Les passions personelles se lassent et s'usent; les passions publiques jamais —Private passions tire and exhaust themselves; public ones never.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

In ipso autem oculo nonnunquam summa attolitur tunica, sive ruptis intus membranis aliquibus sive laxatis; et similis figura acino fit:
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

There were large bottles filled with serpents, ticketed according to their species; dried lizards shone like emeralds set in great squares of black wood, and bunches of wild odoriferous herbs, doubtless possessed of virtues unknown to common men, were fastened to the ceiling and hung down in the corners of the apartment.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Why did she love everything so tenderly and so passionately, everything living that was not a man?
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

“Upon this discovery I was so sanguine as to consider the enigma solved; for the phrase ‘main branch, seventh limb, east side,’ could refer only to the position of the skull upon the tree, while ‘shoot from the left eye of the death’s head’ admitted, also, of but one interpretation, in regard to a search for buried treasure.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

She was no longer herself but a woman, with a woman’s clinging need; and though she leaned ever so lightly, the need seemed satisfied.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Roma dividitur, quarum quatuor integræ manebant, tres solo tenus dejectæ: septem reliquis pauca testorum vestigia supererant, lacera et semiusta.
— 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

“Yes, he told us so last evening,” said Priscilla, seeing that outraged Anne would not answer.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

There lie buried in this Friars church, amongst others, Edward, first son to Joan, mother to King Richard II.; Guy de Mericke, Earl of St. Paule; Lucie, Countess of Kent, and one of the heirs of Barnabie Lord of Millaine, with an epitaph; Dame Ide, wife to Sir Thomas West; Dame Margaret West; Stephen Lindericle, esquire; Sir Humfrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, Lord of Brekenake; [154] Richard, the great Earl of Arundell, Surrey, and Warren, beheaded, 1397; Sir Edward Arundell, and Dame Elizabeth his wife; Sir Francis Atcourt, [155] Earl of Pembrooke, which married Alice, sister to the Earl of Oxford; Dame Lucie Knowles, of Kent; Sir Peter Garinsers, of France; the Lord John Vere, Earl of Oxford, beheaded on the Tower hill 1463; Aubrey de Vere, son and heir to the Earl of Oxford; Sir Thomas Tudnam, knight; William Bourser; Lord Fitz Warren; Sir Thomas de la Lande, knight; Dame Joan Norris, the Lady of Bedforde; Anne, daughter to John Viscount Welles; Walter Nevell, esquire; Sir John Manners, knight; the wife of Sir David Cradocke, knight; the mother to the Lord Spencer’s wife; Sir Bartlemew Rodlegate; John, son to Sir John Wingfield; Sir Walter Mewes; Robert Newenton, esquire; Philip Spencer, son to Sir Hugh Spencer; Dame Isabell, daughter to Sir Hugh; the Lord Barons slain at Barnet field, buried there 1471.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Ghastly looks Are at my service, like enforced smiles; And both are ready in their offices At any time to grace my stratagems.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

It's through living a straight life, 'e says.
— from With Our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War by William E. Sellers

At all events, aside from the rival cheering sections the stands showed long empty stretches, and Cardin, who shared an end of the bench with Dick, resented it.
— from Quarter-Back Bates by Ralph Henry Barbour

umfangreich bulky Spesenbewilligung expense allowance Spezialarbeiter, Spezialkraftto lay off specialized worker Spezialausbildung specialized education Spezialist, Fachkraft specialist Spezialisten, Fachkräfte specialists Spitzengespräche top-level talks Spitzenlohn top wage Spitzenverband der britischen Gewerkschaften Trades Union Congress Späteinsteiger late entrants springen, Sprung, plötzlicher Anstieg jump Springer spare man Springer stand-by man Staat als Unternehmer public enterprise staatenlos stateless Staatenloser stateless person staatliche Schule (US) public school staatliche und andere öffentliche Unternehmen public sector staatlicher Gesundheitsdienst (Br.)
— from Mr. Honey's Work Study Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Elizabeth, scarcely less enthusiastic, said: "I've a lot of old things I'll give her to cut up for carpet rags."
— from Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" by Edith May Bertels Thomas