He was suspected of selling his vote in Congress, and probably he did; the disgrace killed him, he was an outcast, sir, loathed by himself and by his constituents.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

| V | Id cum animadvertisset Publius Crassus adulescens, qui equitatui praeerat, quod expeditior erat quam hi qui inter aciem versabantur, tertiam aciem laborantibus nostris subsidio misit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

V [ Id cum animadvertisset Publius Crassus adulescens ,] [ qui equitatui praeerat, ]
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

V. Id cum animadvertisset Publius Crassus adulescens, qui equitatui praeerat, quod expeditior erat quam hi qui inter aciem versabantur, tertiam aciem laborantibus nostris subsidio misit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Bibulus, collega Caesaris , cum actiones eius magis vellet impedire quam posset, maiore parte anni domi se tenuit: quo facto dum augere vult invidiam collegae, auxit potentiam.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

A restriction, usually an ironical afterthought, may be introduced by nisi forte (rare before Cicero) or nisi vērō (in Cicero and Pliny the Younger) with the indicative.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

There are others thoroughly brave, courteous, frank, and jovial, who, although poor, find means to please by graceful speech, frequenting courts, and making themselves agreeable there; these, well versed in courtesy and politeness, appear in noble attire, and figure conspicuously at the tournaments and military games, proving themselves good judges and good company."
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Half the expressions current in conversation, have merely a nominal value; they represent no ideas, and they pass merely by common courtesy: but the language of every person of sense has sterling value; it cheats and puzzles nobody; and even when it is addressed to children, it is made intelligible.
— from Practical Education, Volume I by Richard Lovell Edgeworth

But although they thus continue to live for an indefinite time, their vigour is conspicuously and permanently impaired; while in the fresh water irritability persists for a short time after spontaneity has ceased, and the tentacles and manubrium are strongly retracted.
— from Jelly-Fish, Star-Fish, and Sea-Urchins: Being a Research on Primitive Nervous Systems by George John Romanes

He was suspected of selling his vote in Congress, and probably he did; the disgrace killed' him, he was an outcast, sir, loathed by himself and by his constituents.
— from The Gilded Age, Part 7. by Charles Dudley Warner

He is sure that he sees by foresight all the things which, as they pass us, leave so little time for insight; and of which the only true view is calm and pleasant retrospect.
— from Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

And so soon as the good nuns knew that, besides my good voice, I could also play a little on the lute and the harpsichord, then did they give more heed to me, and because there was added to these qualities a prettily proportioned body and a handsome face enough, therefore they deemed all my manners and customs, my doings and my ways, to be the ways of nobility: and so became I all unexpectedly a much-loved gentleman, of whom one could but wonder that he should serve so scurvy a dragoon.
— from The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

[1196] H.S.E. MICHAEL JOHNSON, Vir impavidus, constans, animosus, periculorum immemor, laborum patientissimus; fiducia christiana fortis, fervidusque; paterfamilias apprime strenuus; bibliopola admodum peritus; mente et libris et negotiis exculta; animo ita firmo, ut, rebus adversis diu conflictatus, nec sibi nec suis defuerit; lingua sic temperata, ut ei nihil quod aures vel pias, vel castas laesisset, aut dolor, vel voluptas unquam expresserit.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell

Curiously enough, in our scant library on board the little trading vessel I came across portion of a narrative of a voyage in a South Seaman, written by her surgeon, a Mr Bennett, in 1838,{*} and our captain and myself were much interested in the accurate description he gave of Christmas Island and its huge rookeries of oceanic birds.
— from Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 by Louis Becke

It has the following Latin inscription: VII IM CAESAR AVGVSTVS PONTIFEX MAX VIAM.
— from A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817 With Notes Taken During a Tour Through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the Environs of Paris. Illustrated with Numerous Coloured Engravings, from Drawings Made on the Spot by W. D. (William Dorset) Fellowes

We found one of the old man’s sons engaged, during our one visit, in building an outhouse, after the primitive fashion of the Highlands, and during our other visit, in constructing a plough.
— from Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Hugh Miller

During a long visit at Holm Lacy in Herefordshire, he amused his leisure by copying from Vandyck, in crayons, a [Pg 215] head of Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, which was still preserved there many years afterwards, and is said to have possessed considerable merit.
— from Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner