“Me!” repeated Edmond, slightly changing color, “and wherefore, I pray?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Athens, even long after the decline of the Roman empire, still continued the seat of learning, politeness, and wisdom.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Note 3 ( return ) [ Eadem semper causa Germanis transcendendi in Gallias libido atque avaritiae et mutandae sedis amor; ut relictis paludibus et solitudinibus, suis, fecundissimum hoc solum vosque ipsos possiderent....
— 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

What would be the value of a god who knew nothing of anger, revenge, envy, scorn, cunning, violence?
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The differences between the simple primitive narrative of Gautama's experiences in attaining Buddhahood, and the richly embroidered story current in later ages, may be seen by reading, first, Atkinson's Prince Sidartha, the Japanese Buddha, and then Arnold's Light of Asia.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Atque haec benignitas etiam rei publicae est utilis, redimi e servitute captos, locupletari tenuiores; quod quidem volgo solitum fieri ab ordine nostro in oratione Crassi scriptum copiose videmus.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

While I was resting ever so comfortably on a rampart, and cooling my baking head in the delicious breeze, an officious guide belonging to another party came up and said: “Senor, that high hill yonder is called the Queen’s Chair—” “Sir, I am a helpless orphan in a foreign land.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

That he could cubiculorum obductas foras recludere et secreta cordium penetrare , which [388] Cyprian desired, open doors and locks, shoot bolts, as Lucian's Gallus did with a feather of his tail: or Gyges' invisible ring, or some rare perspective glass, or Otacousticon , which would so multiply species, that a man might hear and see all at once (as [389] Martianus Capella's Jupiter did in a spear which he held in his hand, which did present unto him all that was daily done upon the face of the earth), observe cuckolds' horns, forgeries of alchemists, the philosopher's stone, new projectors, &c., and all those works of darkness, foolish vows, hopes, fears and wishes, what a deal of laughter would it have afforded?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The Dance of the Nations Though Mrs. Morrison made the most rigid enquiries she could get no information as to who had placed the lamp in the window.
— from A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Angela Brazil

(See Rittenhouse & Evans, surveying compass.)
— from Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers by Silvio A. Bedini

They strolled down the main street of Hereford across the railroad tracks to where the "Brisket," as the cowboys styled the little town's tenderloin, huddled its collection of shacks, with their false fronts faced to the dusty street and their rear entrances, still cumbered with cases of empty bottles and idle kegs, turned to the almost dry bed of the creek.
— from Rimrock Trail by Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan)

De miraculis quatuor fratrum occisorum Est autem consuetudo in terra illa, quòd corpora mortua non traduntur sepulturæ, sed in campis dimittuntur, et ex calore Solis citò resoluuntur, et sic consumantur: Corpora autem trium fratrum praedictorum per 14.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt

Of the paladins the most popular was Roland or Rowland, who survives as Rowe , Rowlinson , Rolls , Rollit , etc., sometimes coalescing with the derivations of Raoul, another epic hero.
— from The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley

Ludimur Asteri , Umbris amicorum; & doloso Verba simul placuêre fuco, VV’ Are mock’d with ’baytes that fortune fling s And fed with th’empty husks of things: Shadowes, not friends we entertaine; W’are pleas’d with the deceitfull traine Res esse stulti credimus.
— from The Odes of Casimire, Translated by G. Hils by Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski

Cæsarea autem celsitudo (cui Creator omnipotens tantam suppeditauit potentiam, et quæ omnes supplices exaudire dignata est) supplicatione Regis Poloniæ non accepta, iterùm in regem Poloniæ exercitum suum mittere, et Creatoris omnipotentis auxilio regnum eius subuertere constituerat.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt