"I wish," said he, "to be an admiral, and in the command of the English fleet: I should very soon either do much, or be ruined: my disposition cannot bear tame and slow measures.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

IV volô, -âre IRREGULAR VERB sum, esse dêleô, -êre doceô, -êre faveô, -êre habeô, -êre iubeô, -êre moneô, -êre moveô, -êre noceô, -êre pâreô, -êre persuâdeô, -êre sedeô, -êre studeô, -êre videô, -êre agô, -ere capiô, -ere crêdô, -ere dîcô, -ere dûcô, -ere faciô, -ere fugiô, -ere iaciô, -ere mittô, -ere rapiô, -ere regô, -ere resistô, -ere audiô, -îre mûniô, -îre reperiô, -îre
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Miss Anthony was very successful, each day gaining more courage.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

So verstehen sie es denn, und merken dass man Deutsch mit ihnen redet.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1 ‘Non a primo Deo factum esse mundum docuit, sed a virtute quadam valde separata et distante ab ea principalitate quæ est super universa, et ignorante eum qui est super omnia Deum’ ;
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

aedem Dīiovī vōvit, sī eō diē hostēs fūdisset , L. 31, 21, 12, he vowed a temple to infernal Jove, ‘if he should rout the enemy on that day.’
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

IV volō, -āre IRREGULAR VERB sum, esse dēleō, -ēre doceō, -ēre faveō, -ēre habeō, -ēre iubeō, -ēre moneō, -ēre moveō, -ēre noceō, -ēre pāreō, -ēre persuādeō, -ēre sedeō, -ēre studeō, -ēre videō, -ēre agō, -ere capiō, -ere crēdō, -ere dīcō, -ere dūcō, -ere faciō, -ere fugiō, -ere iaciō, -ere mittō, -ere rapiō, -ere regō, -ere resistō, -ere audiō, -īre mūniō, -īre reperiō, -īre veniō, -īre 511.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Con lui sen va chi da tal parte inganna: e questo basti de la prima valle sapere e di color che 'n se' assanna>>.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

It must show (for one way) how a parliamentary campaign, conducted honestly and boldly, might bring the state of public business in Parliament to such a position that repeal would be the only solution; for another way, how systematic passive opposition to, and contempt of, law might be carried out through a thousand details, so as to virtually supersede English dominion here and to make the mere repealing statute an immaterial formality (this, I may observe, is my way); and for a third way how, in the event of an European [Pg 54] war, a strong national party in Ireland could grasp the occasion to do the work instantly....
— from The Evolution of Sinn Fein by Robert Mitchell Henry

A vast sum, expended during nine years, was required to perfect its delicate and exacting mechanism.
— from Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery by George Iles

I had the curiosity to inquire in a particular manner, by what methods great numbers had procured to themselves high titles of honour, and prodigious estates; and I confined my inquiry to a very modern period: however, without grating upon present times, because I would be sure to give no offence even to foreigners (for I hope the reader need not be told, that I do not in the least intend my own country, in what I say upon this occasion,) a great number of persons concerned were called up; and, upon a very slight examination, discovered such a scene of infamy, that I cannot reflect upon it without some seriousness.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

If he lives to arrive at his eighth year, he will go near to die a violent death on his very birth-day; but if he should escape, as I see but small hopes, he will, in his twenty-third year, be under the very same evil direction: and if he should, which seems almost impossible, escape that also, the thirty-third or thirty-fourth year is, I fear’——I interrupted him here, “O, Mr Dryden, what is this you tell me?
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18 Dialogue concerning Women; Characters; Life of Lucian; Letters; Appendix; Index by John Dryden

V ST. ETIENNE DE FRÉJUS
— from The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield