[To ISABELLA] Give't not o'er so; to him again, entreat him, Kneel down before him, hang upon his gown; You are too cold: if you should need a pin, You could not with more tame a tongue desire it.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

sī numquam avārē pretium statuī artī meae, exemplum statuite in mē , T. Hau.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

2. 6. 26. Seruant , n. †A professed lover.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

[BM] The shame was that states enjoying the rights of Roman citizenship should need a patron to protect their interests in the Roman capital.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I may here recall a remark formerly made, namely that it might require a long succession of ages to adapt an organism to some new and peculiar line of life, for instance to fly through the air; but that when this had been effected, and a few species had thus acquired a great advantage over other organisms, a comparatively short time would be necessary to produce many divergent forms, which would be able to spread rapidly and widely throughout the world.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

A city of Arcadia, so named after Pallas, one of Lycaon's sons, according to Hesiod.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

'There is not,' said Mr Podsnap, flushing angrily, 'there is not a country in the world, sir, where so noble a provision is made for the poor as in this country.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

They had not exactly the same name as Patrick, for it was not so customary to use the O' or Mac in those days as it has since become.
— from The Life Story of an Old Rebel by John Denvir

Onyx, same name as pearl in Gaelic, 160 .
— from Ancient Man in Britain by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie

'At any rate,' Mr. Hawtrey continued, 'I see nothing at present but to let the matter go on, and for you to obtain, if possible, some decisive proof of the man's connection with these letters.
— from Dorothy's Double. Volume 1 (of 3) by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

When, a little while afterward, Mr. Bennet applied for a situation as book-keeper in the bank of which Mr. Van Boozenberg was president, that officer hung, drew, and quartered the English language, before the very eyes of Mr. Bennet, to show him how he despised it, and to impress him with the great truth that he, Jacob Van Boozenberg, a self-made man, who had no time to speak correctly, nor to be comely or clean, was yet a millionaire before whom Wall Street trembled—while he, Gerald Bennet, with all his education, and polish, and care, and scrupulous neatness and politeness, was a poverty-stricken, shiftless vagabond; and what good had grammar done him?
— from Trumps by George William Curtis

When 60 feet had run out, the candle stopped, and on stretching over I saw that it had reached a slope of ice which inclined very steeply northwards, and passed away under the rock, apparently into a fresh cavern.
— from Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland by G. F. (George Forrest) Browne

"She did not love her husband, for the mere reason, perhaps, that she was told it was her duty to love him and that it had become her second nature, a principle and a law of her conscience to resist inwardly all moral constraint."
— from George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings by René Doumic

It rather put me out, at first this morning, to see you and Miss Clare looking so neat and pretty, and to feel ashamed of Peepy and myself too; but on the whole, I hope I am better-tempered than I was, and more forgiving to Ma."
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXVII, August 1852, Vol. V by Various