cuckoo &c. (imitation) 19; reverberation &c. 408; drumming &c. (roll) 407; renewal &c. (restoration) 660. twice-told tale; old story, old song; second edition, new edition; reappearance, reproduction, recursion [Comp]; periodicity &c. 138.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

[49] en muchos puntos flaquease la «Amalia», porque su estilo no es rigurosamente académico, ni el plan del drama está trazado con precisión; no obstante, lo que allí aparece rebelde a la exigencia artística, es muchas veces lo que mejor expresa un carácter o acaba de acentuar un acontecimiento.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

2. Multos conjugium decepit, res alioqui salutaris et necessaria, eo quod caeco ejus amore decepti, divini amoris et gloriae studium in universum abjecerunt; plurimos cibus et potus perdit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Ammianus (xxii. 8, 33): “A contrario per cavillationem Pontus Euxinus adpellatur, et euethen Graeci dicimus stultum, et noctem euphronen et furias Eumenidas.”
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Et me ab amore tuo deducet nulla senectus, Sive ego Tythonus, sive ego Nestor ero.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Scipio etsi non exsul neque 20 damnatus, die tamen dicta, ad quam non adfuerat reus, absens citatus, voluntarium non sibimet ipse solum sed etiam funeri suo exsilium indixit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

"Because," said Lord Henry, passing beneath his nostrils the gilt trellis of an open vinaigrette box, "one can survive everything nowadays except that.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Origen, disputing against Celsus, says to him: "If, when invoking God, or swearing by Him, you call Him 'the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,' you will by those words do things, the nature and force of which are such that the evil spirits submit to those who pronounce them; but if you call him by another name, as 'God of the roaring sea,' etc., no effect will be produced.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 09 by Voltaire

no se escribió nunca el sublime epitafio de Esparta: “Murieron en la creencia de que la felicidad
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

But while thus luxuriously inclined, he had no disposition for gross debauch: and the presence of ladies at all his entertainments, while it seemed to give to them a new zest, banished from his house that riotous dissipation into which mere male gatherings are so certain to sink; and which in times past, in New England, made the idea of gross dissipation almost inseparable from that of social enjoyment, nor even yet is the distinction between them fully apprehended by every body.
— from Homes of American Statesmen; With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various

Then the democracy conquered in questions of principle, and in return for that victory conceded the highest offices of state to its two confederates; now it had become more practical and grasped the supreme civil and military power for itself, while concessions were made to its allies only in subordinate points and, significantly enough, not even the old demand of Pompeius for a second consulship was attended to.
— from The History of Rome, Book V The Establishment of the Military Monarchy by Theodor Mommsen

157 A comment of the Nashville Banner was: From a logical point of view that looks beyond immediate emergencies, the southern whites should encourage negro emigration to the North, not for the cynical motives that impelled the late Hon.
— from Negro Migration during the War by Emmett J. (Emmett Jay) Scott

The air was balmy, no wind blew, and a universal quiet prevailed when suddenly Jack uttered several exclamations not entirely in harmony with the moment.
— from A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

It would not know the duality of conscience which permeates our life and stifles every noble effort.
— from Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Various