It was only by fragments, and at intervals which left Dolly time to revolve what she had heard till it acquired some familiarity for her, that Silas at last arrived at the climax of the sad story—the drawing of lots, and its false testimony concerning him; and this had to be repeated in several interviews, under new questions on her part as to the nature of this plan for detecting the guilty and clearing the innocent.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Mole stood a moment rigid, while his uplifted nose, quivering slightly, felt the air.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

In conclusion he said: 'Or, comment voulez-vous que quiconque puisse inventer quelque chose de nouveau, moi Spontini declarant ne pouvoir en aucune facon surpasser mes oeuvres precedentes, d'autre part etant avise que depuis la Vestale il n'a point ete ecrit une note qui ne fut volee de mes partitions.'
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Id arbitror / Adprime in vitâ esse utile, ne quid nimis —This I consider to be a valuable principle in life, not to do anything in excess.
— 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.

M. Nec, quæ præteriit, iterum revocabitur unda; / Nec, quæ præteriit, hora redire potest —
— 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.

Ut nummi, quos hic quincunce modesto Nutrieras, pergant avidos sudare deunces?
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

(N. de la R.: Z39.50 es una norma que define un protocolo para la búsqueda documentaria de un ordenador a un otro.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

nēmō quisquam and nihil quicquam are old and late: as, lepidiōrem uxōrem nēmō quisquam habet , Pl.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

To judge of them by utility and by the naked truth, the lessons of simplicity are not much inferior to those which learning teaches us: nay, quite the contrary.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Have we lived to see the day when—“’ “Let us not question the motives of the Philistine,” interrupted Abel-Phittim’ “for to-day we profit for the first time by his avarice or by his generosity; but rather let us hurry to the ramparts, lest offerings should be wanting for that altar whose fire the rains of heaven can not extinguish, and whose pillars of smoke no tempest can turn aside.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Sed ex quo tu ex Gallia has Plinii epistolas in Italia reportasti, in membrana scriptas, atque adeo diuersis a nostris characteribus, ut nisi quis diu assuerit, non queat legere, coepi sperare mirum in modum, fore aetate nostra, ut plurimi ex bonis autoribus, quos non extare credimus, inueniantur.”
— from A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by Edward Kennard Rand

On shore, they urged, no question could arise, especially as many English have now, although the two nations are at peace, openly taken service under the Prince of Orange.
— from By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Mr. Piper, giving utterance to uncouth noises, quitted the room hastily, but Mr. Cox sat still and stared at her dumbly.
— from Light Freights by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

Understand?" "Not quite," he admitted.
— from Mixed Faces by Roy Norton

Quia sententiam tulerat Gracchus, ut ne quis in civem Romanum capitalem sententiam diceret.
— from A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge

It often anticipated his drafts upon it for moral support in acts that might at first blush seem criminal, or for soothing apologies for acts which were undeniably "not QUITE right."
— from The Cost by David Graham Phillips

Let us not question the method he uses, but trust him.
— from Trials and Triumphs of Faith by Mary Cole

He used no quichua, but spoke the secret tongue of the nobles.
— from The Mystery Boys and the Inca Gold by Van Powell