El hijo de Caracas pasea su primera juventud por las plazas de las ruidosas cortes de la Europa extranjera; mientras el nativo de las Misiones gasta sus tiernos años en los campamentos de los ejércitos de un pueblo desgraciado, invadido por un usurpador injusto, y que defiende su independencia a esfuerzos de [3] patriotismo y de virtud....
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

If curves are more graceful than broken lines, the reason is that, while a curved line changes its direction at every moment, every new direction is indicated in the preceding one.
— from Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness by Henri Bergson

c. 35., appears to have some reference to the Query made by F. E. M.: "E nel detto mese di Febbraio, 1344, per lo comune si fece ordine, che qualunque cittadino dovesse avere dal comune per le prestanze fatte al tempo de' venti della balia, come
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 87, June 28, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

At this dreadful crisis he sees, or seems to see, "A fiend, in evil moments ever nigh, Death in her hand, and frenzy in her eye!
— from Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 1 (of 3) by John Ireland

England not only surpasses France in the number of its cattle, but the animals are also finer, and their flesh is of better quality; so that an Englishman may enjoy nearly double the quantity of animal food that France supplies to each of its inhabitants, and with the further advantage of better quality.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829 by Various

Enrico! mangia, e non dare a loro retta.
— from Castellinaria, and Other Sicilian Diversions by Henry Festing Jones

Et si nuncius vel aliquis extraneus accedat ad regionem illam, ipsi includunt eum in domo, et ministrant ei necessaria, donec negocium eius fuerit expeditum.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 02 by Richard Hakluyt

The most dreadful event, most evil, no doubt, in its effect on my self-conceit, happened when Mr. Dingwall Fordyce, who was a player of the class that we might to-day describe as "an indifferent scratch," asked me to play with him.
— from Fifty Years of Golf by Horace G. (Horace Gordon) Hutchinson

Ci sono avisi d'Ingliterra de' 14 del passalo che mostrano gli animi di la e massimamente Eboracense non dico inclinati ma accesi di desiderio di concordia con Francia'....
— from A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke