SECOND DRINKING SONG Let us drink, dear friends, let us drink; Time that flies beckons us to it!
— from The Middle-Class Gentleman by Molière

OSTREA UT DIU DURENT FUMIGATE
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Myself unknown, destitute, driven from Europe and Asia, I wander over the Libyan wilderness.'
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

I have consulted the opinion of the sensible persons here and all of them unanimously disapprove Don Filipo’s plan.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

The minds of the faithful were either seduced, or scandalized, or alarmed; and the pagans, who sometimes presumed to engage in the unequal dispute, derived, from the popular work of their Imperial missionary, an inexhaustible supply of fallacious objections.
— 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

A field, not distorting space, but accentuating certain characteristics of a matter field in space-time, subtly shifting relationships.... Just as the mind could compare unrelated data, draw from them new concepts, new parallels....
— from End as a Hero by Keith Laumer

But look to yourselves, for here will be damnation upon damnation, damned for thy own sins, and damned for thy being a partaker with others in their sins; and damned for being guilty of the damnation of others.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

He wondered rather how Manon Lescaut had come into this bookshelf, and he opened it at an aquatint of ladies deject and lightly clothed— c'est une douzaine de filles de joie , said the inscription beneath.
— from Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie

Then, Brant turned the body over, and gazed curiously, with strong repulsion, into the ugly, distorted dead face.
— from Heart of the Blue Ridge by Waldron Baily

VI Throughout Nature, the parental instinct is seen as a unique development, detached from and high above all other developments.
— from Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy

"Here, stop that, Davey!" urged Dick, darting forward.
— from The Grammar School Boys of Gridley; or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

An instrument of the same character made of wood is now, it seems, taking a place in the French orchestras, and we herewith give an illustration of the latest form of the so-called ‘Xylophone’ as used in Paris, with the names of the notes marked in the French manner, wherein the ancient ‘Ut’ does duty for the modern ‘Do.’
— from The Boy's Own Book of Indoor Games and Recreations A Popular Encyclopædia for Boys by Gordon Stables