The history of the subject entails nothing short of the actual story of the beginnings and development of exact thinking in man.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

<siete, e non so io perche', nel mondo gramo>>, diss'elli a noi, <— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

" At this Jove was much troubled and answered, "I shall have trouble if you set me quarrelling with Juno, for she will provoke me with her taunting speeches; even now she is always railing at me before the other gods and accusing me of giving aid to the Trojans.
— from The Iliad by Homer

She expended no small amount of ingenuity in a sort of weeding process of her lodgers, announcing her intention of receiving henceforward none but people who were in every way select.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

The crusty gentleman, who, from the solemnity of his delivery, expected something extraordinary, no sooner heard his conclusion, than he started up in a testy humour, crying, “Pshaw, pshaw!
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Satis enim nobis, si modo in philosophia aliquid profecimus, persuasum esse debet, si omnes deos hominesque celare possimus, nihil tamen avare, nihil iniuste, nihil libidinose, nihil incontinenter esse faciendum.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

On the one hand were the picturesque hills, [5] commanding a prospect seldom equalled, never surpassed, of landscape varied with woodland, dell and meadow, through which the shining waters of the Powhatan were now visible, glowing like a sheet of fire, and now lost in the shadows of the towering forests, as it held its devious course beyond the reach of the reflected fires in the back ground.
— from The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 2 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by William Alexander Caruthers

I blushed at the compliment so artfully conveyed, and repeated stupidly enough, “—Not such Arabic as you use, O—Ayesha.”
— from She and Allan by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

'"Just a cold, sir," I said, easily; "nothing serious.
— from Chatterbox, 1906 by Various

"Th-that 's enough, now, Swanson," he commanded, the stutter largely vanishing before the requirement of deeds.
— from Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West by Randall Parrish

reverse my doom; Now double thy career, Strain every nerve, stretch every plume, And rest them when she's here!
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Still she smiled; even now she smiles, Though slaughter streams along her aisles: Minotti lifted his agéd eye, 960 And made the sign of a cross with a sigh, Then seized a torch which blazed thereby;
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

In your Remark upon the same Lines you say, “ Eusden no sooner died, but his Place of Laureat was supply’d by Cibber , in the Year 1730, on which was made the following Epigram.”
— from A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope by Colley Cibber