Cut up therefore cattle without stint and dress the meat and set out for these men a banquet in our camp: moreover also provide without stint bowls of unmixed wine and provisions of every kind; and having so done, leave behind the most worthless part of thy army and let the rest begin to retreat from the camp towards the river: for if I am not mistaken in my judgment, they when they see a quantity of good things will fall to the feast, and after that it remains for us to display great deeds.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

La société de l'information est simplement une version avancée (plus rapide, plus dure, plus impitoyable) de la société industrielle.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

d'une exactitude scrupuleuse dans la vue generale que j'en donne, car etant alle seul pour l'examiner je perdis mon crayon, et je fus oblige de m'en fier a ma memoire.
— from The Iliad by Homer

When a child sneezes, those near it usually say “dirgāyus” (long life), or “sathāyus” (a hundred years).
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Sako de la bona kafo , a sack of the good coffee . Vocabulary.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

The sole difference lay in the fact that he was more busily occupied than ever.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages, but the same flame burns in them all.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Come d'un stizzo verde ch'arso sia da l'un de'capi, che da l'altro geme e cigola per vento che va via, si` de la scheggia rotta usciva insieme parole e sangue; ond'io lasciai la cima cadere, e stetti come l'uom che teme.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The marquis reined his horse to the right side of the palanquin, and slightly leaning from his saddle— "Doña Laura," said he, "do you hear me?"
— from The Guide of the Desert by Gustave Aimard

And he remembered also, how when he met that lady some months afterwards she treated him with a cold indifference, indeed almost with an insolence, that quite bewildered him, making him wonder how the same person could show in such different lights, till at length, mortified and ashamed by his mistake, he had gone away in a rage and seen her face no more.
— from Beatrice by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

"Send Mr. Sherman's company sweepin' down frue dese yere parts to scare de rebels till dey flee like de Midians, and slew darselves to sabe dar lives.
— from Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens

[AO] Spectacle de la Nature, tome i.
— from Insect Architecture by James Rennie

Pinzón aparecía un hombre azul; brillaban en su cuerpo los botones como sartas de lucecillas.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós