—Por lo tanto, [9] la falda opuesta de la meseta, es decir el borde que mira hacia el Pacífico, no recibiendo esos vientos, debe de ser más árida.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

7. Castra autem nōn oppugnāvit quia mīlitēs erant dēfessī et locus difficilis.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Omnia profecto, cum se a cœlestibus rebus referet ad humanas, excelsius magnificentiusque et dicet et sentiet —When a man descends from heavenly things to human, he will certainly both speak and feel more loftily and nobly on every theme.
— 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.

Recently, on being shown a deer which had been killed by her brother, she was greatly distressed, and asked sorrowfully, "Why must everything die, even the fleet-footed deer?"
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Morren, F.W. Koffiecultuur in Guatemale, met aanteekeningen betreffende de overige cultures de mijnen en den economischen toestand van deze republiek.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Just as the Buddhists in the north, the Jaïnists, or at least certain of them, have come back to a sort of deism; in the inscriptions of Dekhan there is mention of a Jinapati , a sort of supreme Jina, who is called the primary creator; but such language, says the same author, is "in contradiction to the most explicit declarations extracted from their most authorized writings."
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

I consequently confound the possible abstraction of my empirically determined existence with the supposed consciousness of a possible separate existence of my thinking self; and I believe that I cognize what is substantial in myself as a transcendental subject, when I have nothing more in thought than the unity of consciousness, which lies at the basis of all determination of cognition.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

As, therefore, a musical ear detects even the slightest falsity of tone in a harp, so we, if we wish to be keen and careful observers of moral faults, shall often draw important conclusions from trifles.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Should you have occasion then to communicate with me, your letters can come to me daily by being put into the Fredericksburg mail, every day except that on which the mail stage leaves Richmond for Milton, by which letters of that day will come to me directly.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 5 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

After explaining the simple principles of electricity, it shows how these principles are used and combined to make electricity do every-day work.
— from Things a Boy Should Know About Electricity Second Edition by Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John

SNAIL, SNAIL, COME OUT OF YOUR HOLE Limako, ho limako mia, Elvenu do el truo via!
— from Facts in Jingles by Winifred Sackville Stoner

Two of the most important propositions of His Holiness the Pope more especially deserve earnest consideration.
— from England, Canada and the Great War by L. G. (Louis Georges) Desjardins

Aware of the importance of this movement, Edward dispatched Earl Warrenne with 10,000 foot and 1,000 horse, to recover the castle.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses by Anonymous

In addition to what has been stated in this volume and elsewhere by me on the Barbara Frietchie ballad, are to be finally appended a few words, suggested by the one who sent the raw material of the ballad to [Pg 364] Whittier, namely, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, who, soon after the poet's death, at her pretty home in Georgetown, D. C., recalled the circumstances as they occurred back in 1863.
— from John Greenleaf Whittier: His Life, Genius, and Writings by William Sloane Kennedy

O quam tristis et afflicta Fuit illa benedicta Mater Unigeniti, Quae moerebat et dolebat Et tremebat, cum videbat Nati poenas inclyti.
— from Hymni ecclesiae by John Henry Newman

"Thus, my excellent Daish, each solemn nightfall will discover for us a new world, and, when the sun rises on the merry unknown streets of our pilgrimage, we shall think to ourselves what a vast number of jolly people exist in this remarkably jolly world.
— from The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie

The editors are Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, author of "The Old Homestead," "Fashion and Famine," and Charles J. Peterson, author of "Kate Aylesford," "The Valley Farm," etc., etc.; and they are assisted by Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, author of "The Lost Heiress," "Vivia," "Retribution," etc., etc.; by Alice Carey, Mrs. Denison, Miss Townsend, Miss Fairfield, Carry Stanley, Clara Moreton, Hetty Holyoke, and by all the most popular female writers of America.
— from Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-five Receipts, Facts, Directions, etc. in the Useful, Ornamental, and Domestic Arts by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale