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retrorsum et vidit Iesum stantem
Haec cum dixisset, conversa est retrorsum, et vidit Iesum stantem: et non sciebat quia Iesus est.
— from The Gospel of St. John by Joseph MacRory

recently extinct volcanoes in Spain
000, around which town are grouped the most recently extinct volcanoes in Spain.
— from Spain by Wentworth Webster

rolling eyeballs veined in scarlet
"For a moment I seemed to see the interior of my own skull, lighted as by a flash of fire; the rolling eyeballs, veined in scarlet, the glistening muscles quivering along the jaw, the humid masses of the convoluted brain; then awful darkness—a darkness almost tangible—an utter blackness, through which now seemed to creep a thin, silver thread, like a river crawling across a world—like a thought gliding to the brain—like a song, a thin, sharp song which some distant voice was singing—which I was singing.
— from In Search of the Unknown by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

renovaturus extinguat viribus ista se
ult.:— "Cum tempus advenerit, quo se mundus renovaturus extinguat, viribus ista se suis cedent, et sidera sideribus incurrent, et omni flagrante materia uno igne quicquid nunc ex disposito lucet, ardebit."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various


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