I wanted to go to Aquila—the opposite of Rome in every respect, and actually founded in a spirit of hostility towards that city, just as I also shall found a city some day, as a memento of an atheist and genuine enemy of the Church, a person very closely related to me, the great Hohenstaufen, the Emperor Frederick II.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It gives No. 4, the Heaven, practically as in this edition, but puts another cut under it in which the earth is revolving about the sun; and after the statement of Comenius, “ Coelum rotatur, et ambit terram, in medio stantem ” interpolates: “ prout veteres crediderunt; recentiores enim defendunt motum terrae circa solem ”
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

[specific coverings: list] veneer, facing; overlay; plate, silver plate, gold plate, copper plate; engobe[obs3]; ormolu; Sheffield plate; pavement; coating, paint; varnish &c. (resin) 356a; plating, barrel plating, anointing &c. v.; enamel; epitaxial deposition[Engin], vapor deposition; ground, whitewash, plaster, spackel, stucco, compo; cerement; ointment &c. (grease)
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

After a triennial indulgence of lust, rapine, and cruelty, Verres, the tyrant of Sicily, could only be sued for the pecuniary restitution of three hundred thousand pounds sterling; and such was the temper of the laws, the judges, and perhaps the accuser himself, 183 that, on refunding a thirteenth part of his plunder, Verres could retire to an easy and luxurious exile.
— 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

This story of a famous and great philosopher very clearly represents to us that studious passion that puts us upon the pursuit of things, of the acquisition of which we despair.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

As you read it through, underline the principal verb, clearly REPERTI SUNT , and bracket qui to vulnerarent .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

After a triennial indulgence of lust, rapine, and cruelty, Verres, the tyrant of Sicily, could only be sued for the pecuniary restitution of three hundred thousand pounds sterling; and such was the temper of the laws, the judges, and perhaps the accuser himself, that, on refunding a thirteenth part of his plunder, Verres could retire to an easy and luxurious exile.
— 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

Experiments of this kind succeeding in a great many somnambulists, and usually producing very curious results, have long been known and have been repeated, one might say, almost to satiety within the last few years.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The primitive vapour congealed, remained inactive for a time, and then produced living beings, beginning with the formation of Mu Kung, the purest substance of the Eastern Air, and sovereign of the active male principle yang and of all the countries of the East.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

He also thinks that Balbus did not penetrate beyond the fifteenth degree of north latitude, and that his conquests did not extend so far south as the banks of Lake Tchad. 3448 The site of Garama still bears the name of ‘Gherma,’ and presents very considerable remains of antiquity.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

"On still another island, about a hundred miles from Hili-li, but on about the same meridian—that is to say, in the same warm air-current, though the heat of the current was there much diminished by dilution—the party visited certain ruins which had always greatly puzzled the Hili-lites.
— from A Strange Discovery by Charles Romyn Dake

They were retailers as well as wholesalers and had shops selling honey, licorice, salt, vinegar, rice, sugar loaves, syrups, spices, garden seeds, dyes, alum, soap, brimstone, paper, varnish, canvas, rope, musk, incense, treacle of Genoa, and mercury.
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

A large force of men was employed upon the construction of a solid board fence, three miles 22 in extent, surrounding the property of the firm between the Pittsburgh, Virginia & Charleston railroad and the Monongahela river.
— from Homestead A Complete History of the Struggle of July, 1892, between the Carnegie-Steel Company, Limited, and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers by Arthur Gordon Burgoyne

All the boats save the largest whaler were cast adrift, as if kept in tow they would have made a great difference in the submarine's speed, and anxious to fall in with the piratical "Vorwartz," Captain Restronguet ordered a course to be shaped for Zanzibar at the utmost capacity of the "Aphrodite's" motors. CHAPTER XXIV.
— from The Rival Submarines by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

We found the species breeding near Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, on February 19, June 18, July 13, and July 31.
— from Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William Edward Duellman

Then he was very anxious to have a canal made across Holstein so that Prussian vessels could reach the North Sea without passing the Sound; and of course he had to consider the military protection on the north.
— from Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire by James Wycliffe Headlam

Rogatus cur ſæpè per viam caneret, reſpondet.
— from The Odes of Casimire, Translated by G. Hils by Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski

Tourmaline (33a), when free from flaws, is, in some of its varieties, to be classed with the precious stones; among these being a pink variety called Rubellite.
— from British Museum (Natural History) General Guide by British Museum (Natural History)

An individual of S. puma from 7.5 kilometers west of Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, produced a primary note followed by one secondary note; each note had major frequencies at 600 and 1800 cps.; the dominant frequency of the primary note was at 1800 cps., whereas in the secondary note the dominant frequency was at 600 cps.
— from Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William Edward Duellman

Whether Richard the Third, with his hunch back, withered arm, splay feet, goggle eyes, and swarthy countenance, as portrayed by poets and chroniclers of the Tudor period, very closely resembles the Richard of Baynard's Castle and Bosworth Field, is a question which philosophical historians have answered in the negative.
— from The Wars of the Roses; or, Stories of the Struggle of York and Lancaster by John G. (John George) Edgar