Hunc, cum responsum petitur, navigio aurato gestant Sacerdotes, multis argenteis pateris ab utroque navigii latere pendentibus.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

I felt quite certain that in the splendid uniform I was now wearing nobody would recognize the miserable-looking abbe who, but for Friar Stephano, would have become—God knows what! H2 anchor CHAPTER XIV An Amusing Meeting in Orsera—Journey to Corfu—My Stay in Constantinople—Bonneval—My Return to Corfu—Madame F.—The False Prince—I Run Away from Corfu—My Frolics at Casopo—I Surrender Myself a Prisoner—My Speedy Release and Triumph— My Success with Madame F. IMG I affirm that a stupid servant is more dangerous than a bad one, and a much greater plague, for one can be on one’s guard against a wicked person, but never against a fool.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

His features were strongly marked and peculiar, perhaps Mongolian in type; they were not German, English, or Italian.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

these rapids are much worse than they were fall when we passed them, at that time there were only three difficult points within seven miles, at present the whole distance is extreemly difficult of ascent, and it would be impracticable to decend except by leting down the empty vessels by a cord and then even the wrisk would be greater than in taking them up by the same means.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

“For a wolf, no,” said Tabaqui, “but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

The same motives always produce the same actions.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Emma, who in her heart believed in everything, was trembling with longing and anxiety, and she made a place beside her for the old woman.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

1135 ... they broke a path , i.e. they broke through the obstacles, and so made a path .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

She saw me, and peered forward, holding the candle above her head.
— from The Love Story of Abner Stone by Edwin Carlile Litsey

The lake nearly fills the space between the bluffs in which it is embedded, but there are several pieces of arable bottom-land in places where the bluffs recede, furnishing the sites of a corresponding number of settlements, mostly at points where creeks or brooks fall in between gaps in the hills.
— from The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 1 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7. by Zebulon Montgomery Pike

This apartment, furnished “in the oriental style,” made a pretty show among the photographs in the illustrated brochure of the hotel, and, though draughty, it was of all the public rooms the favourite.
— from The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

Lines which I had heard from Tom's lips and scoffed at, were now fused with subtle meaning and passion.
— from Dead Man's Rock by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Thinking the strange puss was very forward, he gave her a kick, but encountered no solid matter and puss continued her walk, disappearing from his sight a moment later.
— from Human Animals by Frank Hamel

Of the older States, Maryland and Pennsylvania, interested in opening up the western parts of their respective domains in this manner, joined themselves to the Western States and made possible the passage of the bill.
— from The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830 by Edwin Erle Sparks

“Follow; God shall make all plain and good.”
— from Uther and Igraine by Warwick Deeping

The Stoics define all these different feelings; and all those words which I have mentioned belong to different things, and do not, as they seem, express the same ideas; but they are to a certain extent distinct, as I shall make appear perhaps in another place.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Having a piece of embroidered Babylonian tapestry left him, he sold it; because none of his farm-houses were so much as plastered.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls by Plutarch