You will see the vast and fertile plains, the thick, shady mountains, the immense pasturage for cattle, and ships sailing over the deep with incredible celerity; nor are our discoveries only on the face of the earth, but in its secret recesses there are many useful things, which being made for man, by man alone are discovered.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Arrangements have been made to take on board at Leghorn a pilot for Caprera, and, if practicable, a call will be made there to visit the home of Garibaldi.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

He now arrived in the land of the people formerly called Ariaspians, but afterwards named Euergetae, because they assisted Cyrus, son of Cambyses, in his invasion of Scythia.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

(See Note A) 25 Miles road (city) at £4,000 a mile £100,000 £2,500 ( „ B) 6 miles additional roads, country estate at £1,200 7,200 350 ( „ C) Circular railway and bridges, 5½ miles at £3,000 16,500 1,500 (maintenance only) ( „ D) Schools for 6,400 children, or ⅕ of the total population, at £12 per school place for capital account, and £3 maintenance, etc. 76,800 19,200 ( „ E) Town Hall 10,000 2,000 ( „ F) Library 10,000 600 ( „ G)
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

Similarly, in the pluperfect, fueram , &c.: as, arma quae fīxa in parietibus fuerant, ea sunt humī inventa , Div.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

COLSTAFF, cowlstaff, pole for carrying a cowl=tub.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

I felt the greatest eagerness to hear the promised narrative, partly from curiosity, and partly from a strong desire to ameliorate his fate, if it were in my power.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The fragrant odour of the wine, O how much more dainty, pleasant, laughing (Riant, priant, friant.), celestial and delicious it is, than that smell of oil!
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The youngest and largest plant family, comprising about seven hundred and fifty genera and ten thousand species, highly specialized for insect pollination, easily recognized as a whole, but many of its members difficult to distinguish.
— from Field Book of Western Wild Flowers by Margaret Armstrong

Mr. Redmayne's silkworms were descended, through countless generations, from those historic eggs stolen by Nestorian pilgrims from China, and carried thence secretly in hollow canes to Constantinople some thirteen hundred years before.
— from The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts

"Yes, open it," repeated Captain Barry, his puzzled face clearing at the prospect of action on his part.
— from The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Morgan Robertson

No one who has not seen a public fête celebrated at Paris can form an idea of the scene which the whole of this extensive area presents: it makes me giddy even to remember it.
— from Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1) by Frances Milton Trollope

At the Major's gate, whom should she see coming out but the dear old fellow himself, and, when he got off his horse and came to her, she leaned forward and kissed him, because he looked so thin and pale from confinement, and because she was so glad to see him.
— from The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by Fox, John, Jr.

So much depends on this last determination, that last year through the kindness of Colonel Fisher, R.E., the assistance of a party of sappers was procured from Chatham, and the mound was thoroughly explored.
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson

There are times when one should control one’s passion for candour; and as I was saying, Christmas waits excite no emotion in my breast save that of irritation.
— from The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

The whole of nature was alive to the poets of the Veda, the presence of the gods was felt everywhere, and in that sentiment of the presence of the gods there was a germ of religious morality, sufficiently strong, it would seem, to restrain people from committing as it were before the eyes of their gods what they were ashamed to commit before the eyes of men.
— from India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

The melancholy business of parting with my wife was again to be gone through; but on this occasion I was favoured by being permitted to accompany her to London, where, parting from her with a heavy heart, I took my place for Chichester, at which place my detachment would be quartered next day, on their way to Portsmouth.
— from Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees