Note 110 ( return ) [ Aliquantum agrorum Daphnensibus dedit, (Pompey,) quo lucus ibi spatiosior fieret; delectatus amoenitate loci et aquarum abundantiz, Eutropius, vi. 14.
— 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

He thought of long conversations in which he had taken part quite lately in Moscow--conversations in which it had been maintained that one could live without love, that passionate love was an obsession, that finally there is no such love, but only a physical attraction between the sexes--and so on, in the same style; he remembered them and thought mournfully that if he were asked now what love was, he could not have found an answer.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

AA vesicam denotant cum liquore contento; quae vero in adultis duplo vel triplo amplior quam hic indicatur esse solet, pro libra circiter, et quo D excedit, liquoris continenda; BB tubulum sive fistulam osseam ano immittendam, per quam liquor in intestina iniicitur; CC vinculum superius, quod, postquam fistula in ano est, solvitur ac removetur; DD vinculum inferius, quo vesica clauditur, ne liquor immissus elabi queat (vol. ii.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

"Is this an extravagant fancy, or some mistake of the old man, an impossible quid pro quo?" "Let it be the latter, if you like," laughed Ivan, "since modern realism has so perverted your taste that you feel unable to realize anything from the world of fancy....
— from The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Las desviaciones del correo electrónico: personas mal educadas que se aprovechan de la distancia o de un cierto anonimato para decir cosas desagradables, o adoptar actitudes realmente pueriles, con consecuencias que, desgraciadamente, no son siempre las de un mundo de niños… Por ejemplo, un día, una persona aprovechó de qué le envié la copia de un mensaje - porque yo pensaba que le interesaría el tema - para intervenir entre mi correspendiente y yo, con el objeto de desacreditarme.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

407-432, with a good facsimile; but (as was natural under the unpromising circumstances— “ arrepta potius quam lecta ” is his own confession) Tregelles in 1845 was able to observe several points which he had overlooked, and more have come to light since Mai's edition has appeared.
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

Nec alium Eusebii interpretem quam ipsummet Eusebium proferimus, qui (l. iii.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Edward Gibbon

Physical Qualities : Light in weight, strong, elastic, hard; * shrinkage, 93 3 per cent.; warps ..........; durable, more so than other American hemlocks; easier to work than eastern variety; splits badly.
— from Wood and Forest by William Noyes

At the outset of an inquiry how far existing facts ought to be allowed to overrule ideas and principles that are at variance with them, a preliminary question lies in our way, about which it may be well to say something.
— from On Compromise by John Morley

We are forced to echo the words of the inventor himself in a previously quoted letter: "I am perfectly satisfied that, mysterious as it may seem to me, it has all been ordered in its minutest particulars in infinite wisdom."
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Physical Qualities : Light in weight (26th in this list); 30 lbs.
— from Wood and Forest by William Noyes

padri vi concedevano le figliuole, i mariti le mogliere, i fratelli le sorelle; e per sifatto modo senz' alcun riguardo molti concorreano all' amoroso ballo, che cosa stupendissima era riputata per qualunque l' intendeva.'
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds

A space station will permit quantum leaps in our research in science, communications, in metals, and in lifesaving medicines which could be manufactured only in space.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents