lengest ( Chr, Mk ) superl.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Subito allor, com’acqua il foco ammorza, D’un lungo e grave sonno mi risveglio: E veggio ben che ’l nostro viver vola, E ch’esser non si può più d’una volta; E ’n mezzo ’l cor mi sona una parola Di lei ch’è or dal suo bel nodo sciolta, Ma ne’ suoi giorni al mondo fu sì sola, Ch’a tutte, s’i’ non erro, fama ha tolta.
— from Fifteen sonnets of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca

If we Lions could make statues, you may be sure that in most of them you would see the Man underneath."
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

Those who have lived always in the obscurity of a London court might shrink away from the free light; poor as are their acquaintanceships at home, they might fear to go where they knew no one.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

Cuando esto último ocurrió, los institutos secundarios no ligaron su suerte a la de la escuela primaria, ni progresaron al paso de ella como ocurrió en los Estados Unidos, sino que conservaron sus viejas relaciones con la Universidad, de la cual muchos son anexos hoy día. —¿Ocurre eso en todos los países latinoamericanos?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Imperâtor ipse cum urbem intrâret, undique laetô clâmôre multitûdinis salûtâtus est.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

I resign myself to you also—I guess what you mean, I behold from the beach your crooked fingers, I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me, We must have a turn together, I undress, hurry me out of sight of the land, Cushion me soft, rock me in billowy drowse, Dash me with amorous wet, I can repay you.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Induced, or at least aggravated, by the more than scanty allowance of water, a malignant fever followed the scurvy; with the excessive heat of the lengthened calm, making such short work of it as to sweep away, as by billows, whole families of the Africans, and a yet larger number, proportionably, of the Spaniards, including, by a luckless fatality, every remaining officer on board.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

After the boy has passed the examination, the local council may secure the merit badge for him by presenting the facts to the National Council.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The Taj is built of a light creamy marble, so that it does not chill one as pure cold white marble does.
— from Round the World by Andrew Carnegie

“We could never pull the steamer off the rocks, but a larger craft might,” suggested Tom.
— from The Boys of the Wireless; Or, A Stirring Rescue from the Deep by Frank V. Webster

Yes, you may laugh, call me sentimental, etc., but I shall never forgive myself for having killed, by inches, in my selfish and cruel kindness, that pretty creature.
— from The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Dame Shirley

It was reissued, probably in 1850, with a cancel title-page reading: “The Floral Telegraph or Affection's Signals” by the late Captain Marryatt [ sic ] R.N., author of Peter Simple etc.
— from Excursions in Victorian Bibliography by Michael Sadleir

Southern border of United States, from Texas to Arizona and Lower California; Mexico, south to Costa Rica, Cuba and Jamaica, Oaxaca, highlands ( Scl. 1858, 305); Cordova (1856, 309); Jamaica ( Gosse , B. J. 304); Honduras ( Taylor , Ibis, II, 227); City of Mexico ( Scl.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway