et noises et debats, Et tant soit peu l'etude.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

[U. S.]. draw in one's horns, eat one's words; eat the leek, swallow the leek; swerve, flinch, back out of, retrace one's steps, think better of it; come back return to one's first love; turn over a new leaf &c. (repent) 950. trim, shuffle, play fast and loose, blow hot and cold, coquet, be on the fence, straddle, bold with the hare but run with the hounds; nager entre deux eaux[Fr]; wait to see how the cat jumps, wait to see how the wind blows.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

When you say any one is miserable, you say that he who does not exist, does exist.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Potius doceret non esse aequam, quia non esset utilis rei publicae, quam, cum utilem non esse diceret, esse aequam fateretur.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

their, them Euain, v. to be moving Euddon, n. mites, acarus Euddoni, v. to breed mites Eugi, v. to bawl, to shriek Eulon, n. excrements, dung Euocâu, v. to make guilty Euod, n. worms in sheep’s liver Euog, a. guilty; false Euon, a. bots in horses Euraid, a. golden, of gold Euraidd, a. golden Euraint, n. that is of gold Eurben, n. the gilt head Eurdalaeth, n. golden coronet Eurdorch, n. a wreath of gold Eurdde, a. covered with gold Eurem, n. golden jewel Eurfaen, n. a chrysolite Eurfail, n. a golden goblet Eurfrodiad, n. golden brocade Eurgain, a. of golden brightness Eurgalch, n. gold enamel Eurgrawn, n. collection of gold; a golden treasure Euriad, n. a gilding Eurian, a. of gold, golden Eurlen, n. arras, gold leaf Eurliw, n. a gold colour Eurwedd, a. of golden hue Eurych, n. goldsmith; tinker Eurychaeth, n. goldsmith’s art; tinker’s trade Eurydd, n. a goldfiner Euryll, n. a jewel of gold Euryn, n. a golden trinket Ew, n. that glides; that is sleek or smooth Ewa, n. an uncle Ewach, n. a weakling, a fribble Ewaint, n. young people Ewerddon, n. a green spot of land, Ireland Ewi, v. to listen, to attend Ewiar, a. smooth; clear; sleek Ewig, n. a hind; a deer, a doe Ewin, n. a nail; a talon, a claw Ewinallt, n. a steep cliff Ewinbren, n. a guide, in carpentry Ewinfedd, n. a nail measure Ewingraff, a. sharp-clawed Ewingrwn, a. turned as a nail Ewino, v. to use the nails Ewinog, a. having nails, clawed Ewinor, n. a whitlow Ewinrew, n. nipping frost Ewinwasg, n. an agnail Ewn, a. daring, bold, brave Ewybr, a. quick, nimble, fleet Ewybraidd, a. of swift nature Ewybraw, v. to glance, to dart Ewybredd, n. velocity Ewybren, n. the firmament Ewybriad, n. a glancing Ewydn, a. tuff, clammy, viscous Ewydnaw, v. to grow viscous Ewyll, n. will, action of mind Ewylliad, n. a volition Ewyllio, v. to exert the will Ewyllys, n. will or desire Ewyllysgar, a. willing, desirous Ewyllysgarwch, n. willingness Ewyllysiwr, n. willer, desirer Ewyn, n. foam, spume, froth Ewynedd, n. foaminess Ewyngant, n. a surge Ewyniad, n. a foaming Ewynog, a. foamy, frothy Ewynu, v. to foam, to froth Ewythr, n. an uncle F, Is of a similar sound to the English V; and is used as a mutation of m. and B.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Whatever be the foreign commodity with which the foreign goods for home consumption are purchased, it can occasion no essential difference, either in the nature of the trade, or in the encouragement and support which it can give to the productive labour of the country from which it is carried on.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

We take certain classes of people to be better and others to be worse than the average, and without clearly expressing it we expect that the first class will not easily do evil nor the other good.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

And sometimes the more unscrupulous man is better esteemed than the more conscientious, because he has not equally deceived expectations.
— from Gorgias by Plato

peritum ethostis et regionum, brevi operae pretium facturum: et, [quibus artibus ad id locorum nostri et duces et exercitus capti forent], iis adversus inventorem usurum .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

This is, of course, the only evidence that ever can be available to prove the commencement of any series of phenomena; but, at the same time, it must be recollected that the value of negative evidence depends entirely on the amount of positive corroboration it receives.
— from Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life by Thomas Henry Huxley

Conviviarvm qvis nvmervs esse debeat [etc.]
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

For Emily no external dogma existed, and the tenor of her life had aided her in attaining independence of ignoble dictation.
— from A Life's Morning by George Gissing

From this river he caused a canal to be dug to the spot where the inundations began, and as the water of these was not everywhere deep enough for the transit of his boats, the canal between Bevern and Verrebroek was continued to Calloo, where it was met by the Scheldt.
— from History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 04 by Friedrich Schiller

Albie et districtus ejusdem ad nos et ad dictum episcopum equis partibus pertineant, nonnullique dicte civitatis pro heresis crimine fuerint condempnati, et per hujusmodi condempnationem bona ipsorum nobis et dicto episcopo confiscata; nihilominus tamen nostri et episcopi procuratores predicti debita que per nonnullas personas diversorum locorum dictis condempnatis debebantur, quorum obligationes in dicta civitate celebrate fuerunt et ibidem exsolvi promisse, voluerunt exigere et nostris et episcopi, ut decet, rationibus applicare, quidam barones, nobiles et prelati quibus dicti debitores sunt subditi, nitentes dicta debita per dictos suos subditos contracta, sibi applicare, dicentes quod ad eos pertinet confiscatio ipsorum debitorum, dictos procuratores in exactione debitorum hujusmodi impedire nituntur indebite, cum in dicta civitate contracta et solvi promissa, ut predicitur, fuerint, sicut dicunt: quare mandamus vobis et vestrum cuilibet, ut pertinebit ad eum, quatinus, si vocatis evocandis, summarie et de plano constiterit de premissis, dictos barones nobiles et prelatos ab impedimento predicto opportunis remediis desistere compellentes, predicta talia debita per dictos procuratores pro nobis et dicto episcopo levari et exigi, et debitores ad ea solvendum compelli permittatis et faciatis, ac ipsa exacta nobis et dicti episcopi rationibus applicari; et cum vos propter debatum hujusmodi de predictis debitis plura per manum nostram ut superiorem, levari et exigi fecisse dicamini, de quibus ipse episcopus partem ipsum contingentem non habuit, ut dicit; si premissa vera sint, de hac parte episcopum ipsum contingente, eidem expeditionem fieri faciatis.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

La seule excuse qu'un homme ait d'écrire c'est de s'écrire lui-même, de dévoiler aux autres la sort de monde qui se mire en son miroir individuel; sa seule excuse est d'être original; il doit dire des choses non encore dites, et les dire en une forme non encore formulée.
— from Instigations Together with An Essay on the Chinese Written Character by Ezra Pound

After that Frank called at the hut nearly every day, enquiring if the Parson had been seen anywhere abroad.
— from The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the Early Colonial Life of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, and Others Who Left Their Native Land and Never Returned by George Dunderdale

Nous, en detestation et horreur dudit cas, et afin d’exemplaire et gardé justice, avons dit, jugé, sentencié, prenoncé et appointé, que ledit pourceaulz estant detenu prisonnier et enferme en ladite abbaye, sera par le maistre des hautes-oeuvres, pendu et estranglé, en une fourche de bois, auprès et joignant des fourchee patibulaires et haultes justices desdits relligieux, estant auprès de leur cense d’Avin....
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans