In quo neutrorum omnino contemnenda sententia est, sed et facilior et tutior et minus aliis gravis aut molesta vita est otiosorum, fructuosior autem hominum generi et ad claritatem amplitudinemque aptior eorum, qui se ad
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

He said evenly, softly, "Easy, friend."
— from The Common Man by Mack Reynolds

He is dazed by the light on all sides: everything sparkles, everything flashes, beams issue everywhere: from the walls, from the vessels, from the angels, from the judges!
— from The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century by Leo Wiener

We must reduce our volume to the simple evangelists, select, even from them, the very words only of Jesus, paring off the amphiboligisms into which they have been led, by forgetting often, or not understanding, what had fallen from him, by giving their own misconceptions as his dicta, and expressing unintelligibly for others what they had not understood themselves.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson

With the two Cossacks as partners she executed some extraordinary figures in what I suppose I must call a polka.
— from In the Russian Ranks: A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland by John Morse

This seat was made of a single enormous stone, eleven feet long, and seven broad.
— from The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León