nõ ſonno cuſſi preſto caſcati ne lacqua q̃ queſti ſubito li piglianno et mangiano coſa in vero beliſſima de vedere.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Por eso, muchas ciudades han pasado de la era del petróleo a la edad de la electricidad.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

If you feel thus, we shall assuredly be happy, however present events may cast a gloom over us.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The interruption of that public exercise may consummate, in the period of a few years, the important work of a national revolution.
— 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

In some places each man carried his portion of flesh to the stream which watered his fields, and there hung it on a pole.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

It must make itself an interpreter of humanity and think esoteric dreams less beautiful than what the public eye might conceivably admire.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

You know they are very stylish people, especially Mrs. Chester Ross.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Pray excuse my costume.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Li` precedeva al benedetto vaso, trescando alzato, l'umile salmista, e piu` e men che
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

Ergo motio Dei efficax respectu cuiuscumque hominis in quibuslibet circumstantiis positi erit medium congruum et aptum, ut infallibiliter inducat effectum, ad quem ex Dei intentione datur. ”
— from Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle

Whatever church he may at certain periods of his life have preferred each might console itself with the reflection that none other possessed him more entirely.
— from History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 01 by Friedrich Schiller

Polygnotus et Micon celeberrimi pictores Athenis, e vinaceis facere: tryginon appellant.
— from The History of Ink, Including Its Etymology, Chemistry, and Bibliography by Thaddeus Davids

Pompeio et M. Crasso
— from C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino by Sallust

As an instance of their present excellence, Messrs. Crawshay’s colliery at Light Moor may be mentioned, for its great extent, completeness, powerful machinery, and size of its pits.
— from The Forest of Dean: An Historical and Descriptive Account by H. G. (Henry George) Nicholls

Modern criminal law looks primarily to the psychical origin of the deed, and only secondarily to its physical effects; mediæval criminal law ignored the origin altogether, and regarded exclusively the effects, which it dealt with on the homœopenal principle of similia similibus puniantur , for the most part blindly and brutally applied.
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans

He seems to have known personally every major Ch'an figure in China.
— from The Zen Experience by Thomas Hoover