W. furnishes a Latin parallel: ‘Sus vero quid habet praeter escam? cui quidem, ne putresceret, animam ipsam pro sale datam dicit esse Chrysippus.’—Cic.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

cum diēs vēnit, causā ipse prō sē dictā, damnātur , L. 4, 44, 10, when the day of the trial came, he spoke in his own defence and was condemned .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

If even the rule adopted should in practice justify the equality of its principle, still delinquencies in payments on the part of some of the States would result from a diversity of other causes—the real deficiency of resources; the mismanagement of their finances; accidental disorders in the management of the government; and, in addition to the rest, the reluctance with which men commonly part with money for purposes that have outlived the exigencies which produced them, and interfere with the supply of immediate wants.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

In the contemporary account of that incident in the Niagara Constellation , the name is phonetically spelt De Hayne .
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Like other valuable resources in public speaking, description loses its power when carried to an extreme.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Quae propius quaedam subibant naves, quo interiores ictibus tormentorum essent, in 10 eas tollenone super murum eminente ferrea manus, firmae catenae illigata, cum iniecta prorae esset gravique libramento plumbi recelleret ad solum, suspensa prora navem in puppim statuebat; dein remissa subito velut ex muro cadentem navem cum 15 ingenti trepidatione nautarum ita undae affligebat , ut, etiam si recta reciderat, aliquantum aquae acciperet, Ita maritima oppugnatio est elusa omnisque spes eo versa, ut totis viribus terra aggrederentur.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Sophia, when her arm was bound up, retired: for she was not willing (nor was it, perhaps, strictly decent) to be present at the operation on Jones.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Perhaps before these pages are in print something decisive will have occurred.
— from A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden by Donald Maxwell

Having at last faithfully rehearsed the Christmas dinner in all its points, she drew a long breath of relief, rose, extinguished her light, and going over to the window, stood there for a moment looking out.
— from Anne: A Novel by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Now, in the winter, the short days passed in peaceful, sombre domesticity: in the afternoon, Constance went for a walk or to see a poor person, generally with Adeletje; paying or receiving a visit was quite an event, which happened only three or four times during the winter; only Gerdy sometimes entertained her tennis-club and gave the members tea, upstairs in the girls' sitting-room, as though striving for a little sociability from the outside....
— from Dr. Adriaan by Louis Couperus

The foregoing rule may be extended to form a sixth, That no epithet ought to be given to the figurative sense of a word that agrees not also with its proper sense: ———— Dicat Opuntiæ Frater Megillæ, quo beatus Vulnere.
— from Elements of Criticism, Volume III. by Kames, Henry Home, Lord

"Not if he thinks he is drowned, as is probable," said Durham, rather surprised at hearing strong language from the lips of the lady.
— from The Red Window by Fergus Hume

They had marched into Winslow's camp, it was said, some few months earlier, proffering their services; and there they had since remained, scouting up and down the lake upon skates or snowshoes, snatching away prisoners from the Indian allies, or from the very walls of the fort itself, and intercepting provisions sent down Lake Champlain for the use of the French.
— from French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America by Evelyn Everett-Green

Today, advances in paleontology still depend primarily upon major field discoveries, but paleontologists also make use of highly refined analytical and measurement techniques.
— from Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Nebraska by United States. National Park Service

Now that his quarry was in plain sight, De Gourgues laid his plans with the deliberation of a careful field-captain, sure of his position and of his men, but waiting only to devise the more surely.
— from In Search of Mademoiselle by George Gibbs