—I have a Note on this very epitaph, made several years since, from whence extracted I know not; but there is an English version attached, which may prove interesting to some readers, as it exactly imitates the style of the Latin: cur- f- w- d- dis- and p- "A -sed -iend -rought -eath ease -ain.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Pres. regendus sim , sīs , sit regendī sīmus , sītis , sint Imp. regendus essem , essēs , esset regendī essēmus , essētis , essent Perf.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Virgines vestales, et sacrum ignem Romae extinxit, et omnes ubique per orbem terrae religiones, unum hoc studens ut solus deus coleretur.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Hoping, then, to see you here very soon, "I remain," etc., etc.
— from The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines by Kirk Munroe

Since it requires electricity equivalent to that in activity during a thunderstorm to form one drop of water, what must that power have been which the Omnipotent wielded when he created that deep over the face of which ‘darkness brooded.’
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

In works of art she is represented either enthroned beside him, or driving with him in a chariot drawn by sea-horses or other fabulous creatures of the deep, and attended by Tritons and Nereids.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

In the successive arts, as music, the dramatic art, &c. , proportion ( Maassvolle ) is an essential condition of beauty, more than in the simultaneous arts; and an artist whose technique is altogether perfect, and who can succeed in reproducing every emotion of the mind in his work, is a true artist only when he never transgresses by an excess of passion the fine boundary lines of beauty.
— from The Voice in Singing by Emma Seiler

It is more broken and undulating; the range of vision, at times apparently boundless in the southern state, is rarely extensive, except from the summit of a kopje, being usually bounded by the low ridge-lines of one of those great, gentle, almost imperceptible, rolls of the ground which are a feature of the Transvaal veld, and with its hidden watercourses, its peculiar tactical danger.
— from History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office

her n sampt derselbig en relionszvorwant en irem vorigen erbitten nach inzulassen aber die ko nigliche may estä t kont nicht befind en dasz sulchesz vorstentnisz der geg en hulff halben deren sich die chur vnd fursten sampt iren relionszvorwantt en erbiten theten die glichait oder reciprocu m mit sich breichte derhalben were der ko niglichen may estä t genedigesz beger en ob die gesant en nach ferner befelich hetten der gege n hulff oder reciproci halben dasz sie
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman

Wedding-rings are bought up for fear of accidents, and the marriage service is rehearsed every evening before going to bed.
— from The Comic Almanack, Volume 2 (of 2) An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett