[323] istum p c, Edd.; iustum B H a b. [324] esset p c, Edd.; est B H a b.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

In a single generation nearly two thousand public coffeehouses, each a center of sociability, sprang up in London alone, and the number of private clubs is quite as astonishing.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

In this war period, commercial economy became a fetish in the business world; and coffee packers worked to save not only material, but shipping space, labor, and time.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

She added that I might send it to her by her mother, who had recovered her usual health, and was in the habit of attending early mass at her parish church every day by herself.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Neither of the old parties' nominees for President can escape obligation to these old-party bosses or shake their practical hold on many and powerful members of the National Legislature.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

“Oh, yes; it was most delicious, and then I thought it was my pretty cousin, even after I awoke, which made it doubly delightful, for I had no idea it would be so nice with another boy.”
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Ita clausae pharmacis ut non possunt coitum exercere.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Poor conversers excuse themselves for not trying to improve by saying that "good talkers are born, not made."
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

That there were a great many robberies and wicked practices committed even in this dreadful time I do not deny.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

For, in the absence of this supposition, it could not expect its ideas to produce certain effects in the world of experience.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

—Expression empruntée de l'Anglais, où elle est formée de pick , choisir, et nick , instant précis, et signifie choix judicieux où tout se rencontre bien.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 175, March 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Poor Constance endeavoured to console her father while the officers were searching in every corner and cranny of the house.
— from Villegagnon: A Tale of the Huguenot Persecution by William Henry Giles Kingston

—There were none bold enough to dissent from the proposition that revenue must be provided to pay current expenses and discharge the public debt.
— from History of the United States by Mary Ritter Beard

Pour le coup le petit Chose eut une peur terrible; il se voyait déjà dans la rue, sans ressources....
— from Le Petit Chose (Histoire d'un Enfant) by Alphonse Daudet

Such village residence was the character of the Epirots [412] universally, and prevailed throughout Hellas itself, in those very early and even ante-Homeric times upon which Thucydidês looked back as deplorably barbarous;—times of universal poverty and insecurity,—absence of pacific intercourse,—petty warfare and plunder, compelling every man to pass his life armed,—endless migration without any local attachments.
— from History of Greece, Volume 02 (of 12) by George Grote

Not only is physical culture essential for the husband, but it is equally important for the wife, who is even more likely to underestimate its value and neglect it altogether, unless she is encouraged to physical effort and bodily exercise by the husband.
— from What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Sylvanus Stall

—A shrub, with hooked thorns, leaves alternate, petiolate, coriaceous, entire, 3-nerved, 2 thorny stipules, one of them crooked.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera