Ex quibus multisque aliis perspicuum est, qui fructus quaeque utilitates ex rebus iis, quae sint inanimae, percipiantur, eas nos nullo modo sine hominum manu atque opera capere potuisse.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Exchange was effected by barter, cowries of different values being the prototype of coins, which were cast in greater or less quantity under each reign.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Memorabile quod Ulricus epistola refert Gregorium quum ex piscina quadam allata plus quam sex mille infantum capita vidisset, ingemuisse et decretum de coelibatu tantam caedis causam confesses condigno illud poenitentiae fructu purgasse.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

And when she was alone, Katherine gently touched the spot where his lips had pressed; there was a quite unknown emotion running through her.
— from The Career of Katherine Bush by Elinor Glyn

Do I sink back on the old, or do I soar from the mean? So through the city I wander and question, unsatisfied ever, Reverent so I accept, doubtful because I revere.
— from Amours De Voyage by Arthur Hugh Clough

143 See Testamentum Paracelsi, passim. 144 “Hispania, Portugallia, Anglia, Borussia, Lithuania, Polonia, Pannonia, Valachia, Transylvania, Croatia, Illyrico, immo omnibus totius Europæ nationibus peragratis, undeque non solum apud medicos, sed et chirurgos, tonsores, aniculas, magos, chymistas, nobiles ac ignobiles, optima, selectiora ac secretiora, quæ uspiam extarent remedia, inquisivi acriter.”
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 1 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson

[73] “Memorabile quod Ulricus epistola refert, Gregorium, quum ex piscina quadam allata plus quam sex mille infantum capita vidisset, ingemuisse.”— Burton , Anatomy of Melancholy , Part III.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 06 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

It is one of those spots into which a traveller drops quite unconsciously en route to somewhere else; and lingers a much longer time than circumstances would seem to justify.
— from The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

what cause : 'quid est, quod uoluntarii exitus rerum ad certum cogantur euentum?' endes , results: 'exitus;' and so again below.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7) — Boethius and Troilus by Geoffrey Chaucer

[36] A Christian prayer for a blessing on herbs runs thus:— “Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui ab initio mundi omnia instituisti et creasti tam arborum generibus quam herbarum seminibus quibus etiam benedictione tua benedicendo sanxisti eadem nunc benedictione olera aliosque fructus sanctificare ac benedicere digneris ut sumentibus ex eis sanitatem conferant mentis et corporis ac tutelam defensionis eternamque uitam per saluatorem animarum dominum nostrum iesum christum qui uiuit et regnat dominus in secula seculorum.
— from The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

So through the city I wander and question, unsatisfied ever, Reverent
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Their direct descendant is a woman; therefore she has married an Italian count, and flitted from this ideal, quite unparalleled eyry, returning to her ancestral home only at rare intervals.
— from Spanish Vistas by George Parsons Lathrop