Since my age has made me grow more pensive and morose, “Nemo enim resistit sibi, cum caeperit impelli,” [“For no man resists himself when he has begun to be driven forward.”—Seneca, Ep., 13.] for the most trivial cause imaginable, I irritate that humour, which afterwards nourishes and exasperates itself of its own motion; attracting and heaping up matter upon matter whereon to feed: “Stillicidi casus lapidem cavat:” [“The ever falling drop hollows out a stone.”—Lucretius, i. 314.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Aglaium Areadum pauperrimum Apollo praetulit, qui terminos agri sui nunquam excesserat, rure suo contentus.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

More than twenty years had elapsed since the question had been mooted; and though the discussion had left upon Lord de Mowbray an impression from which at times he had never entirely recovered, still circumstances had occurred since the last proceedings which gave him a moral if not a legal conviction that he should be disturbed no more.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

For it seems incredible that the species or rays of the celestial bodies can pass through the immense interval between them and us in an instant, or that they do not even require some considerable portion of time.”
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville

Presumably there was a complaint of some sort, but the only record of the incident is one in verse sung by Désaugiers as follows: “Bon voyage, Cher du Mollet, A Saint-Malo débarquez sans naufrage, Et revenez si ce pays vous plait.”
— from Rambles in Brittany by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

[Pg 359] Sur quoy enqueste & information eussent été faites de la forme & maniere iceluy homicide, par laquelle ledit procureur nous eust requis sur ce luy estre fait droit.
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans

The expense, though the fête was in nearly every respect similar, came to twenty thousand pounds.
— from Anecdotal Recollections of the Congress of Vienna by La Garde-Chambonas, Auguste Louis Charles, Comte de

North Edisto River, South Carolina.
— from Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare Containing a Complete and Concise Account of the Rise and Progress of Submarine Warfare by Charles William Sleeman