, began whistling a tune from “Les Huguenots.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

A mile of lane,—hedged high with iron-weeds And dying daisies,—white with sun, that leads Downward into a wood; through which a stream Steals like a shadow; over which is laid A bridge of logs, worn deep by many a team, Sunk in the tangled shade.
— from Weeds by the Wall: Verses by Madison Julius Cawein

The fruit is gathered when the starch is in a mealy condition; it is then peeled, wrapped in leaves, and baked by placing it between hot stones.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

In reports, and the concealed whispers of a few persons, the name of Equitius was ventilated, who was at that time tribune of the first class of the Scutarii; but he was disapproved by the most influential leaders as being rough and boorish; and their inclinations rather tended towards Januarius, a kinsman of Julian, who was the chief commissary of the camp in Illyricum.
— from The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Ammianus Marcellinus

Just about this same time a series of discoveries in Italy led up to the thought of the existence of a circulation of the blood in lungs and body.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

It is like a bottomless well: you can always find fresh truths gushing forth from its pages.
— from Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study by Dwight Lyman Moody

This place is like a brick-kiln.'
— from Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Two books in England enjoy an extraordinary popularity, and have run through upwards of fifty editions in as many years in London alone, besides being reprinted in Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dublin.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

This line would be 289 miles in length, and branches from it are proposed to Anton, 5 miles, and to Los Santos, about 67 miles.
— from The Panama Canal: A history and description of the enterprise by J. Saxon (John Saxon) Mills

In a long life of dealing in various kinds of property, including horse-trading, very few people have ever got the best of me, and everybody knows that this is less a boast than a confession; and yet, this one good act of standing by this poor girl in her dreadful plight degraded me more in the minds of the community than all the spavins, thorough-pins, poll-evils and the like I ever concealed or glossed over.
— from Vandemark's Folly by Herbert Quick

It is a fact that there are people of a later age who are still what we call "children in heart," whose hearts are bold, whose judgment is free, whose inner eye is limpid and bright.
— from Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse