Abderitanos vero tanquam non sanos accusavi, veratri potione ipsos potius eguisse dicens.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Je ne suis pas ici pour enfiler des perles
— from French Idioms and Proverbs A Companion to Deshumbert's "Dictionary of Difficulties" by de (Vinchelés Payen-Payne) V. Payen-Payne

The party in power earnestly desired to relieve the public danger and distress, and, by order of the Senate, the commission continued the distribution of lands.
— from A Manual of Ancient History by M. E. (Mary Elsie) Thalheimer

The whole village—blacksmith, grocer, baker, and clothier included, turned out en masse , upon the occasion; for, with an indisputable position in political economy, deriving their gains directly or indirectly from this pursuit, the cause was, in fact, a cause in common.
— from Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms

His friend Daniel, however, who was sure always to be by him, particularly at a late hour in the evenings, relieved him from his trouble by telling him that there was an English paper printed in Paris every day, ‘Galignani’s Messenger,’ which republished nearly all the murders, and rapes, and robberies, &c. from the ‘Times;’ and also, which would make it doubly interesting, those which were daily occurring in Paris.
— from Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 2 (of 2) being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian Collection by George Catlin

I well remember my first attempt at making soil rich and thinking how I would surprise my grandmother, who worked about her plants in pots every day of her life, and still did not have them as big as they grew in the flower garden.
— from Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse by F. F. (Frederick Frye) Rockwell

[175] Compare a parallel passage in Prévost et Dumas:—"At the very first sight one will be struck with the resemblance between the forms of the very early embryos of these two classes, a resemblance so extraordinary that one cannot refuse to admit the conclusions resulting from it.
— from Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

Let us not forget, however, that one of the most indefatigable of the class, after various and many voyages by sea, and travels by land, in quest of the picturesque in political economy, did, indeed—or says so, and has compiled a book to prove it—light on this long-sought, never-before discovered land, in whose Arcadian bowers sits enthroned the very genius of trade, free and unfettered as the eagle in his eyry on the crowning crest of St Gotthard.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various

Many of our profession are not so conversant with science as the world may think: and some of us are a little disposed to grasp at authority in a public examination, by giving a quick and decided opinion, where it should have been guarded with doubt; a character which no man should be ambitious to acquire, who in his profession is presumed every day to be deciding nice questions upon which the life of a patient may depend.
— from On the uncertainty of the signs of murder in the case of bastard children by William Hunter

In some places it proves extremely destructive to the poultry of the settler, though it will also eat carcass, or dead fish—in short, anything.
— from Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found: A Book of Zoology for Boys by Mayne Reid