Itaque in probris maxime in promptu est si quid tale dici potest: Inc. inc. fab., Ribbeck 2 , 210 "Vós enim, [54] iuvenes, ánimum geritis múliebrem, ílla" virgo "viri" [55] et
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

A man is perpetually eating.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Tum autem ventus erat perfidus et puerī magnō in perīculō erant.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

He thus describes the operation of suturing the abdominal parietes: Sutura autem neque summae cutis neque interioris membranae per se satis proficit; sed utriusque: et quidem duobus linis iniicienda est, spissior quam alibi; quia et rumpi facilius motu ventris potest, et non aeque magnis inflammationibus pars ea exposita est.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

My opinions were indeed in many and most important points erroneous; but my heart was single.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The most important political events at this time are the death of Oswy and succession of Egfrid in Northumbria in 670 or 671, and the death of Egbert and succession of Hlothere in Kent in 673.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Images of them are made in porcelain, earthenware, roots, wood, metals.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Of this tyranny of jealousy read more in Parthenius Erot. cap.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It may be useful for purposes of instruction to assume that the planets move in perfect ellipses: but what we want, as astronomers, to know is the actual motion of the stars, and its causes: and similarly as moralists we naturally inquire what ought to be done in the actual world in which we live.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

[342:3] The word Initiations is borrowed from the new Constitution, and can only mean, in plain English, introductory matter.
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

awmills in France up to November 30, 1918, would build completely enough barrack buildings 20 feet wide to stretch out to a distance of 600 miles if placed end to end, quarters enough for 3,107,600 men.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell

He wondered if she would want to make it permanent, even on a throne....
— from Space Viking by H. Beam Piper

He had a large stock and dairy farm, operated it successfully, and had made it pay every year.
— from The Unexploited West A Compilation of all of the authentic information available at the present time as to the Natural Resources of the Unexploited Regions of Northern Canada by Ernest J. Chambers

'My owner has urgent business with your owner,' was what the flags meant in plain English.
— from The Diva's Ruby by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Furthermore, the loss of the small claw on the second digit might not be important because, as Bader and Hall (1960:15) have pointed out, limbs of bats vary more in phenotypic expression than do other parts of the skeletal structure.
— from Systematics of Megachiropteran Bats in the Solomon Islands by Carleton J. Phillips

Whether he knew of Strauss’s argument or not when he wrote “Saul,” his treatment of the story of David and Saul is not only entirely in sympathy with the creed of the German school of mythical interpreters, but the poet himself [Pg 52] becomes one of the myth makers in the series of prophets—that is, he takes the idea, the Messianic idea, poetically embellishes an old tradition, making it glow with humanness, throws into that idea not only a content beyond that which David could have dreamed of, but suggests a purely psychical origin of the Messianic idea itself in keeping with his own thought on the subject.
— from Browning and His Century by Helen Archibald Clarke

The country there was rich and beautiful, but what made its possession especially desirable was the fact that it was the strategic key to the great West.
— from Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" by William Worthington Fowler

They knew that fortunes had been made in procuring elephants’ tusks, and also that the teeth of the hippopotamus were the finest of ivory, and commanded a price four times greater than any other sent to the European market.
— from The Giraffe Hunters by Mayne Reid

It would give them scope, it would facilitate that conversion into white marble in progress everywhere, it would settle the difficulties of the Elevated railroad and clear out the tangles of lower New York.
— from The Future in America: A Search After Realities by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells