PEINE PERDUE Dans un temps de sécheresse, un curé des environs de Choisy, près Paris, est invité par ses paroissiens à faire une neuvaine pour obtenir de la pluie, ainsi qu'avaient fait tous ses confrères circonvoisins.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

6. Eius modî perîcula erant ut nêmô proficîscî vellet.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

exterus, -a, -um , outward ( exterior, -ius , outer ) extrêmus, -a, -um ( extimus, -a, -um ) outermost, last înferus, -a, -um , low înferior, -ius , lower înfimus, -a, -um îmus, -a, -um lowest posterus, -a, -um , next ( posterior, -ius , later ) postrêmus, -a, -um ( postumus, -a, -um ) last superus, -a, -um , above superior, -ius , higher suprêmus, -a, -um summus, -a, -um highest 313.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Then the good Pantagruel, thinking he had fainted, commanded them to provide him some vinegar; but Panurge knew well that there was some good prey in hands, and forthwith showed unto noble Pantagruel how he was bearing upon his back a fair roebuck, and all his girdle bordered with hares.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Unyà na pagminyug may búhat ka na, Don’t get married until you have a job.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He cannot create an unlimited Universe, nor perform an infinite act.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

L ONDON: T. F ISHER U NWIN, P ATERNOSTER S QUARE , E.C.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

But, as they had then no care for my honour, I am under no present concern to be careful of theirs; and if I am herein mortar
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

“Why, yes, yes, dinner, you know—just pot luck with us, with your old superintendent, you rascal,” he uttered nervously, poking Martin in an attempt at jocular fellowship.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Let us now pause and ask ourselves whether, in the course of these papers, the proposed Constitution has not been satisfactorily vindicated from the aspersions thrown upon it; and whether it has not been shown to be worthy of the public approbation, and necessary to the public safety and prosperity.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Meanwhile a carriage had appeared, was hailed by Glumford, stopped; and on being informed of the circumstance and the rank of the sufferer, the traveller, a single gentleman, descended, assisted to raise the unhappy nobleman, placed him in the carriage, and, obeying Glumford’s instructions, proceeded slowly to Westborough Park.
— from The Disowned — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

That there can be in this universe no perfectly happy place while there is a perfectly miserable place—that no infinite being can be good who knowingly and, as one may say, willfully created myriads of human beings, knowing that they would be eternally miserable.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 08 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Interviews by Robert Green Ingersoll

One of the chief indictments of the German government, under William II, is that it uttered no protest while the Armenian men in the vigor of life were taken from the villages by the hundred and shot, or killed in more brutal ways, and the old men, women, and children obliged to march off to a distant desert part of Asia Minor, or to the malarial swamps of the Euphrates.
— from Winning a Cause: World War Stories by John G. (John Gilbert) Thompson

A sect of heretics of the fifth century under Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople.
— from Phrases and Names, Their Origins and Meanings by Trench H. Johnson

Where the temperament is two-thirds happy, or two-thirds unhappy, no political or religious beliefs can change the proportions.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

"I guess we'd better get the chairs up now," proposed Mrs. Olney, who with Mrs. Henderson was superintending things.
— from Bob the Castaway; Or, The Wreck of the Eagle by Frank V. Webster

Annie trudged bravely on, her head aching; for, of course, as a gipsy girl, she could use no parasol to shade her from the sun.
— from A World of Girls: The Story of a School by L. T. Meade

Now the Afghans began to look a little uncomfortable, but Moti seemed so determined to keep the horse that they resolved to appeal to the law, so they went off and laid a complaint before the king that Moti had stolen one of their horses and would not give it up nor pay for it.
— from The Lilac Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

My District's worked by some man at Darjiling, on the strength of u native pleader's false reports.
— from The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition by Rudyard Kipling

Let us now pass into the interior of a lighthouse, and take notice of its general arrangements.
— from Lighthouses and Lightships A Descriptive and Historical Account of Their Mode of Construction and Organization by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams