The Florentine people required expression more simple and direct, movement more brusque, emotion of a coarser fiber.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 1 by John Addington Symonds

Reddiderant dubiam jam sera crepuscula lucem, Cum circumgreditur totam Tricoronifer urbem, Panificosque Deos portat, scapulisque virorum Evehitur, praeeunt summisso poplite reges, Et mendicantum series longissima fratrum; Cereaque in manibus gestant funalia caeci, Cimmeriis nati in tenebris, vitamque trahentes.
— from Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton by John Milton

[523] 'Sume dicationem, si bonus fuero, pro Republica et me: si malus, pro Republica in me.'
— from The Letters of Cassiodorus Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Senator Cassiodorus

As William—that was my second and the boy's own father—used to say when I talked of the child following any other trade: 'Bring up the foal to the shafts and don't try to teach him to drive a wheelbarrow.'" "He was perfectly right; each man should follow the line for which he is best suited.
— from The Outcaste by F. E. (Fanny Emily) Penny

The former must foresee everything, and while not making their precautions ridiculously elaborate, must see that they are at least adequate.
— from Indian Tales by Rudyard Kipling

We would give the preference to primitive rock, especially micaceous schist and mountain limestone.
— from On Naval Timber and Arboriculture With Critical Notes on Authors who have Recently Treated the Subject of Planting by Patrick Matthew

Pellett, Rev. Egerton, Mich. Swindling, “too free with sisters;” fled. 1878 Peck, Rev. H. P. Napa, Cal.
— from Crimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada by M. E. Billings

Birds And Mammals Threatened With Extinction The second question submitted in my inquiry produced results even more startling than the first.
— from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday