Olives (?), pears, apples, peaches, apricots, mulberries, grapes, currants, and melons, all exceedingly large in size and of a delicious flavour, are produced in great variety and abundance….
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Whether or not he can give the principal parts of the principal irregular Greek verbs I do not know, but his place in the history of his country, and in the annals of wars for independence, cannot, and for the honor of human nature should not, be a small one.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Pigmæi gigantum humeris impositi plusquam ipsi gigantes vident —Dwarfs on a giant's back see more than the giant himself.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Nam et Pyrrhus ipse graviter vulneratus est, et magna pars militum eius caesa, maioremque gloriam eius victoriae quam laetitiam habuit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

A great love of bright colors and a wonderful knowledge of how to combine them, a comparatively few patterns used over and over in all kinds of ways, and a preference for designs that illustrate some story or idea or that appeal to their sense of the funny—it’s a good deal more childlike than what passes in Greenwich Village for the childlike in art.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

See for instance the passage in Galen, v. p. 17 (ed. Kühn)
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

(iii) The notices in the Galatian Epistle, which appear to M. Renan to favour his view, are these: ( a ) St Paul appears to have ‘had intimate relations with the Galatian Church, at least as intimate as with the Corinthians and Thessalonians,’ whereas St Luke disposes of the Apostle’s preaching in Galatia very summarily, unless the communities of Lycaonia and Pisidia be included.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

They on their parts waived all ceremony, and pegged away at the sausages and potatoes, and remembering Tom's performance in goal, voted East's new crony a brick.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Leibnitz praying is grand, Voltaire adoring is fine.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

'Once,' he replied, 'when in the agony of pain, I gave vent to shouting girls, in the hope, perchance, I did not then know, of its being able to alleviate the soreness.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

A. No; the participation in elections, in the court, or in the government, is a participation in governmental violence.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You / Christianity and Patriotism / Miscellanies by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

To speake hir language, and to giue hir note Of all the treasure that rich tongue containes: Wherein I cannot but admire your paines In gathering vp this vniuersall store, And furniture of words for euery arte, And skill of man: So that there seem's no more Beyond this search, that knowledge can impart.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

5. Give examples of wealth never becoming a direct cause of gratification, yet whose possession is greatly valued.
— from The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems by Frank A. (Frank Albert) Fetter

The truth is, that, as they had sat in the Common Room over their port, the Rev. Mr. Philpotts had repeated himself a great many times; and, the Sub-Warden's mind at last beginning to wander, he had said to himself, as he looked at his glass and then at his old friend, "Really, Philpotts is getting very heavy!
— from The Youth of Parnassus, and Other Stories by Logan Pearsall Smith

High unemployment exacerbates the serious crime problem, including gang violence that is fueled by the drug trade.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

It attacks glass and silica, for which reason it cannot be preserved in glass vessels.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

The echelon order possesses in general very great advantages.
— from Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. by H. W. (Henry Wager) Halleck

The seventeenth century was a great time for them, and the work of this period is generally very good.
— from Quilts: Their Story and How to Make Them by Marie D. (Marie Daugherty) Webster