3. Timêbant ut satis reî frûmentâriae mittî posset.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

" War indeed was formally declared April 25th, and in the brief space of one hundred and fourteen days history had added to its annals: the blockading of Cuban ports whereby the Spanish fleet was trapped; the invasion and siege of the island by United States regulars, volunteers, and rough riders; the {339} destruction of the Pacific Spanish fleet in Manila Bay by Admiral Dewey; and, finally, the destruction of the remainder of the Spanish fleet under command of Admiral Cervera, Sunday morning, July 3d.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

In his own crowd Amory saw men kept out for wearing green hats, for being “a damn tailor's dummy,” for having “too much pull in heaven,” for getting drunk one night “not like a gentleman, by God,” or for unfathomable secret reasons known to no one but the wielders of the black balls.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Utopia was a country imagined by Thomas Moore, wherein existed universal suffrage, religious toleration, almost complete abolition of the death penalty, and so on.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

2 The flashing and golden pageant of California, The sudden and gorgeous drama, the sunny and ample lands, The long and varied stretch from Puget sound to Colorado south, Lands bathed in sweeter, rarer, healthier air, valleys and mountain cliffs, The fields of Nature long prepared and fallow, the silent, cyclic chemistry, The slow and steady ages plodding, the unoccupied surface ripening, the rich ores forming beneath; At last the New arriving, assuming, taking possession, A swarming and busy race settling and organizing everywhere, Ships coming in from the whole round world, and going out to the whole world, To India and China and Australia and the thousand island paradises of the Pacific, Populous cities, the latest inventions, the steamers on the rivers, the railroads, with many a thrifty farm, with machinery, And wool and wheat and the grape, and diggings of yellow gold.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Mr Brass found himself so exceedingly affected, at this point, that he could say or do nothing more until some refreshment arrived.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Hester's strong, calm, steadfastly enduring spirit almost sank, at last, on beholding this dark and grim countenance of an inevitable doom, which—at the moment when a passage seemed to open for the minister and herself out of their labyrinth of misery—showed itself, with an unrelenting smile, right in the midst of their path.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mrs. Turner come to me this night again to condole her condition and the ill usage she receives from my Lord Bruncker, which I could never have expected from him, and shall be a good caution to me while I live.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"Don't cut up so rough, Zeke, please don't," she went on.
— from Told in a French Garden August, 1914 by Mildred Aldrich

Between the chainbearer and Mrs. Stratton, with an occasional offering from the brother, the means of clothing, nourishing and educating the young woman had been found until she reached her eighteenth year, when the death of her female protector threw her nearly altogether on the care of her uncle.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

Leaving them to their own devices, she lifted upward at barely subsonic speed until she reached fifty thousand feet, then she poured on the coal.
— from An Encounter in Atlanta by Ed Howdershelt

For its use see Right Diet for Children , by Edgar J. Saxon, 1s.
— from The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine by Various

In the United States respect is still accorded to those who have new truths to teach for the benefit of the race.
— from Race Improvement; or, Eugenics: A Little Book on a Great Subject by La Reine Helen McKenzie Baker

My son is too honourable to contract a secret marriage; and although his present unhappy state renders it impossible for me to receive the assurance from his own lips, my confidence in his high principles justifies me in contradicting any such report as that which forms the subject of your letter.
— from John Marchmont's Legacy, Volumes 1-3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Mr. Copperhead would make it all right for him, and after that he would undertake such risks no more.
— from Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

This skiff having been made fast to the stern of the boat, they pushed off, and in utter silence rowed down the creek till they reached the tidal stream of the Blackwater, where they turned their bow seawards.
— from The Brethren by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard