As I looked at them this thought came into my mind: If one of those grains had been planted on the banks of the Nile the year after it grew, and all its lineal descendants had been planted and replanted from that time until now, its progeny would to-day be sufficiently numerous to feed the teeming millions of the world.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Perhaps some of these visitors think we should not have had it until now in Philadelphia, and as the great procession was going up Broad street
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

[18] In hoc genere et naturali et honesto duo vitia vitanda sunt, unum, ne incognita pro cognitis habeamus iisque temere assentiamur; quod vitium effugere qui volet (omnes autem velle debent), adhibebit ad considerandas res et tempus et diligentiam.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

" "Westgate Buildings must have been rather surprised by the appearance of a carriage drawn up near its pavement," observed Sir Walter.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

I am not very used to be thirsty, either well or sick; my mouth is, indeed, apt to be dry, but without thirst; and commonly I never drink but with thirst that is created by eating, and far on in the meal; I drink pretty well for a man of my pitch: in summer, and at a relishing meal, I do not only exceed the limits of Augustus, who drank but thrice precisely; but not to offend Democritus rule, who forbade that men should stop at four times as an unlucky number, I proceed at need to the fifth glass, about three half-pints; for the little glasses are my favourites, and I like to drink them off, which other people avoid as an unbecoming thing.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

“At least, they shall say of me,” thought this exemplary man, “that I leave no public duty unperformed, nor ill performed!”
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[41] Como dice José M. Estrada, «Martín Fierro es el tipo culminante del gaucho, es decir, el producto más completo de una sociabilidad injusta, operando sobre una naturaleza ingénitamente poderosa y activa.» — Noel de Lara ( Argentino ) Isaacs, Jorge (1837-1895) La «María» de Jorge Isaacs, [42] el poeta colombiano, es admirable, pero ¿qué es?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Cum fossa atque lorica quattuorque castris circumdatos fames premeret, a duce orantes proelium, ut tamquam viros occideret, ubi non impetrabant, placuit eruptio.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

To him that believeth all things are possible, but to them that are unbelieving nothing is pure, Titus i. 15.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

I did never see any man behave himself as he did Idea of freedom in commerce has dawned upon nations Idiotic principle of sumptuary legislation Idle, listless, dice-playing, begging, filching vagabonds If to do be as grand as to imagine what it were good to do Ignorance is the real enslaver of mankind
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Instead of this, the Lacedæmonians despatched a considerable reinforcement by land to join Brasidas; probably at his own request, and also instigated by hearing of the Athenian armament now under Nikias in Pallênê.
— from History of Greece, Volume 06 (of 12) by George Grote

Near the sleeper Madame Bonaparte and the other ladies beat in unison (not in perfect accord, however) on bronze vases, making, as you may imagine, a terrible kind of music.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 04 by Louis Constant Wairy

Unimportance , n. Insignificance, paltriness, emptiness, triviality, nothingness.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

Idem, cum tenui carptus defloruit ungui, Nulli illum pueri, nullæ cupiere puellæ.
— from Elements of Criticism, Volume III. by Kames, Henry Home, Lord

Rive is seldom used now in prose, though we have "riven" very often.
— from Pre-Raphaelite and other Poets by Lafcadio Hearn

Parkhurst was able to write to Bullinger, perhaps with some exaggeration, that it was again in general use: Nunc iterum per totam Angliam in usu passim est .
— from The Acts of Uniformity: Their Scope and Effect by T. A. (Thomas Alexander) Lacey

[vacant]; Patriotic Front or PF [Michael SATA]; Party of Unity for Democracy and Development or PUDD [Dan PULE]; Reform Party [Nevers MUMBA]; United Democratic Alliance or UDA (a coalition of RP, ZADECO, PUDD, and ZRP); United Liberal Party or ULP [Sakwiba SIKOTA]; United National Independence Party or UNIP
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency