A portico, Albeit it stands well propped from end to end On equal columns, parallel and big, Contracts by stages in a narrow cone, When from one end the long, long whole is seen,— Until, conjoining ceiling with the floor, And the whole right side with the left, it draws Together to a cone's nigh-viewless point.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

Still, the latter does not seem to decide clearly whether truth-speaking is absolutely a duty, needing no further justification: or whether it is merely a general right of each man to have truth spoken to him by his fellows, which right however may be forfeited or suspended under certain circumstances.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

15 Hanc non reprimere, sed augere imperatores debent; neque frustra antiquitus institutum est, ut signa undique concinerent clamoremque universi tollerent: quibus rebus et hostes terreri et suos incitari existimaverunt.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

To right and left of the summer-house stretched uneven clay cliffs.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He had been presented to me as an advocate of the authority of Conscience; and his argument, put summarily, seemed to be that because reflection on our impulses showed us Conscience claiming authority therefore we ought to obey it.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

“It’s very wrong, and, more than that, it’s so uncomfortable,” complained Cecily.
— from The Story Girl by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The northern part of that vast empire, however, was long before inhabited by Slavic nations, who seem to have been divided into small states under chiefs chosen by themselves; to have been peaceable in their character, and most of them tributary to more powerful neighbours.
— from Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations With a Sketch of Their Popular Poetry by Talvj

te, Cinna, rogabo; illud deinde sequens ut cito, Cinna, neges.
— from Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler

"Don't shoot us, captain," called one of the men.
— from The Rover Boys on Land and Sea: The Crusoes of Seven Islands by Edward Stratemeyer

He may be so unfortunately constituted (cross-grained the other would say) that he is unable to derive any amusement from the game unless it is played with a modicum of intelligence; it is just possible that instead of considering gold as dross, as an accursed thing to be got rid of at the earliest
— from Whist; or, Bumblepuppy? Thirteen Lectures Addressed to Children by John Petch Hewby

On motion of Mr. Bibb , Resolved , That the injunction of secrecy, so far as concerns "An act to enable the President of the United States, under certain contingencies, to take possession of the country lying east of the Perdido, and south of the State of Georgia and the Mississippi Territory, and for other purposes," passed on the twelfth of January, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and "A bill authorizing the President to take possession of a tract of country lying south of the Mississippi Territory and of the State of Georgia, and for other purposes;" passed the twenty-fifth of June last, and the proceedings thereon, respectively, be removed.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The nitrogeneous compounds—vegetable albumen, gluten—which are contained in the grape, and which are dissolved in the must as completely as the sugar, under certain circumstances turn into the fermenting principle, and so change the must into wine.
— from The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines by George Husmann