The Oratio Obliqua of the original he renders partly as Reported Speech and partly as Oratio Recta.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

And as we are very far from the best imaginable world at present, Plato here, as in the Phaedo and Republic, supposes a purgatory or place of education for mankind in general, and for a very few a Tartarus or hell.
— from Gorgias by Plato

A Newfoundland adhesive shows an iceberg; a Toga stamp, a breadfruit-tree; a Tasmanian stamp, Tasman's Arch; a Kedah stamp, a sheaf of rice; a North Borneo stamp, a sago palm; a Columbian stamp, an American execution; a Bahamas stamp, a staircase; another Toga stamp, a prehistoric trilith; a Canadian stamp, a map of the British possessions; a Roumanian stamp, a picture of the Queen nursing a wounded soldier; a Portuguese stamp, the vision of St. Anthony; a Liberian stamp, a coffee plantation; a United States stamp, an aeroplane; and a Peruvian stamp, a suspension bridge.
— from Peeps at Postage Stamps by Stanley C. (Stanley Currie) Johnson

the Decadents would sometimes meet in Town, and See Life—a singularly uninteresting and unattractive side of Life (much more like Death), and the better men among them—better because of a little sincerity and pluck—would achieve a petty and rather sordid "adventure" perhaps.
— from Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren

He was well dressed and cleanly in [Pg 7] his person, and rather solemn and pompous in his manners.
— from The Kentuckian in New-York; or, The Adventures of Three Southerns. Volume 1 (of 2) by William Alexander Caruthers

I have been going out a good deal during the last three weeks, and mean to continue to do so while I am in London, partly because, as I am about to go away, I wish to see as much as I can of its pleasant and remarkable society, and partly, too, from a motive of policy , though I hate it almost as much as Sir Andrew Aguecheek did.
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

Vanslyperken threw them down on the table with every sign of perturbation, and remained silent and pale.
— from Snarleyyow; or, The Dog Fiend by Frederick Marryat

A shoemaker for the greater part of his life, Boehmen devoted the powers of a remarkable mind to philosophical and religious speculation, and produced works which, notwithstanding their mystical and well-nigh unintelligible character, are declared by some of the best authorities in Germany and England to have laid the foundation of metaphysics and philosophy.
— from Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers by W. E. (William Edward) Winks

Only he did not lead them to the room with the glowing plate, and Ross stifled a protest as they came instead to a small record room.
— from The Time Traders by Andre Norton

Beside the courthouse was a shooting gallery not overmuch used except during the two annual seasons of prosperity and reckless spending, and Pete Glass secured this place to test out applicants.
— from The Seventh Man by Max Brand