When they think of someone being caught and sent to a secret prison, it's someone else -- someone brown, someone young, someone foreign.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Most of their mournings are artificial and ceremonious: “Uberibus semper lacrymis, semperque paratis, In statione subatque expectantibus illam, Quo jubeat manare modo.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

In Vienna, in St Petersburg, in Stockholm, in Copenhagen, in Paris, and New York—I have been discovered everywhere: I have not yet been discovered in Europe's flatland—Germany....
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Indicative Present SINGULAR PLURAL sum , I am sumus , we are es , thou art estis , you are est , he (she, it) is sunt , they are Imperfect er am , I was er âmus , we were er âs , thou wast er âtis , you were er at , he was er ant , they were Future er ô , I shall be er imus , we shall be er is , thou wilt be er itis , you will be er it , he will be er unt , they will be Perfect fu î , I have been, was fu imus , we have been, were fu istî , thou hast been, wast fu istis , you have been, were fu it , he has been, was fu êrunt , fuêre, they have been, were Pluperfect fu eram , I had been fu erâmus , we had been fu erâs , thou hadst been fu erâtis , you had been fu erat , he had been fu erant , they had been Future Perfect fu erô , I shall have been fu erimus , we shall have been fu eris , thou wilt have been fu eritis , you will have been fu erit , he will have been fu erint , they will have been Subjunctive Present Imperfect SINGULAR PLURAL SINGULAR PLURAL s im s îmus es sem es sêmus s îs s îtis es sês es sêtis s it s int es set es sent Perfect Pluperfect fu erim fu erimus fu issem fu issêmus fu eris fu eritis fu issês fu issêtis fu erit fu erint fu isset fu issent Imperative PRESENT FUTURE 2d Pers.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

So prominent is some of this floral diapering that one is inclined to think that in a few cases it may possibly be a diapering with floral badges.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Stem prôfut- Indicative Subjunctive SINGULAR PLURAL SINGULAR PLURAL Pres.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

—Ceremonies, official robes and court dresses, grave countenances, solemn aspects, the slow pace, involved speech—everything, in short, known as dignity—are all pretences adopted by those who are timid at heart: they wish to make themselves feared (themselves or the things they represent).
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Now the head and front of such precautions is silence; and not to allow either joy at the appearance of an unexpected hope, or fear, or familiarity, Things necessary.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Having arrived at home safely with these, I devoted every spare moment to their perusal, and soon made such proficiency in studies of this nature as I thought sufficient for the execution of my plan.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

[the last chapter is on second-sighted persons in Scotland], 273.
— from Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 1 of 2) by Rhys, John, Sir

Thus, a word like ple'w in Greek would be unpleasant to the Peruvian's ear, and he says pillui, 'I sail.'
— from Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly

All wor varry quiet for a long time an when th' mooin peept aght an sent a mild soft leet into that same porch, it showed a couple sittin varry cloise together.
— from Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect by John Hartley

You'll take a small profit, I suppose?
— from Quisanté by Anthony Hope

B. H. S. Productions, Inc. STARK FEAR.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

For in fact you—with sincere pain I say it— But served to Stephen as a sort of foil To set his talent off and heighten it.
— from The Epic of Saul by William Cleaver Wilkinson

Mr Sadler's piety, it seems, would be proof against one rainy summer, but would be overcome by three or four in succession.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

The members of the Committee were beginning to get a little bit bored by this time, and they did not pay much attention to the array of facts which the speaker presented in support of his contentions.
— from Barry Wynn; Or, The Adventures of a Page Boy in the United States Congress by George Barton

"Well," said poppa, "I suppose there's a good deal of intrinsic interest in this town—relics of Napoleon, the Bon Marché, and so on—and we've got to see it.
— from A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') by Sara Jeannette Duncan