clear; famous, renowned; bright, shining classis, -is , f. fleet claudô, -ere, -sî, -sus , shut, close clavus, -î , m. stripe cliêns, -entis , m. dependent, retainer, client ( § 465.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

All this, to me, is the “humanitarianism” of Christianity!—Parasitism as the only practice of the church; with its anæmic and “holy” ideals, sucking all the blood, all the love, all the hope out of life; the beyond as the will to deny all reality; the cross as the distinguishing mark of the most subterranean conspiracy ever heard of,—against health, beauty, well-being, intellect, kindness of soul— against life itself ....
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

While it deserves all the adjectives that have been applied to it by enthusiastic admirers,--finished, elegant, splendid, rounded, massive, sonorous, copious, elaborate, ornate, exhaustive,--it must be confessed, though one whispers the confession, that the style sometimes obscures our interest in the narrative.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Their trampled banners strewed the fields, And broken swords and spears and shields; And, crushed by blows which none might stay, Cars, elephants, and riders lay.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

But Trijaṭá, of softer mould, A Rákshas matron wise and old, With pity for the captive moved, In words like these the fiends reproved: “Me, me,” she cried, “eat me, but spare The spouse of Daśaratha's heir.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

I myself see clearly enough the crude, defective streaks in all the strata of the common people; the specimens and vast collections of the ignorant, the credulous, the unfit and uncouth, the incapable, and the very low and poor.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Before this I had already introduced it at a concert given by a private musical society called 'Euterpe', when I had conducted it myself.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

It is not strange that her latest constructions should inherit this relation to the will; and we shall see that the moral tone and affinity of metaphysical systems corresponds exactly with the primary function belonging to that type of idea on which they are based.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

If she discovered the secret it would then be time enough to make it known; meantime, she could enjoy the suggestion of a mystery without interference.
— from The Daring Twins: A Story for Young Folk by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The family of Winthrops of Groton Manor, Suffolk County, England, took its name by tradition, from the village of Winthrope, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire.
— from The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution by James Henry Stark

"The angel, Pity, shuns the walks of war!—— "Oh, spare ye War-hounds, spare their tender age!— "On me, on me," she cried, "exhaust your rage!"— Then with weak arms her weeping babes caress'd, 300 And sighing bid them in her blood-stain'd vest.
— from The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. by Erasmus Darwin

If the years and gods were but content To hold fame’s trophy from my reaching hand And give instead, the meed which heaven meant Should crown each woman’s life in every land.
— from Pleiades Club Year Book 1910 by Pleiades Club

Chests with scratched Gothic mouldings, tables of the trestle type as used to-day, forms of the most simple construction, exist, and may be said to belong to the sixteenth century. Bible-boxes became common during the early seventeenth century, and without change in their style were made till the late eighteenth century.
— from Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture by Arthur Hayden

"It would be bad judgment to call you young fellows mermaids," said Commander Ennerling, dryly, "but you are surely merboys ."
— from The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip "Making Good" as Young Experts by Victor G. Durham