florere voluerunt—eius modi fuerunt, ut non reconciliatione concordiae, sed internecione civium diiudicatae sint.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Some people we see under no remarkable circumstances, but whom, for some reason or other, we never forget.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

She shouted, she wailed; but whether her voice remained unheard or unheeded, no reply came to her frenzied cries.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

After they grew to rest upon number, rather competent than vast, they grew to advantages of place, cunning diversions, and the like, and they grew more skilful in the ordering of their battles.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Thus Metis, the wife of Jupiter, plainly signifies counsel; Typhon, swelling; Pan, universality; Nemesis, revenge, &c.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

He waited until quarter-past eleven, when Mr. Douglas upon his usual nightly round came into the room.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

No lobsters are unreasonable; No reasonable creatures expect impossibilities.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

But let us not rashly conclude that all other phenomena can be thus explained.
— from Moral Principles and Medical Practice: The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence by Charles Coppens

These are: ‘That although no uniform numerical relation can be detected between the relative number of sun-spots and the actual amount of rainfall, yet that the minimum period in the cycle of sun-spots is a period of regularly recurring and strongly marked drought in Southern India‒That apart from any solar theory, an examination of the rain registers shews that a period of deficient rainfall recurs in cycles of eleven years at Madras ... that the statistical evidence shews that the cycle of rainfall at Madras has a marked coincidence with a corresponding cycle of sun-spots ... and that the evidence tends also to shew that the average rainfall of the years of minimum rainfall in the said cycle approaches perilously near to the point of deficiency which causes famine.’
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 735, January 26, 1878 by Various

Let us not rest content till we can say with Paul, "I know whom I have believed."
— from Gleanings among the Sheaves by C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

For there is a certain natural solidarity in things as they are, only being under no rational control, it operates as a wild natural force, as a kind of fate destroying all rational freedom and all rational responsibility in economic affairs.
— from Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

Similarly all the ministers, diplomatists, and all kinds of officials, who dress themselves up in their uniforms, with all kinds of ribbons and little crosses, and with preoccupation write on fine paper their obscure, twisted, useless numbered reports, communications, prescriptions, projects, are absolutely convinced that without this their activity the whole life of the nations will come to a standstill or will be entirely destroyed.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You / Christianity and Patriotism / Miscellanies by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

President Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta MUSEVENI (since 29 January 1986); Vice President Samson Babi Mululu KISEKKA (since NA January 1991) head of government: Prime Minister George Cosmas ADYEBO (since NA January 1991) cabinet: Cabinet; appointed by the president Legislative branch: unicameral National Resistance Council: elections last held 11-28 February 1989 (next to be held by January 1995); results - NRM was the only party; seats - (278 total, 210 indirectly elected) 210 members elected without party affiliation Judicial branch: Court of Appeal, High Court Political parties and leaders: only party - National Resistance Movement (NRM), Yoweri MUSEVENI note: Ugandan People's Congress (UPC), Milton OBOTE; Democratic Party (DP), Paul SSEMOGEERE; and Conservative Party (CP), Joshua S. MAYANJA-NKANGI continue to exist but are all proscribed from conducting public political activities Other political or pressure groups:
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

With the natives in the interior they were continually engaged in war or, to speak more correctly, in hunting them like wild beasts; they baited them with dogs, and carried what they captured to the slave market; but they undertook no real conquest.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

And again he saith also [Pg 143] unto the unbelieving Nations, “Receive Christ, receive Light, receive Sight, to the End thou mayest rightly know both God and Man.
— from An Apology for the True Christian Divinity Being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers by Robert Barclay

Perhaps they are from Boston, whence come all the wonderfully painted peddlers' wagons drawn by six stalwart horses, which the driver, using no rein, controls with his long whip and cheery voice.
— from Being a Boy by Charles Dudley Warner