[4917] and make a pleasant valley lacteum sinum , between two chalky hills, Sororiantes papillulas, et ad pruritum frigidos amatores solo aspectu excitantes.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

La costa que tocamos es la más fértil de Nicaragua, [63] y en ella se produce en abundancia el café y otros dos productos
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

And the Apostle St. Paul expresly affirms, That Thieves shall not inherit the Kingdom of God , 1 Cor.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

For, if we should suppose the creation, or fall of the angels, was at the beginning of the Julian period, we should speak properly enough, and should be understood if we said, it is a longer time since the creation of angels than the creation of the world, by 7640 years: whereby we would mark out so much of that undistinguished duration as we suppose equal to, and would have admitted, 7640 annual revolutions of the sun, moving at the rate it now does.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Otherwise, a man is the slave of what other people are pleased to think,—and how little it requires to disconcert or soothe the mind that is greedy of praise: Sic leve, sic parvum est, animum quod laudis avarum Subruit ac reficit .[1]
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

And I was placed there, by whom I don’t know: I was in no condition to note particulars; I was only aware that they had hoisted me up to the height of Mr. Brocklehurst’s nose, that he was within a yard of me, and that a spread of shot orange and purple silk pelisses and a cloud of silvery plumage extended and waved below me.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

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— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

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— from Light Science for Leisure Hours A series of familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c. by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor

Those who wish nowadays to seem particularly enlightened and tolerant as regards this dangerous movement, describe it as a "pathological phenomenon."
— from Anarchism: A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory by E. V. (Ernst Viktor) Zenker

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— from Jim Mortimer by R. S. Warren (Robert Stanley Warren) Bell

Good, nourishing food was provided for the convalescents, who had plenty of beef-tea, soup, pilaf, eggs, and bread; and possessing as they did an extraordinary recuperative faculty and constitutions unimpaired by intemperance, a very fair percentage recovered.
— from Under the Red Crescent Adventures of an English Surgeon with the Turkish Army at Plevna and Erzeroum 1877-1878 by John Sandes