In other cases we may incorrectly suppose certain expressions to stand for certain things.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

me in supremis consolatus est!
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

I know I shall do it again to-morrow; I know that I am in her power for always; if I never saw her again I should never think of anybody else during all my life; I must follow her as a needle follows a magnet; I would not go away now if I could; I could not leave her, my legs would not carry me, but my mind is still clear enough, and in my mind I hate her—at least, I think so.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

[45] So Cyprian ( Contra Demetrianum ) says, "Pœnam de adversis mundi ille sentit, cui et lætitia et gloria omnis in mundo est."
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

After staying there a few months I seemed, curiously enough, to be drawn as by an invisible hand towards Vienna.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

This is an aptitude very contrary to his nature, and of which a man is scarcely capable except when he makes part of a crowd.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

And in some places this spiritual meaning is so clearly expressed, that it would require a blindness like that which the flesh imposes on the spirit when it is subdued by it, not to recognise it.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

— N. importance, consequence, moment, prominence, consideration, mark, materialness. import, significance, concern; emphasis, interest.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

So that I may say their ignorance is a cause of their superstition, a symptom, and madness itself: Supplicii causa est, sappliciumque sui.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Lorelei had always made a confidant of her mother in such cases, even to the repetition of whole conversations; but this time the latter's inquisitiveness grated on her, and she answered the questions put to her grudgingly.
— from The Auction Block by Rex Beach

Manape, it seemed, cried easily, like a child.
— from Astounding Stories, June, 1931 by Various

Interim dum hec agebantur, fratres minores inter se contulerunt, et habito consilio miserunt ad priorem provincialem gratias agentes de sua oblacione, rogantes quod frater Salomon, ex quo conscienciam suam non deponit nec culpam suam recognoscere proponit, pro mutua pace concilianda et servanda, de loco, ex quo pacem perturbavit, amoveretur.
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

[23] In a letter to a friend, Browning wrote:--"I hope and believe that one or two careful readings of the Poem [Ferishtah's Fancies] will make its sense clear enough.
— from Life of Robert Browning by William Sharp

Three weeks after the letter was written the two bishops went to Kensington and examined the little maiden in "Scripture, catechism, English history, Latin, and arithmetic."
— from In the Days of Queen Victoria by Eva March Tappan

Frequent cases of theft by Basuto servants from their Dutch masters are brought up for trial all over the country, and upon investigation the greater number prove to have been committed by those who, despairing of ever receiving the wages due to them for months (in some cases even years) of labour, resort to this method of drawing attention to their case.
— from Basutoland: Its Legends and Customs by Minnie Martin

Inquiries which he had made in Fillby—both from men in Scarsmoor Castle employ and from independent persons—had convinced him that Lynborough’s case was strong.
— from Tales of two people by Anthony Hope

If “grouping” were prohibited, and the nearest collieries or works could supply all the coal or goods which were required, railway companies might, in some cases, earn as much net profit on the traffic carried as if grouping were adopted.
— from Railway Rates: English and Foreign by James Grierson

"To rightly divide his time, be adopted the following simple expedient: he procured as much wax as weighed seventy-two pennyweights, which he commanded to be made into six candles, each twelve inches in length, with the divisions of inches distinctly marked upon it.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

The firm of F. Laeisz, which was successfully owned by its founder, Ferdinand, his son Carl, and his grandson Carl Ferdinand, has stood sponsor to all the more important shipping companies established in Hamburg, and through its great authority helped them all to get over the critical years of their early youth.
— from Albert Ballin by Bernhard Huldermann