Viene una vez en cuatro años.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

[4872] When Peter Aretine's Lucretia came first to Rome, and that the fame of her beauty, ad urbanarum deliciarum sectatores venerat, nemo non ad videndam eam , &c. was spread abroad, they came in (as they say) thick and threefold to see her, and hovered about her gates, as they did of old to Lais of Corinth, and Phryne of Thebes,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Ita sibi visum et compertum quum prius an essent ambigeret Fidem suam liberet.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[353] FRICASSÉE OF VEAL IN VITULINAM ELIXAM CRUSH PEPPER, LOVAGE, CARRAWAY, CELERY SEED, MOISTEN WITH HONEY, VINEGAR, BROTH AND OIL; HEAT, BIND WITH ROUX AND COVER THE MEAT.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Any other man would have felt that things were getting hot for him; he would struggle, he would cry out—the kettle sings before the fire; he would not be Jean Valjean, et cetera .
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

"And in very embarrassed circumstances."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

vel eorum cerna ejus in secula seculorum nisi resque-
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

<voce e che parlavi mo lombardo, dicendo "Istra ten va, piu` non t'adizzo", perch'io sia giunto forse alquanto tardo, non t'incresca restare a parlar meco; vedi che non incresce a me, e ardo!
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

But I did not think of that: a confusion of countless thoughts and varied emotions crowded upon me while I gazed abstractedly on the lovely face of nature.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

1338-40; Teixeira, Relacion de Persia , p. 121; Milburne's Or. Commerce , I. 139; Garcia , f. 21 v.; Eng. Cyc. , art. Zinc .)
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

But the emperor's will could not be resisted; and, although the orthodox shuddered to acknowledge as a brother beloved and equal one whom they had always branded as a heretic, the secularized, imperial Church must commit treason or obey; for the royal oecumenical council had borne, along with other fruit, this, that a difference of religious faith and action might very easily constitute the crime of treason against the emperor.
— from Arius the Libyan: A Romance of the Primitive Church by Nathan C. (Nathan Chapman) Kouns

[486] Ea fides vivificabit et consolabitur vos, quia Magni Regis estis legati.—(L. Epp. iv.
— from History of the Great Reformation, Volume 4 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

There is droll irony, when Charlotte Brontë’s strong conservative sentiments and church environment are considered, in the following:— ‘We do not hesitate to say that the tone of mind and thought which has overthrown authority, and violated every code, human and divine, abroad, and fostered chartism and rebellion at home, is the same which has also written Jane Eyre .’
— from Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter

The various English companies, chartered by royal command with all-inclusive powers, despite the frequent opposition of Parliament, held the trade and land of the greater part of the colonies as a rigid monopoly.
— from History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus Myers

Looking out through the open end of the concert hall, and facing the organ, I see a grand marone velvet eastern canopy and dais, under which the Pasha of Egypt is to sit a few months hereafter and receive his tribes; and on this dais are the nobles and gentlemen gathering, in the fine rich theatrical suits which give a coloring to a festival, and of which we have not half enough.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

First, the following persons to be placed under arrest:—All members of the Sinn Fein National Council, the Central Executive Irish Sinn Fein Volunteers, General Council Irish Sinn Fein Volunteers, County Board Irish Sinn Fein Volunteers, Executive Committee National Volunteers, Coisde Gnota Committee Gaelic League.
— from Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics by Redmond-Howard, L. G., (Louis George)

The heavy veneered Empire curved posts are noticeable, and an extra old-fashioned appearance is given to it by the movable candle-brackets fastened to either side.
— from The Old Furniture Book, with a Sketch of Past Days and Ways by N. Hudson Moore

The volume is a thin imperial octavo, and is adorned with 299 some six or eight very excellent chromo-lithographs.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various