Secutus est, qui in causa impia, victoria etiam foediore non singulorum civium bona publicaret, sed universas provincias regionesque uno calamitatis iure comprehenderet.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The land was forfeited for a failure to render the services for which it was granted; the service could be renounced for a breach of correlative duties on the part of the lord.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

She could be very happy.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

( Moniteur Newspaper, Nos. 271, 280, 294, Annee premiere; Moore's Journal, ii. 21, 157, &c. which, however, may perhaps, as in similar cases, be only a copy of the Newspaper. )
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

This skeleton of what it had once been was a sad spectacle as it lay lost under the waves, but sadder still was the sight of the bridge, where some corpses, bound with ropes, were still lying.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

This slowness follows from all the inhabitants of the same country being already so well adapted to each other, that new places in the polity of nature do not occur until after long intervals, due to the occurrence of physical changes of some kind, or through the immigration of new forms.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Sometimes the terrible jaws suddenly close, but not upon the audacious ape, who just escapes; then there are cries of exultation from the tormentors, who gambol about joyfully.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

But while her eyes were still turned upward, she became conscious of a moving shadow cast by the evening sun on the grassy path before her, and looked down with a startled gesture to see Philip Wakem, who first raised his hat, and then, blushing deeply, came forward to her and put out his hand.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

"Nor does it seem so to me," said Camors, bowing to Madame de Tecle.
— from Monsieur de Camors — Volume 1 by Octave Feuillet

650 See an interesting paper read before the London Chamber of Commerce in 1866, by Colonel C. Stewart, C. B., H. B. M. Consul-General at Odessa.
— from The Heart of Asia A history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times by Ross, E. Denison (Edward Denison), Sir

The points in breeding are exactly similar to those explained in connection with the preceding variety, and 53 need not be repeated, the best rule being to breed from the very best birds you can find on both sides, care being taken to obtain a rich, even ground-color in all cases.
— from The Book of the Hamburgs A Brief Treatise upon the Mating, Rearing and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The quality of his services cannot be expressed by pounds; but that brave body, which for forty years has been the instrument of that great soul, is a fit object for a nation’s care, as the achievements of the man are, or will one day be, the object of a nation’s pride and gratitude.
— from Curiosities of Science, Past and Present A Book for Old and Young by John Timbs

And it will be in vain that Tout son col secouera cette blanche agonie.
— from The Book of Masks by Remy de Gourmont

That it is assumed in some cases more for dignity than for actual need, is shown by the readiness with which it is discarded when convenient, and its bearer sits cheerfully bareheaded in the blazing sun.
— from India and the Indians by Edward Fenton Elwin

It seems incredible that such can be the case; yet it is the case.
— from America and the World War by Theodore Roosevelt

She was making a great effort to seem cheerful, but he saw that her smile was forced; and, with an assurance that he would see her again before he went to Washington, he shook hands cordially, and left her.
— from Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

Delica means weaned, so called because, though it resembles Lactarius vellereus in appearance, it is void of milk.
— from The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard