I have said already, that on a subject so important to us all as happiness, we should listen with pleasure to any man’s experience or experiments, even though he were but a plough-boy, who cannot be supposed to have ploughed very deep into such an intractable soil as that of human pains and pleasures, or to have conducted his researches upon any very enlightened principles.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

So have the Brissotins, public or private Opinion, and Breakfasts in the Place Vendome decided it.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Quam ob rem necessaria praesidia vitae debentur iis maxime, quos ante dixi, vita autem victusque communis, consilia, sermones, cohortationes, consolationes, interdum etiam obiurgationes in amicitiis vigent maxime, estque ea iucundissima amicitia, quam similitudo morum coniugavit.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

[273] illud quidem honestum, quod proprie vereque dicitur, id in sapientibus est solis neque a virtute divelli umquam potest; in iis autem, in quibus sapientia perfecta non est, ipsum illud quidem perfectum honestum nullo modo, similitudines honesti esse possunt.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

—You have here two principal verbs, doluit , invidit , joined by aut , and a principal subject ille .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

171 La señora se puso verde de ira.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

A figure , which does not express by its position the sentiments and passions, by which we suppose it animated, will appear to indicate that its muscles are not obedient to its will, and the painter very deficient in judgment.
— from A Treatise on Painting by da Vinci Leonardo

Lastly, it may be mentioned that, at the instance of Lord Dawson of Penn, a highly qualified and representative committee of medical men, with Lord Trevethin as chairman, has been appointed in England to report to the Minister of Health upon "the best medical measures for preventing venereal disease in the civil community, having regard to administrative practicability, including cost."
— from Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Health appointed by the Hon. Minister of Health by New Zealand. Committee of the Board of Health

On the 12th of May the Commune, now inspired by the spirit of destruction, ordered the levelling of the famous column in the Place Vendôme, describing it as a symbol of brute force and false glory.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 06 (of 15), French by Charles Morris

To the circle of the plebeian nobility new -gentes- doubtless were from time to time added; but the old plebian houses, such as the Licinii, Fulvii, Atilii, Domitii, Marcii, Junii, predominate very decidedly in the Fasti throughout three centuries.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

Perhaps this final effect in the mind of him who has realized the happiness of which the poor priest vainly dreamed is not the least tragic phase of the tragedy of Don Ippolito.
— from A Foregone Conclusion by William Dean Howells

Habitat ubique in sterilibus arvis: "Planta vix datur in qua evidentius perspicitur generationis opus, quam in hujus cavo apertoque stigmate."
— from Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew by John Ruskin

Accoustremens de plumes, venuz des Indes, présentées de par l'Empereur a Madame a Bruxelles, le xx e jour
— from The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Eleanor E. Tremayne

The larva also lives in rotten wood; it is too scarce ever to prove very destructive in houses.
— from Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

Synonyms: barbarism, expression, patois, vernacular, dialect, idiom, speech, vocabulary.
— from English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald