Ea fortuna pugnae fuit, ut nihil relictum sit, quo, si adfuisset Dictator , res melius geri potuerit; non dux militi, non miles duci defuit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Dandum et aliquod intervallum animo: ita tamen ut non resolvatur, sed remittatur.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Capital could not only be accumulated in Africa, but attracted from the white world, with one great difference from present usage: no return so fabulous would be offered that civilized lands would be tempted to divert to colonial trade and invest materials and labor needed by the masses at home, but rather would receive the same modest profits as legitimate home industry offers.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

When daylight made the candles on the table turn pale the son slowly left his armchair, and without looking again at the mother upon whom he had passed sentence, severing the tie that united her to son and daughter, he said slowly: “Let us now retire, sister.” H2 anchor A HUMBLE DRAMA Meetings that are unexpected constitute the charm of traveling.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

proved true; for the old lady, on hearing it, did not survive the news a whole month, and as her fortune consisted in an annuity, out of which she had laid up no reserves, she left nothing worth mentioning to her so fatally envied darling, but absolutely refused to see his father before she died.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

The people, under no restraint, soon grew dissolute, luxurious, and idle.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Let us now review some good hunting grounds for information, and how to use them.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Un no rompido sueno— Un dia puro—allegre—libre Quiera— Libre de amor—de zelo— De odio—de esperanza—de rezelo.—- Luis Ponce de Leon .
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

I was a rusty looking city editor, I am free to confess—coatless, slouch hat, blue woolen shirt, pantaloons stuffed into boot-tops, whiskered half down to the waist, and the universal navy revolver slung to my belt.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

—Según ese ejemplo, veo que los efectos del crédito a largos plazos que dan al exportador europeo una gran ventaja sobre nosotros, los de los Estados Unidos, no recaen sobre el exportador sino sobre el banco.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

"Until now," returns she, looking at him with eyes full of the most intense affection; "now all is different."
— from Airy Fairy Lilian by Duchess

Pausing to rest his weary muscles, the young Canadian allowed the pay-dirt to drift off the rocker until nothing remained save that which was in the pocket.
— from Riddle of the Storm A Mystery Story for Boys by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

A gentleman who had the misfortune to reside in a town which bore one of these unmelodious names recently said to us: “I am actually ashamed to register myself when traveling, as from ‘Goose Creek,’ and for years I have had my mail sent to a town three miles away rather than endure the sight of that odious name on my letters.”
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, April 1885 by Chautauqua Institution

As an evidence of this I would instance the fact that this nation, which less than one hundred years ago was unknown, now ranks second to none in civilisation and in importance.
— from A Fantasy of Far Japan; Or, Summer Dream Dialogues by Kencho Suematsu

Seacombe possesses no harbour, and therefore Seacombe men can use no really seaworthy craft.
— from A Poor Man's House by Stephen Sydney Reynolds

Let us not rest satisfied with the greatest attainments short of "perfecting holiness in the fear of God."—Mason.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Partly from loyalty, partly from curiosity, the clans of Wayne and Briggs, with their offshoots and social adherents, attended; and they saw Briggs and Wayne on their best behavior, attended by Sudbury Grey and Winsted Forest; and they saw two bridal visions of loveliness, attended by six additional sister visions as bridesmaids; and they saw the poet, agitated with the holy emotions of a father, now almost unmanned, now rallying, spraying 42 png 064 the hushed air with sweetness.
— from Iole by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

But his capacious and acute understanding was gradually unfolding new resources, supplying the defects, and overcoming the disadvantages of his imperfect education and desultory and irregular studies, while his matured and enlightened judgment had abandoned and discarded the fanatical pravities and erroneous tenets, which his ardent enthusiasm had too hastily imbibed.
— from Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster by Potts, Thomas, active 1612-1618

Forced to recognize that the primitive inhabitants of China and America derived their first principles of organization from the identical light-giving source, a fact which also indicates a community of race and of place of origin, let us now review some data which prove that the two civilizations must have been separated and isolated from each other at an extremely remote period of time.
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall

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— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency