But Cicero argues that the legal effect of the Senatus consultum ultimum was to disenfranchise Lentulus and his associates, and to place them in the position of outlaws .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

In passing, he spoke of submarine passages, mentioned a project of Don Custodio’s, called attention to the liberal education and wide travels of the priest.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

The Marquis D’Oyse, to his shame, consented, and promised to marry her himself on her attaining the age of twelve, if the father would pay him down the sum of a hundred thousand crowns, and twenty thousand livres every year until the celebration of the marriage.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

But still a few here and there were indulging in that luxury; yet few as they were Captain Anthony, though the least exclusive of men, resented their presence.
— from Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad

This calculation applied to the labor employed in the various processes of a manufactured article gives its price relatively to other articles.
— from Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy

AB is the window board, C is the negative box, D is the camera adjusted to the latter, E is the enlarging screen on an easel to hold the bromide paper, and F is the reflector.
— from Bromide Printing and Enlarging A Practical Guide to the Making of Bromide Prints by Contact and Bromide Enlarging by Daylight and Artificial Light, With the Toning of Bromide Prints and Enlargements by John A. Tennant

Y a tan continuo vértigo, A tan funesto encanto, 1620 A tan horrible canto, A tan tremenda lid, Entre los brazos lúbricos Que aprémianle sujeto Del hórrido esqueleto, 1625 Entre caricias mil, Jamás vencido el ánimo, Su cuerpo ya rendido Sintió desfallecido Faltarle Montemar; 1630 Y a par que
— from El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections by José de Espronceda

Pearl blew one last smoke ring, tossed away her cigarette, and turned those lustrous eyes on him.
— from Mrs. Radigan: Her Biography, with that of Miss Pearl Veal, and the Memoirs of J. Madison Mudison by Nelson Lloyd

In less strenuous times, and in a calmer atmosphere, the two leaders, equally patriotic, would have found no difficulty in removing misunderstandings.
— from Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by John Spargo

"The very oddest plates in your collection are those two large earthenware dishes, especially that large circular dish, with sloping sides and flat base, decorated with tulips."
— from Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" by Edith May Bertels Thomas

Hand sought for hand, feet moved companionably as though they loved each other; quietly intimate they tripped without faltering, and, then, the loud song arose—they sang to the lovers of gaiety and peace, long defrauded “Come to us, ye who do not know where ye are—ye who live among strangers in the house of dismay and self-righteousness.
— from The Crock of Gold by James Stephens

Their edge is but dullish it must be confest, And their temper, like Ellenborough's, none of the best; But you'll find them good hardworking Tools, upon trying, Were't but for their brass they are well worth the buying; They're famous for making blinds , sliders , and screens , And are some of them excellent turning machines.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

I had intended to speak of them afterwards, for it is to my mind quite as significant—almost as awful—a sign of what is going on in the midst of us, that our great English poet should have suffered his work to be thus contaminated, as that the lower Evangelicals, never notable for sense in the arts, should have got their Bibles dishonored.
— from Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work by John Ruskin