Appresso in questo loco Mise in assetto loco Li tigri, e li grifoni, Leofanti, e leoni Cammelli, e dragomene, Badalischi, e gene, E pantere, e castoro, Le formiche dell' oro, E tanti altri animali, Ch' io non so ben dir quail, Che son sì divisati, E sì dissomigliati Di corpo e di fazione, Di sì fera ragione, E di sì strana taglia, Ch'io non credo san faglia, Ch' alcun uomo vivente Potesse veramente Per lingua, o per scritture Recitar le figure Delle bestie, e gli uccelli….
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Corda non pinse mai da se' saetta che si` corresse via per l'aere snella, com'io vidi una nave piccioletta venir per l'acqua verso noi in quella, sotto 'l governo d'un sol galeoto, che gridava:
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

At the very least in terms of pleasure versus pain, light versus darkness, comfort versus terror, the flying moment must be loaded with obloquy or excellence if its passage is not to remain a dead fact, and to sink from the sphere of actuality altogether into that droning limbo of potentialities which we call matter.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

616 Alexandre remarks on this passage, “Variat pro locis hoc intervallum a nullo fere temporis
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Ceci est particulièrement vrai pour les sociétés impliquées dans la veille technologique (disons une société informatique qui souhaite connaître tous les articles de journaux
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Prudence, virtue, pride, love, every strong motive which can act upon the human mind, stimulated me to exert myself to prove that I was worthy of this most amiable woman.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth

He told the Chief Justice in conversation that Blanchette came and consulted him on the subject of publishing the paper, "Prenez vous par le bout du nez," and that having agreed that it would be very improper that it should appear, they went to Bédard, between whom and Blanchette there were very high words on the occasion.
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

Pride, vanity, prejudice, love, patriotism, and even vice itself, produces martyrs; or, at least, a contempt of every kind of danger.
— from Christianity Unveiled Being an Examination of the Principles and Effects of the Christian Religion by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

El mundo punto a punto van passando Los hombres por de dentro, y por defuera Como en anatomia examinando.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

Marcum Paulum Venetum PRAEFATIO, & || locupletissimi INDICES.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

But verie manie let not to affirme, that the gréedie corruption of the promoters on the one side, facilitie in dispensing with good lawes, and first breach of the same in the lawmakers & superiors, & priuat respects of their establishment on the other, are the greatest causes whie the inferiours regard no good order, being alwaies so redie to offend without anie facultie one waie, as they are otherwise to presume, vpon Principis longè magis exemplo quion culpa peccare solent.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

[227] et selon son obéyssance, il fault, Monsieur de Monluc, que, pour le bien de son service, comme il le vous commande expressément par ses lettres, que vous, qui estes son lieutenant-général par delà, faciez rompre celle qui s’est faicte sans permectre qu’ilz ayent aucune force, puissance ou authorité que celle que vous leur baillerez, ny aucune volunté que d’obéyr à ce que par vous, pour le bien du service du Roy monsieur mon filz, leur sera commandé; pour lequel effect j’en scriptz, comme faict le Roy monsieur mon filz, une lectre audit s r de Candalle et à tous ceulx qui y sont comprins, comme nous en avons esté bien amplement advertiz.
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

Quand bien le plus sera des votres, si passerez vous par là, &c.)
— from History of the Great Reformation, Volume 4 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

Brasseur de Bourbourg , Popol Vuh , p. lxiii.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft