entrance, entry; inlet, orifice, mouth, chops, lips, porch, portal, portico, propylon[obs3], door; gate, gateway; postern, wicket, threshold, vestibule; propylaeum[obs3]; skirts, border &c. (edge) 231.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

A cat could lie perfectly peacefully on the hearthrug whilst its master or mistress writhed in agony a yard away.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Quindi sentimmo gente che si nicchia ne l'altra bolgia e che col muso scuffa, e se' medesma con le palme picchia.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Where the public good does not evidently demand a change; it is certain, that the concurrence of all those titles, original contract, long possession, present possession, succession, and positive laws, forms the strongest title to sovereignty, and is justly regarded as sacred and inviolable.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

—Eso es; y cuando se le antoje—dijo don Inocencio sin poder contener la risa—hablará con Sócrates, San 5 Pablo, Cervántes y Descartes, como hablo yo ahora con Librada para pedirle un fosforito.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Noi eravam partiti gia` da ello, ch'io vidi due ghiacciati in una buca, si` che l'un capo a l'altro era cappello; e come 'l pan per fame si manduca, cosi` 'l sovran li denti a l'altro pose la` 've 'l cervel s'aggiugne con la nuca:
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Give the genitive and the gender of the nouns and the principal parts of the verbs: forbid rank, row brother force across savages horseman never mountain manliness, courage leader put, place time savage, barbarous sister seek captive hindrance, baggage man-of-war judge defeat, disaster fire tree foot soldier receive general highest fountain orator neither ... nor and not left tooth soldier month city victor daily live (verb) conquer consul mother retainer citizen head safety assail, storm begin march decoration bridge bird cease man river work (noun) and ship bank redoubt, fort sea tower drill (verb) legion terror into, to right (adj.)
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

No es raro que la propiedad se extienda desde una calle hasta la que limita la manzana por el lado opuesto, y en este caso la parte posterior está ocupada por el huerto
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

la cosecha es deficiente en cantidad y pobre en calidad, razón por la cual hay que importar gran parte del maíz que consume la población; pero esto mismo es un aliciente para iniciar en los países menos adelantados el cultivo perfeccionado de ese cereal.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The translator used a number of less common name forms and variant spellings: Cæus, Calisto, Lilybœus, Phyale, Phryxus, Progne: The original, Greek-derived forms are Cœus (Κοιος), Callisto (Καλλιστω), Lilybæus (Λιλυβαιος), Phiale (Φιαλη), Phrixus (Φριξος), Procne (Προκνη).
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

"Le jeune Satyre qui tient une flûte est trop semblable à celui du Capitole pour n'être pas de même une reproduction de l'un des deux Satyres isolés de Praxitèle, son Satyre d'Athènes ou son Satyre de Mégare; on pourrait croire aussi que le Satyre à la flûte a eu pour original le Satyre de Protogène qui, bien que peint dans Rhodes assiégée, exprimait le calme le plus profond et qu'on appelait celui qui se repose ( anapauomenos ); on pourrait le croire, car la statue a toujours une jambe croisée sur l'autre, attitude qui, dans le langage de la sculpture antique, désigne le repos.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

Zuidplaspolder -7 m highest point: Vaalserberg 322 m Netherlands Antilles lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m highest point: Mount Scenery 862 m New Caledonia lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Mont Panie 1,628 m New Zealand lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Aoraki-Mount Cook 3,754 m Nicaragua lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Mogoton 2,438 m Niger lowest point: Niger River 200 m highest point: Mont Bagzane 2,022 m Nigeria lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: Chappal Waddi 2,419 m Niue lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: unnamed location near Mutalau settlement 68 m Norfolk Island lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Mount Bates 319 m Northern Mariana Islands lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: unnamed location on Agrihan 965 m Norway lowest point: Norwegian Sea 0 m highest point: Galdhopiggen 2,469 m Oman lowest point: Arabian Sea 0 m highest point: Jabal Shams 2,980 m Pacific Ocean lowest point: Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench -10,924 m highest point: sea level 0 m Pakistan lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m highest point: K2 (Mt. Godwin-Austen) 8,611 m Palau lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Mount Ngerchelchuus 242 m Palmyra Atoll lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: unnamed location 2 m Panama lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Volcan de Chiriqui 3,475 m Papua New Guinea lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Mount Wilhelm 4,509 m Paracel Islands lowest point: South China Sea 0 m highest point: unnamed location on Rocky Island 14 m Paraguay lowest point: junction of Rio Paraguay and Rio Parana 46 m highest point: Cerro Pero (Cerro Tres Kandu) 842 m Peru lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Nevado Huascaran 6,768 m Philippines lowest point: Philippine Sea 0 m highest point: Mount Apo 2,954 m Pitcairn Islands lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Certain ladies, pretty prostitutes, intimate with high functionaries, were in the swing; one of them, whose white teeth are famous, nibbled whole streets on various occasions.
— from The Rush for the Spoil (La Curée): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

se précipita dons ses bras,=>se précipita dans ses bras, good terrra-cotta mouldings=>good terra-cotta mouldings la visage sérieux=>le visage sérieux On y voit une femme endormie dont l'attidude=>On y voit une femme endormie dont l'attitude eyes in the rotonda of the Vatican=>eyes in the rotunda of the Vatican île a été entrainée par la violence=>île a été entraînée par la violence construire le palais Pamphili, a créer la villa Pamphili, et a pamphiliser=>construire le palais Pamphili, à créer la villa Pamphili, et à pamphiliser S. Pancrado, ii. 452=>S.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

Ils n'oserent d'abord entrer, mais ils se mirent tous contre la porte pour écouter ce que disoient leur Pere & leur Mere.
— from Popular Tales by Charles Perrault

Common Dodder ( Cuscuta Gronovii ) is a very common little parasitic plant found in moist, shady thickets or among the shrubs and plants bordering ponds or streams.
— from Flower Guide: Wild Flowers East of the Rockies (Revised and with New Illustrations) by Chester A. (Chester Albert) Reed

Concerning library photocopying practices not authorized by this legislation, the committee recommends that workable clearance and licensing procedures be developed.
— from Reproduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Mensarum quaedam Smaragdinæ, aliquæ Haematistinæ, caeterorumque lapidum preciosorum per aurum sibimet coniunctorum.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt