Ita infecta pace ex colloquio ad suos cum se recepissent, frustra verba praelata renuntiant: armis decernendum esse habendamque eam fortunam, quam dei dedissent.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Before they had left Northumbria, they deposed Egbert, whom they had placed on the throne, and put Recsige, a Danish earl, in his room.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses by Anonymous

Main line of N. P. runs almost directly E. to W. across the State.
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota

One afternoon the bells were peremptorily rung and Des Esseintes commanded his trunks to be packed for a long voyage.
— from Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

This zeal appears to show that the advocates of this theory are rather anxious about their own conscience, since plain reason and daily experience are but little in favor of an assumption which can only be supported on theoretical grounds.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

It digs, spins, weaves, saws, planes, grinds, plows, reaps, and does everything it is asked to do.
— from Among the Forces by Henry White Warren

“Lots of people running around doing exciting things?” “No,” admitted Marie.
— from Winona of the Camp Fire by Margaret Widdemer

It explains why inquisitors labored so strenuously and often so cruelly to make the penitent remember and declare everything testified against him—what they termed satisfying the evidence.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2 by Henry Charles Lea

Many of our penetration readings are dim, even with our most advanced sensors."
— from The Universe — or Nothing by Meyer Moldeven

It was evident that all had taken the lesson to heart, and had felt the bullets of the defenders, for up to a little while ago they had, in the manner of Eastern people, recklessly and defiantly exposed themselves, standing fully erect to discharge their weapons.
— from In the grip of the Mullah: A tale of adventure in Somaliland by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton