The commonest things are generally the most perplexing, and surely love is common enough, seeing it is the thing upon which the welfare, the pleasure, nay, the continuity, of the human race depends.
— from The Island of Fantasy: A Romance by Fergus Hume

Duas debes facere præparationes, si libeat, in chartis etiam separatis.
— from Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc. In English and Latin: Containing a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture by Andrea Pozzo

For the next many days she let it color everything she saw, every word she overheard; the connecting links she forged from her own active imagination.
— from Laughing Last by Jane Abbott

I mean that class of reasoners who can see little in christianity even supposing it to be true.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell

“The one I allude to,” said Lucifer, “is called Ease ; she is one whose merits I have too long disregarded, and whose merit, Satan, you yourself disregarded of yore, when in tempting Job you turned the unpleasant side of life towards him.
— from The Sleeping Bard; Or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell by Ellis Wynne

Io O Flacco, avevo creduto (imperocche si siamo sovente lavati insiême) che esso sollecito avesse cura delle sua voce; lotta in mezzo
— from Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction by John Davenport

"H'm! seems like I could even smell the batter cakes frying right now, fellows," he told them, with a smack of his lips.
— from Afloat; or, Adventures on Watery Trails by Douglas, Alan, Captain