When these terms had been agreed upon, he pierced the wall in the place where the machine was going to approach it, and ordered all to bring forth from both public and private sources all the water, excrement, and filth, and to pour it in front of the wall through pipes projecting through this opening.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

and the cudgel will leap forth among the people, and play such a dance on their backs that they will not be able to stir or move for a week, and it will not leave off until thou sayest, 'Into the sack, Cudgel!'"
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Et non prohibetur a persecutoribus, sed a principibus Christianis.
— 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

A man who is perfectly at himself does not throw cold detraction at people’s architectural productions and picturesque surroundings, and let on that what he prefers is a Dubbonese dust-storm and a pleasing degree of respectful familiarity.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

They declared that Charras was the man called Vincent, displayed passports and papers, swore and protested.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

In a similar way inflect the perfect and pluperfect subjunctive active of cūrō , iubeō , sūmō , iaciō , mūniō .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Universal conceptions, as things to take account of, may be as real for pragmatism as particular sensations are.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

“And is it possible that this frightful combination of crimes has been invented by a woman?” “Do you recollect in the arbor of the Hôtel des Postes, at Perugia, seeing a man in a brown cloak, whom your stepmother was questioning upon aqua tofana ?
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Al Daleh, Shabwah, and the capital city of Sana'a Yugoslavia: 2 republics (republike, singular - republika); and 2 nominally autonomous provinces* (autonomn pokrajine, singular - autonomna pokrajina); Kosovo*, Montenegro, Serbia, Vojvodina* Zambia: 9 provinces; Central, Copperbelt, Eastern, Luapula, Lusaka, Northern, North-Western, Southern, Western Zimbabwe: 8 provinces and 2 cities* with provincial status; Bulawayo*, Harare*, Manicaland, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, Mashonaland West, Masvingo, Matabeleland North, Matabeleland South, Midlands Taiwan: since in the past the authorities claimed to be the government of all China, the central administrative divisions include the provinces of Fu-chien (some 20 offshore islands of Fujian Province including Quemoy and Matsu) and Taiwan (the island of Taiwan and the Pescadores islands); note - the more commonly referenced administrative divisions are those of Taiwan Province - 16 counties (hsien, singular and plural), 5 municipalities* (shih, singular and plural), and 2 special municipalities**
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

California swore and prayed, and Portland shouted advice, and I did all three for what appeared to be half a day, but was in reality a little over a quarter of an hour, and sullenly our fish came home with spurts of temper, dashes head-on, and sarabands in the air; but home to the bank came he, and the remorseless reel gathered up the thread of his life inch by inch.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

My father-in-law and I puttered and pounded, strengthened and tightened, until we felt our semi-trailer was in good-enough order.
— from Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin by Carl Weschcke

Not satisfied with their location, pastor and people sought an inland home, and in 1660 laid the foundations of what is now the large and flourishing town of Norwich.
— from The History of Dartmouth College by Baxter Perry Smith

Mark Twain's interest in Satan would seem later to have extended to his relatives, for there are at least three bulky manuscripts in which he has attempted to set down some episodes in the life of one "Young Satan," a nephew, who appears to have visited among the planets and promoted some astonishing adventures in Austria several centuries ago.
— from Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900 by Albert Bigelow Paine

We went through the warerooms with Mr. Gay, and as I feasted my eyes upon piece after piece, set after set, of Chippendale, Sheraton, Heppelwhite, and Adam, I asked Mr. Gay about the renaissance which is upon us.
— from Abroad at Home: American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Julian Street

It was night, a summer night, mild, full of perfumes and peaceful sounds, and with a moon, white and serene, high in the blue, luminous, transparent heavens.
— from Romantic legends of Spain by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

At one place a private soldier, a man of education by his speech, came running across the street at sight of him.
— from My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form by Frederick Palmer

The man with the side-whiskers, who for some time had been attentively watching the porpoises at play, sighed and, shaking his head, remarked: "What a stupid fish!"
— from Tales of Two Countries by Maksim Gorky