10 Igitur relicto custode regni Ptolemaeo filio annos xv nato exercitum in portu Tarentino exponit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

The trip would benefit health on account of the bracing ozone and be in every way thoroughly pleasurable, especially for a chap whose liver was out of order, seeing the different places along the route, Plymouth, Falmouth, Southampton and so on culminating in an instructive tour of the sights of the great metropolis, the spectacle of our modern Babylon where doubtless he would see the greatest improvement, tower, abbey, wealth of Park lane to renew acquaintance with.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The open places of the populace, And along the highways, O thou mightest see Of many a half-dead body the sagged limbs, Rough with squalor, wrapped around with rags, Perish from very nastiness, with naught
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

Even the poor relations paused for a moment from the indefatigable labors of the trencher, when the aunt, who had at first been struck speechless, wrung her hands and shrieked out, “The goblin!
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

' With such reflections proudly fraught, Our sage grew tired of mighty thought, And threw himself on Nature's lap, Beneath an oak,--to take his nap.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

Now—with this evident strain of vanity showing thus early—it was all the more fortunate that the room planned for her was plain and sensible, thought Miss Polly.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

These impinge upon the River Polisacus , flowing into the Northern Ocean in Lat.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Then Ráma, pure from every crime, In words well suited to the time To Lakshmaṇ spake, whose faithful zeal Watched humbly for his brother's weal: “I love this spacious cavern where There breathes a fresh and pleasant air.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Delphōs petiīt, ubī̆ columnās, quibus impositūrī statuās rēgis Perseī fuerant, suīs statuīs dēstināvit , L. 45, 27, 6, he went to Delphi, where he appropriated for his own statues the pillars on which they had intended to put statues of king Perses .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

" Sir Francis would have liked to read Phileas Fogg's eyes.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

In France, in the middle of the seventeenth century, women appear as actors; in England it was not until long after the death of her greatest dramatist that (in 1660) women could fill a rôle upon the stage without serious hindrance or molestation; in Japan, even now, play-acting is not looked upon as a respectable profession for women.
— from The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander Francis Chamberlain

She had a real passion for truth.
— from Julia France and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

I wish I could give some impression of the extraordinary strength and speed of this royal purple fish of the sea.
— from Tales of Fishes by Zane Grey

Perhaps four of carbonic acid, in every 100 cubic inches of air breathed, may be a tolerable approach to the truth; that is to say, that every six respirations produce four cubic inches of carbonic acid.
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 2 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson

When Wood crossed it in May it was not really practicable for horses, and the party made their way across with considerable difficulty.
— from The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative by Holdich, Thomas Hungerford, Sir

Richardson, provoked, fired at random into the mob, dangerously wounding one of them, Samuel Gore, and mortally wounding another, Christopher Snider, a poor German boy, who died the next morning.
— from The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution by James Henry Stark

Virginia accordingly pressed for the old and more southerly route, Pennsylvania for the northern line.
— from A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, Vol. V Canada—Part I, Historical by Lucas, Charles Prestwood, Sir