But, being a man of fortitude, he bore his suffering a long time, thinking: “I shall expiate everything by this secret agony.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Inde prîmâ lûce proficîscentês Formiâs 13 properâvêrunt, ubi Cicerô, ôrâtor clarissimus, quî forte apud vîllam suam erat, eôs benignê excêpit.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

El portero cerró el ventanillo, y el tío Paciencia se sentó en el banco.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

“I'll drop in to dinner some evening en bon ami.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Then the plan of fighting, which they had directed equally against every part, being now relinquished, they all incline their forces towards one point; in that direction straining every effort both with their bodies and arms, they forced a passage by forming a wedge.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

It deserves to be added that the English church at Newmarket was, a few years back, to some extent endowed by a generous gift of valuable land made by Dr. Beswick, a bachelor medical man, whose large white house on a knoll by the wayside was always noted by the traveller from York as he turned aside from Yonge Street for Newmarket.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

That it was made the corner-stone of Christian theology may be to some extent explained by the principle of omne ignotum pro mirifico .
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Note 174 ( return ) [ Siquis sacrilega vitem falce succiderit, aut feracium ramorum foetus hebetaverit, quo delinet fidem Censuum, et mentiatur callide paupertatis ingenium, mox detectus capitale subibit exitium, et bona ejus in Fisci jura migrabunt.
— 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

The people of to-day, too intelligent to be misled or abused for selfish ends even by demigods, are ready, on the other hand, to comprehend and to follow with enthusiasm every better leading.
— from Equality by Edward Bellamy

The "Great Illusion," so effectively exposed by Norman Angell, is no longer universally entertained.
— from Personality in Literature by R. A. (Rolfe Arnold) Scott-James

The learning of S. Hilda was so highly esteemed that “more than once the holy abbess assisted at the deliberation of the bishops assembled in council or in synod, who wished to take the advice of her whom they considered so especially enlightened by the Holy Spirit.”
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

When I left home it seemed easy enough, but now it's awful—simply awful!"
— from Ann Boyd: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

No degradation must be inflicted upon this sacred element, even blowing it with the human breath is a crime, because the outgoing breath is unclean; burning the dead is therefore the most criminal act; in the time of Strabo [194] it was a capital crime, and the Avesta places it in the list of sins for which there is no atonement.
— from Persian Literature, Ancient and Modern by Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Armstrong) Reed

He had once a strange emotional experience, but when it was over he wished that it should not unduly influence him.
— from The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by Various

Item lego Leprosis Sti Egidii extra Barram de Holborn 40s , from which it is worth while to note, that the Lock beyond St. Georges Church, and that at Kingsland , are at this time applyed to no other use than for the Entertainment and Cure of such as have the Venereal-Malady .
— from A Collection of Chirurgical Tracts by William Beckett

More’s remark, “One lady asked what was the newest colour; the other answered that the most truly fashionable silk was a soupçon de vert , lined with a soupir etouffée et bradée de l’espérance ; now you must not consult your old-fashioned dictionary for the word espérance for you will there find that it means nothing but hope, whereas espérance in the new language of the time means rose-buds.”
— from Jane Austen and Her Times by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton