Stagna avidi texere soli laxaeque paludes Depositum, Fortuna, tuum: mox vincula ferri Exedere senem longusque in carcere paedor.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

That is truth, said Sir Tristram, Sir Launcelot is called peerless of courtesy and of knighthood; and for his sake, said Sir Tristram, I will not with my good will fight no more with you, for the great love I have to Sir Launcelot du Lake.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Cossethay and her childhood with her father; the Marsh and the little Church school near the Marsh, and her grandmother and her uncles; the High School at Nottingham and Anton Skrebensky; Anton Skrebensky and the dance in the moonlight between the fires; then the time she could not think of without being blasted, Winifred Inger, and the months before becoming a school-teacher; then the horrors of Brinsley Street, lapsing into comparative peacefulness, Maggie, and Maggie's brother, whose influence she could still feel in her veins, when she conjured him up; then college, and Dorothy Russell, who was now in France, then the next move into the world again!
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

She lives in Castle Perilous: a river Runs in three loops about her living-place;
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Without corrupting the State legislatures, it cannot prosecute the attempt, because the periodical change of members would otherwise regenerate the whole body.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

And she gave herself to all that she loved in Cossethay, passionately, because she was going away now.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

'Cuoprono le loro parti vergogno se cosi di dietro come dinanzi, con certi sciugatoi molto galanti, che sono come gran fazzuoli che si legano il capo per viaggio, di diuersi colori, e orlati di varie foggie, e di colori similmente diuersi, con i suoi fiocchi, che nel cingersegli, viene l'un capo dauanti e l'altro di dietro.'
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

'I come, sweet love; I come, Philomèle!'
— from A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hay, Marie, Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie)

"I suppose little Indian children picked dandelions in the spring-time before Columbus discovered America."
— from The Rainbow Bridge by Frances Margaret Fox

See larger image Cloud Patterns.
— from Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

It is so ‘worthy’ of my collection, that every other specimen looks in comparison poor and tawdry.
— from An Unknown Lover by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

137]: (26–33) preface to Ernest grand duke of Austria, dated 7 Oct. 1587: (33–36) poems on the work: 1–209, the Classis secunda: (1–24) indexes: (26) a title:— Nicolai Re u sneri Leorini | IC. Comitis Palat.
— from The Early Oxford Press A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations by Falconer Madan