Why didn't you come to the nice party we had at Carrie's last evening I remember she invited you.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

"But, Lady Eleanore, in requital of that harm, if such there be, and for your own earthly and heavenly welfare, I pray you to take one sip of this holy wine and then to pass the goblet round among the guests.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It freezes the water to prevent it running to the sea; it drives the sap out of the trees till they are frozen to their mighty hearts; and most ferociously and terribly of all does the Wild harry and crush into submission man—man who is the most restless of life, ever in revolt against the dictum that all movement must in the end come to the cessation of movement.
— from White Fang by Jack London

Qua parte locatus es in re : and what thou shalt be, what thou mayst be.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

—.Relative, chastity, a fundamental and shrewd caution in regard to erotica, even in thought, may be a reasonable mode of life even in richly equipped and perfect natures.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

They perceived that these continued insults and swift-following punishments must at last end in real persecution. Eulogius, on the contrary, who set himself to answer their objections with texts out of the Bible and the Lives of the Saints, coveted such a result, and the zealots desired nothing better than the fire of persecution.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

Cocono Lo rizo in queſto modo prima meteno dent o in pigniate de terra como le nr̃e vna fogla grande che circunda tuta la pigniata poy li meteno lacque et iL rizo
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

The legate got little enough in return for his sesterces, but Phoebicius did not restore his wages of sin, and his rage against me knew no bounds when he was transferred to the oasis at the instigation of his betrayed chief.
— from Homo Sum — Volume 04 by Georg Ebers

The British army, alarmed by the inroads of barbarians, and actuated by a spirit of revolt against Roman authority, set up three local emperors in rapid succession: Marcus, Gratian, and Constantine.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

"I have read many things," continued his wife calmly, "but I have never read anything like the description of the scene at the opera-house last evening; it really made me long to see her."
— from A Mad Love by Charlotte M. Brame

“It may be mentioned that as respects the horses’ shoes, attention has long been called to its defects by Sir Francis Head and others, but Sir Joseph Whitworth now points out the achievement of a decided and important improvement, which will have a large effect in road conservancy, as well as the reduction of noise.
— from The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's Handbook by H. Percy (Henry Percy) Boulnois

The sacred memory of mother and sister; the wisdom and dignity of women of my own religious communion who have been accustomed to something like equality in rights as well as duties; my experience as a co-worker with noble and self-sacrificing women, as graceful and helpful in their household duties as firm and courageous in their public advocacy of unpopular truth; the steady friendships which have inspired and strengthened me, and the reverence and respect which I feel for human nature, irrespective of sex, compel me to look with something more than acquiescence on the efforts you are making.
— from Reform and Politics Part 2 from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII by John Greenleaf Whittier

It likewise extended its regulations to the common welfare of the whole, as one kingdom under the special direction of Jehovah; and provided that on all great occasions they should have the means of readily uniting their counsels and their strength.
— from Palestine, or, the Holy Land: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Michael Russell

Thus in time we shall know, if only we do What lifts, ennobles, is right and true.
— from The Rosicrucian Mysteries: An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings by Max Heindel

But this tongue was strongly reinforced by Greek loan-words, and as it was rendered in writing by the Greek alphabet it is difficult to say how much of the native linguistic element it really represents.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Lewis Spence

Then, after pointing out that “of this sect were the greater part of those ungracious people who lately entered into Rome with the Duke of Bourbon,” Sir Thomas More details at considerable length the horrors committed during that sack of the Eternal City; adding: “For this purpose I rehearse to you these their heavy mischievous dealings, that you may perceive by their deeds what good comes of their sect.
— from The Eve of the Reformation Studies in the Religious Life and Thought of the English people in the Period Preceding the Rejection of the Roman jurisdiction by Henry VIII by Francis Aidan Gasquet

Lady Eustace, I really think that I should—kill him, if he really were—were my husband."
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope