The taking notice that men bestow the names of ‘virtue’ and ‘vice’ according to this rule of Reputation is all I have done, or can be laid to my charge to have done, towards the making vice virtue or virtue vice.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

[material vomited] vomit, vomitus[Med], puke, barf[coll].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

In medio virtus —Virtue lies in the mean.
— 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.

So also sentences introduced by certain conjunctive particles are occasionally put in the accusative with the infinitive: as, id quod saepe dictum est: ut mare ventōrum vī agitārī atque turbārī, sīc populum Rōmānum hominum sēditiōsōrum vōcibus concitārī , Clu.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

640 These lines are quoted again "On Moral Virtue," § vi. 641 "Iliad," xxiv.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

If all the poetry and nonsense that have been discharged upon the fountains and the bland scenery of this region were collected in a book, it would make a most valuable volume to burn.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

When asked for his opinion on the case, after a lapse of twenty-four years, Mr. Van Voorhis gave the following: There never before was a trial in the country of one-half the importance of this of Miss Anthony's.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

thou art safe Cast no more doubts.—Come, Mephistophilis, And bring glad tidings from great Lucifer;— Is't not midnight?—come, Mephistophilis, Veni, veni, Mephistophile! Enter MEPHISTOPHILIS.
— from The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 by Christopher Marlowe

ut a third volume of the old plays, containing the 'White Devil, 'Green's 'Tu Quoque,' and the 'Honest Whore,' perhaps the most valuable volume of them all— that I could not find.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

“Je vous aimais toute ma vie … vingt ans!”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I don't suppose that she was within a quarter of a mile of me when I began my yelling; but I was too much worked up to wait longer, and the result of my hurry was to make my voice very hoarse and feeble by the time that she really was within hail.
— from In the Sargasso Sea A Novel by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

“And bring back my daughter, Mr. Parker,” said Mrs. Van Velt, as placidly as though she had said spectacles or handkerchief.
— from Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905 by Various

The text is complete, but there are numerous interlinear and marginal corrections and additions, in the same handwriting as MS. VII. VI.
— from The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 5 (of 5) by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

When at last he went back to Turin, he fell once more into his old life of mere vacancy, varied before long by a most unworthy amour, of which he tells us that he finally cured himself by causing his servant to tie him in his chair, and so keep him a prisoner in his own house.
— from Modern Italian Poets; Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells

Why are Fort Myer, Arlington, and Mount Vernon very interesting to all citizens of the United States?
— from Great Cities of the United States Historical, Descriptive, Commercial, Industrial by Stephen Elliott Kramer

The other evening, at your own house, I considered your manners very vulgar and unbecoming.
— from The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Alphonse Daudet

The whole business seems to me very vulgar and in very bad taste.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

To me Virolet ? Vir.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 06 of 10 by John Fletcher