‘Postquam est mortem aptus Plautus, Comoedia luget, Scena est deserta, ac dein Risus, Ludus, Iocusque, Et Numeri innumeri simul omnes collacrumarunt.’
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

All day long the blazing midsummer sun beat down upon that square mile of abominations: upon tens of thousands of cattle crowded into pens whose wooden floors stank and steamed contagion; upon bare, blistering, cinder-strewn railroad tracks, and huge blocks of dingy meat factories, whose labyrinthine passages defied a breath of fresh air to penetrate them; and there were not merely rivers of hot blood, and car-loads of moist flesh, and rendering vats and soap caldrons, glue factories and fertilizer tanks, that smelt like the craters of hell—there were also tons of garbage festering in the sun, and the greasy laundry of the workers hung out to dry, and dining rooms littered with food and black with flies, and toilet rooms that were open sewers.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The fringing coral reef represents all stages of development and decay—live growth on the outer edge, ever encroaching on the deeper water, and comprising many varieties; dying masses on the shore-side, and a considerable extent of dead and denuded relics lying in mud.
— from Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

“Well, there is no damning a devil,” retorted Lousteau.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Having still to wait a couple of days for the departure of the steamer which was to take me on my trip down the coast of Dalmatia, I employed my time in paving a flying visit to San Canziano, where a good-sized river, after meandering down a deep ravine like any other Christian stream, suddenly plunges into the bowels of the earth, and after a mysterious course of many miles, reappears again at the surface under a different name, previous to losing itself in the Adriatic.
— from Rambles in Istria, Dalmatia and Montenegro by R. H. R.

Do all Devonshire roads lead up to Tavistock?"
— from Miss Primrose: A Novel by Roy Rolfe Gilson

Upwards of {176} 1,200 dead and dying Russians laid behind and around and in front of it, and many a tall English Grenadier was there amid the frequent corpses of Chasseur and Zouave.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir

A survey from the other side, where the remaining lamp lent a wavering illumination, showed they were travelling at an alarming pace down a deep rocky lane.
— from The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie

[331] “Walter Coppinger had been an arbitrator in deciding a dispute regarding landed property between Sir Fineen O’Driscoll and a relative of his named Fineen Catharach.
— from Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898 Childhood, boyhood, manhood; customs, habits and manners of the Irish people; Erinach and Sassenach; Catholic and protestant; Englishman and Irishman; English religion; Irish plunder; social life and prison life; the Fenian movement; Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

Suitable for the dining and drawing rooms, library, bedroom, hall, staircase, bracket, carriage, skeleton, chime, musical, night, astronomical, regulator, shop, warehouse, office, counting house, &c., 33 & 34, Ludgate Hill , London.
— from It May Be True, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Wood, Henry, Mrs.