Sen. Levis sit tibi terra —May the earth lie light on thee.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

If you like the epilogue look long on it: prosperous Prospero, the good man rewarded, Lizzie, grandpa’s lump of love, and nuncle Richie, the bad man taken off by poetic justice to the place where the bad niggers go.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

There is personal compliment to either Lord Leicester or Sir Philip Sidney.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

Paragua, the long narrow island seen at the extreme lower left of any map of the archipelago, extending northeast southwest at an angle of about 45°, is practically worthless, being fit for nothing much except a penal colony, for which purpose it is in fact now used.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

He is no more; may the earth lie light on his head!
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Reaumur subsequently owned that Bonnet's arguments had shaken his opinion [306] ; and some observations of his own, with respect to the respiration of the bot of the ox , go to prove that expiration and inspiration are not by the same spiracles; for he found that the air in this animal was expired by the eight little lower orifices before mentioned [307] , from which he clearly saw the air-bubbles issue—the upper one he conjectures receives the air
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 4 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

They will call you a cutthroat, pirate, sheep-stealer, and all the rest of their elegant little list of embellishments, all the same.
— from Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe

But the last week was nearly at an end, and, though everyone loudly lamented over this fact, it was observed that Mrs. Ross's countenance grew brighter every day.
— from Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

"Ain't seen nothin' that even looks like one," said the porter.
— from Excuse Me! by Rupert Hughes

For example; instead of mac Ioseiph an t-saoir, the son of Joseph the carpenter , many would more readily say, mac Ioseiph an saor; instead of thuit e le laimh Oscair an laoich chruadalaich, he fell by the hand of Oscar the bold hero , it would rather be said, thuit e le laimh Oscair an laoch cruadalach.
— from Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart

Between them they wrote the editorials, criticisms, the London and Paris special correspondence, solicited the advertisements, and frequently assisted in the wrapping and mailing of the copies sent to their extremely limited list of subscribers.
— from Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by Richard Harding Davis