M. Virtutibus obstat / Res angusta domi —Straitened domestic means obstruct the path to virtue.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The subjunctive with quīn is used in clauses which complete the sense of verbs of restraining, abstaining, delaying, or doubting, when such verbs have a negative, expressed or implied.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

What Juvenal says—it is difficult to rise if your poverty is greater than your talent— Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi — is more applicable to a career of art and literature than to a political and social ambition.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

[2294] ab inopia ad virtutem obsepta est via , 'tis hard for a poor man to [2295] rise, haud facile emergunt, quorum virtutibus obstat res angusta domi .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In the former the notches or incisions, or sinuses , coming between the principal veins or ribs are directed toward the midrib: in the latter they are directed toward the apex of the petiole; as the figures show.
— from The Elements of Botany, For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray

"I will own, I am grieved, Lord Pembroke," said he, in a hurt and sorrowful tone, "to think that my good English barons should so far doubt their king, as to approach the very verge of rebellion and disobedience, to obtain what he could never have a thought of denying.
— from Philip Augustus; or, The Brothers in Arms by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Spedding’s article on the question, which is included in the volume of Reviews and Discussions (Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1879) was written in reply to Professor Nathaniel Holmes’ treatise on The Authorship of Shakespeare .
— from Bacon and Shakespeare by Albert Frederick Calvert

The tendency of the evil is, that the direct access to a communion with above is barred against the deluded and dependent devotee, much in the same manner as the votaries of Romanism are driven for aid to the intermediate intercession of the Virgin and the Saints.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various

Arthur made a formidable description of Lady Elizabeth’s discretion, underrated the value of Rickworth, and declared that it would be so tied up that Mark would gain nothing but a dull, plain little wife
— from Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

The Thirty-nine Articles took essentially Lutheran ground in treating of baptism, recognising it as a vehicle of regeneration and divine sonship, and the tractarians laid uncommonly great stress upon this article.
— from Church History, Volume 3 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

The absorbents arising by minute openings from all the internal surfaces, and continuing a similar contractile motion, transmit it, now called chyle, by all their gradually-enlarging branches, and through their general trunk, the thoracic duct, where it is blended with the lymph brought from other parts, into the great veins contiguous to the heart, where it is mixed with the venous or returning and dark-colored blood, and whence it flows into the anterior side of that organ.
— from Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Alexander Walker

Love is drawn to truth by the unerring magnetism of agony; it gives no pleasure to the lover to see ten doctors dancing with vociferous optimism round a death-bed.
— from The Defendant by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

But he got into Snuffy’s very own room at daybreak whilst we stood outside and heard him snoring; and very loud he must have snored too, for I could hear my heart thumping
— from We and the World: A Book for Boys. Part I by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing