Lancers themselves are not sharp enough to resist their last enemy, nor can life-guardsmen parry the stroke of death .”
— from Soldiers and Sailors or, Anecdotes, Details, and Recollections of Naval and Military Life, as Related to His Nephews, by an Old Officer. by Old Humphrey

LONDON EVELEIGH NASH COMPANY LIMITED 1921 Copyright in the U. S. A.
— from Domesday Book by Edgar Lee Masters

e non par che noi vediamo lume, che la nuvola dell'amor propio ci ha tolto il lume, e non ci lassa vedere; per questo siamo atti a recevere ogni male informazione che ci [Pg 397] fusse data contra la verità dagli amatori di loro medesimi: ma se averemo il lume non sarà così ma con grande prudenzia e timore santo di Dio, vorrete cognoscere ed investigare questa verità per uomini di conscienzia e di scienzia.
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 1 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

Et ecce in breui, paruulus ex iis gignebatur, nascebatur, et adolescebat ad debitam quantitatem: fiunt verò omnes per naturam cum pluribus angulis vt trium vel quatuor, aut quinque laterum, et nonnulli cum lateribus senis.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

No legal document involving the ownership of the largest estate, no cherished love letter filled with vows of undying affection, shall be more carefully guarded!
— from Capitola the Madcap by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

Neutrality depends on the fact of war; when, for any cause, that fact no longer exists, neutrality ceases likewise, of course.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various