I therefore expect, sir, that recollecting everything I have the honor to state, you will not refuse to be reimbursed for the sums you have been pleased to advance for me.”
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Gratia et pulchritudo ita suaviter animos demulcent, ita vehementer alluciunt, et admirabiliter connectuntur, ut in inum confundant et distingui non possunt et sunt tanquam radii et splendores divini solis in rebus variis vario modo fulgentes.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

To this village Joan and Aderhold were swept together with the escaped slaves, the returned exiles.
— from The Witch by Mary Johnston

One man lets out 120 yearly, at a return (dropping the 5 s. ) of 360 l. ; while the cost of a good barrow, new, is 2 l. 12 s. , and in the autumn and winter they may be bought new, or “as good as new,” at 30 s. each; so that reckoning each to cost this barrow-letter 2 l. , he receives 360 l. rent or interest—exactly 150 per cent.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

"The earth" signifies the Roman empire, or that portion of the earth made the subject of apocalyptic vision.
— from The Revelation Explained An Exposition, Text by Text, of the Apocalypse of St. John by F. G. (Frederick George) Smith

The quarries of Carrara have been worked ever since the Roman epoch, and the tufted hillsides round about have been burrowed to their bowels in taking out this untold wealth which, without exaggeration, has been as great as that of many mines of gold.
— from Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

Had a Congress representing eleven States the right, even if it had the power, to legislate for thirteen sovereign States?
— from The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830 by Edwin Erle Sparks

He could wish every citizen to possess a copy of this report, now received from the Secretary of the Treasury, under the call of the Senate, and printed by its order; he could wish every citizen to possess one of these authentic copies, bearing the imprimatur of the American Senate; but that was impossible; and, limiting his action to what was possible, he would propose to print such number of extra copies as would enable some to reach every quarter of the Union.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

Notwithstanding all these efforts, however, the Rabbins have not succeeded in entirely supplanting the right explanation, and in thus divesting the passage of all that is dangerous to their system.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

Away and away toward the empty sky the ragged edges of the cliffs were etched sharply upon the blue.
— from Overland Red: A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail by Henry Herbert Knibbs