Eques etiam, auctore L. Cominio tribuno militum, qui aliquotiens impetu capto perrumpere non poterat hostium agmen, 5 detraxit frenos equis atque ita concitatos calcaribus permisit , ut sustinere eos nulla vis posset; per arma, per viros late stragem dedere; secutus pedes impetum equitum turbatis hostibus intulit signa .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

She preferred it even to her memory of G.J.'s flat in the Albany.
— from The Pretty Lady by Arnold Bennett

If this was, really, the distinguishing characteristic of Bracciolini, we have then another very strong point in evidence that he forged the Annals, for the spirit of detraction stands forth in the boldest relief on every page of that production.
— from Tacitus and Bracciolini. The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by John Wilson Ross

The man of more science, and yet slower progress, is expected to handle the more difficult problems, and subject all their elements to a sharper scrutiny.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, April 1885 by Chautauqua Institution

Staltser pleaded in excuse, that he considered the process he had employed as harmless, and that Masskosky, physician to the town of Goppingen, who was accounted a man of knowledge, had employed the same for his wine.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

This is a pretty considerable Place in Dutch Brabant : ’Tis encompass’d all round with 260.png 257 Marshes, and may easily be laid under Water for several Leagues round, which makes it one of the strongest Places in Europe : ’Twas Henry of Brabant that gave it the Name of Bois le Duc , or Bolduc , i. e. the Duke’s Wood , because he directed the Building of it in 1171, in the same Place where he caus’d a Wood to be cut down.
— from The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume IV Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Pöllnitz, Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von

That already free competition and individual enterprise, had made such progress in enriching the Hollanders and the Javanese respectively with a superfluity of useful or agreeable things, brought from the farthest ends of the earth, seemed to the eyes of that day a condition of things likely to end in a general catastrophe.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley