[Eheu! quantas strages paravere verba nubila, quae tot dicunt ut nihil dicunt;—nubes potius, e quibus et in rebus politicis et in ecclesia turbines et tonitrua erumpunt!]
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Then Bharat rose at early morn, And in his noble chariot borne Drove forward at a rapid pace Eager to look on Ráma's face.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

[xxv] In other respects Pug exhibits only the characteristics of the inheritor of the devil’s comedy part, the butt or clown.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Then the young folk repair to a wood, cut down a small fir-tree, peel the trunk, and deck it with festoons of evergreens, paper roses, painted egg-shells, motley bits of cloth, and so forth.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

But besides this feeling of respect, Pfuel evoked pity in Prince Andrew.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Good is she also when men contend at the games, for there too the goddess is with them and profits them: and he who by might and strength gets the victory wins the rich prize easily with joy, and brings glory to his parents.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

sē quod ē rē pūblicā esset factūrum , L. 28, 45,3, that he would do what should be for the interests of the state ( 1766 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

pronto para la cita, [13] para la reminiscencia, para el dato, para la imagen.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Note 57 ( return ) [ Plin. Epistol.
— 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

It was the spirit of God that moved, moves still, in every form of real power, everywhere.
— from Plato and Platonism by Walter Pater

"Fifteen minutes from the mouth of the river to Split Rock Point!" exclaimed the principal, looking at his watch.
— from All Taut; or, Rigging the boat by Oliver Optic

Hadrian had expected Antinous many hours since, and the impatience and vexation which had been long seething in him were reflected plainly enough in his sternly-bent brow and the threatening fire of his eye.
— from The Emperor — Complete by Georg Ebers

First, a bank of delicate gauges was assembled to record precisely every electrical reaction that took place inside the sphere.
— from Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X by Appleton, Victor, II

As a rule people eat too much.
— from The Century Handbook of Writing by Easley S. (Easley Stephen) Jones

But a voice from the tower, restraining her from this rash purpose, explained how by a certain cave she might reach the realm of Pluto; how she might avoid the peril of the road, pass by Cerberus, and prevail on Charon to take her across the black river and bring her back again.
— from The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855) by Thomas Bulfinch