From the following passage in the writings of Tibullus, commentators have conjectured that he was deprived of his lands by the same proscription in which those of Virgil had been involved: Cui fuerant flavi ditantes ordine sulci Horrea, faecundas ad deficientia messes, Cuique pecus denso pascebant agmine colles, Et domino satis, et nimium furique lupoque: Nunc desiderium superest: nam cura novatur, Cum memor anteactos semper dolor admovet annos.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

[436] of common moral opinion: for when the question is once raised as to the precise mutual duties ( e.g. ) of husbands and wives, or of parents and children, each disputant commonly supports his view by a forecast of the effects on human happiness to be expected from the general establishment of any proposed rule; this seems to be the standard to which the matter is, by common consent, referred.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The citizens and soldiers (we know not from what cause) were animated with equal fury; several of the principal officers of Niger, who despaired of, or who disdained, a pardon, had thrown themselves into this last refuge: the fortifications were esteemed impregnable, and, in the defence of the place, a celebrated engineer displayed all the mechanic powers known to the ancients.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

[*] It is equally sure to set off every female perfection to the highest advantage, and to palliate and conceal every defect.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Suppose you had been Lord Chancellor; you would have delivered opinions with more extent of mind, and in a more ornamented manner, than perhaps any Chancellor ever did, or ever will do.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

The fact was that Tiretta kept the pious aunt curiously engaged during the whole time of the execution, and this, perhaps, was what prevented the virtuous lady from moving or even turning her head round.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Secondly, by giving a sort of monopoly of the home market to its own merchants, artificers, and manufacturers, it raises the rate of mercantile and manufacturing profit, in proportion to that of agricultural profit; and, consequently, either draws from agriculture a part of the capital which had before been employed in it, or hinders from going to it a part of what would otherwise have gone to it.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Garcaeus and Leovitius will have the chief judgment to be taken from the lord of the geniture, or where there is an aspect between the moon and Mercury, and neither behold the horoscope, or Saturn and Mars shall be lord of the present conjunction or opposition in Sagittarius or Pisces, of the sun or moon, such persons are commonly epileptic, dote, demoniacal, melancholy: but see more of these aphorisms in the above-named Pontanus.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

(p52) Nosotros, por nuestra parte, comprendiendo toda la predilección que nos demostraba en aquel momento el Sumo Pontífice, procurábamos expresarle con la mirada, con el gesto, con la actitud, nuestra veneración y piedad, así como el dolor
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Cantares fis algunos de los que disen los siegos e para escolares que andan nochernjegos e para muchos otros por puertas andariegos, caçurros e de bulrras, non cabrian en dyes priegos.
— from Chapters on Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

"What a queer girl's freak that was," murmured Prescott, and called Ensign Dave Darrin over to read the despatch.
— from Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants; or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

These chills-and-fever paroxysms occur at various intervals depending upon the character of the parasite inducing them, the most common form being that which produces a chill every day.
— from Health on the Farm: A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy) Harris

The still more serious issue is presented of asserting that both Paul and Christ either did not know that these were myths, or knowing so gave [127] no intimation that they used them in any way other than as true narratives.
— from The Other Side of Evolution: Its Effects and Fallacy by Alexander Patterson

One glass of wine kills nobody; and yet if a man falls, and knows that in that glass he sacrifices principle and conscience, every drop may be poison to the soul and body.
— from The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe

First of all, the shearers always insist on having their table spread with good things, puddings and cake every day.
— from Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) by Thorvald Peter Ludwig Weitemeyer

He had inserted advertisements for her in the papers, and came every day at the usual hour to find out if they had met with success.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

The average number of bank notes paid and cancelled each day is more than 40,000, and no less than 80,000,000 cancelled notes may be found as a rule, stored and sorted for reference, in the Bank Note Library.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, May 1885 by Various

(Cosas Memorables, fol. 155.) Pulgar, another contemporary, expressly declares that he executed no will, and quotes the words dictated by him to his secretary, in which he simply designates two of the grandees as "executors of his soul," ( albuceas de su anima ,) and four others in conjunction with them as the guardians of his daughter Joanna.
— from The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by William Hickling Prescott