5 Tum legiōnēs quae proximē cōnscrīptae erant tōtum agmen claudēbant.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The hills on either side of the creek extend to a considerable height, possibly more than a hundred feet.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

5 Ergo in hac vita M’. Curius, cum de Samnitibus, de Sabinis, de Pyrrho triumphavisset, consumpsit extremum tempus aetatis ; cuius quidem ego villam contemplans, abest enim non longe a me , admirari satis non possum vel hominis ipsius continentiam 10 vel temporum disciplinam .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Other emotions and sensations are called depressing, because they have not habitually led to energetic action, excepting just at first, as in the case of extreme pain, fear, and grief, and they have ultimately caused complete exhaustion; they are consequently expressed chiefly by negative signs and by prostration.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

The whole of the payments made by Germany would then be subject to the prior charge of repairing the material injury done to those countries and provinces which suffered actual invasion by the enemy; and I believe that the sum of $7,500,000,000 thus available would be adequate to cover entirely the actual costs of restoration.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

Let me go in, I thought, to my subordinate's; let me see how my clerks enjoy themselves and ... celebrate their wedding.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For this reason the Commission has not deemed it wise to recommend the example of other States which have committed the management of all their correctional establishments to a central board of control.
— from The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy 1919 (New Series, No. 58) by Pennsylvania Prison Society

It was indeed impossible that a son of so affectionate and noble a nature should not have 418 been warmly attached to a parent who possessed many fine qualities, and who carried his indulgence and liberality towards his children even to a culpable extent.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 4 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

England surrendered to France and her allies all conquests except Trinidad and Ceylon.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

Captain Eversleigh then asked Captain Fordyce’s permission to seat his friend, Mr. Maybury, in the place left vacant by Mr. Delessert, who was taking his meal no one knew where.
— from Her Sailor: A Love Story by Marshall Saunders

Here, finally, on the 3rd of May, 1788, the Marquis d’Agoult, commanding three detachments of French Guards, Swiss Guards, Sappers, and Cavalry, entered to arrest Counsellors d’Épréménil and Goislard, when the president, surrounded by 150 magistrates and seventeen peers of France, every one wearing the insignia of his dignity, called upon him to point out the two inculpated members, and exclaimed: “We are all d’Épréménil and Goislard!
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

[10] At this moment a slim little figure in black emerged from the main gateway leading into the street, calling excitedly: "They are coming, Grandmother; here they are now!"
— from After the Divorce: A Romance by Grazia Deledda

He almost never plays chorus to his characters, either through a commenting character or by direct interposition in the manner of Thackeray, though, of course, the characters again and again express his views.
— from Irish Plays and Playwrights by Cornelius Weygandt

Geography #_Total area: 7,781 km2; land area: 7,781 km2; includes Ile Amsterdam, Ile Saint-Paul, Iles Kerguelen, and Iles Crozet; excludes Terre Adelie claim of about 500,000 km2 in Antarctica that is not recognized by the US _#_Comparative area: slightly less than 1.5 times the size of Delaware _#_Land boundaries: none _#_Coastline: 1,232 km _#_Maritime claims: Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm (Iles Kerguelen only); Territorial sea: 12 nm _#_Disputes: Terre Adelie claim in Antarctica is not recognized by the US _#_Climate: antarctic _#_Terrain: volcanic _#_Natural resources: fish, crayfish _#_Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures 0%; forest and woodland 0%; other 100% _#_Environment: Ile Amsterdam and Ile Saint-Paul are extinct volcanoes _#_Note: located in the southern Indian Ocean about equidistant between Africa, Antarctica, and Australia _*
— from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

As it is, we have in our ignorance to establish the big groups by the study of adult structure, but we find, on putting together all we know of comparative embryology, that a classification of animals according to the mode of their development gives, as is only natural, the same four 128 groups as does the study of adult structure.
— from Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell