Antes se debía esperar 75 años, ahora debemos esperar 95 años.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

búsu v 1 [A; a] dive, esp.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He was to send his letters to Mere Rollet, and she gave him such precise instructions about a double envelope that he admired greatly her amorous astuteness.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

“The fact is this monstrous difference in age and development excites your sensuality!
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The military force of the Turks and their allies marched in seven equal and artificial divisions; each division was formed of thirty thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven warriors, and the proportion of women, children, and servants, supposes and requires at least a million of emigrants.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The effect of alternating harmony produced between two melodic figures, e.g. one transmitting a note, held in abeyance, to the other, or the simultaneous progression of a figure in augmentation and diminution etc. becomes comprehensible and pleasant to the ear when the fundamental sustained harmony is different.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

In the first place it gives at least half an hour’s occupation, an object in itself worth something to persons living in the country, and then it gives a cachet or rather chic to your dinner party, however small it may be, and is in itself a certain amount of restraint on excessive exuberance of spirits, and thus may be considered as a disciplinary element of education tending to keep up that reserve and self-restraint characteristic of Englishmen.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

And this may appear from many other circumstances, and especially from the pontifical rites and funeral obsequies, which men of the greatest genius would not have been so solicitous about, and would not have guarded from any injury by such severe laws, but from a firm persuasion that death was not so entire a destruction as wholly to abolish and destroy everything, but rather a kind of transmigration, as it were, and change of life, which was, in the case of illustrious men and women, usually a guide to heaven, while in that of others it was still confined to the earth, but in such a manner as still to exist.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

He kept on shouting his orders to the Danaans and exhorting them to defend their ships and tents; neither did Hector remain within the main body of the Trojan warriors, but as a dun eagle swoops down upon a flock of wild-fowl feeding near a river—geese, it may be, or cranes, or long-necked swans—even so did Hector make straight for a dark-prowed ship, rushing right towards it; for Jove with his mighty hand impelled him forward, and roused his people to follow him.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Around the hall, along the lofty wall, between the doors, between the windows, between the pillars, the interminable row of all the kings of France, from Pharamond down: the lazy kings, with pendent arms and downcast eyes; the valiant and combative kings, with heads and arms raised boldly heavenward.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

(a) Distinct Entity.--The Agency shall be maintained as a distinct entity within the Department.
— from Homeland Security Act of 2002 Updated Through October 14, 2008 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security

He was alone all day, except for an occasional visit from the good-natured German woman who kept their rooms, and, although he was a voracious reader, the doctor had forbidden all thought of study for a year, even had there been a school near enough for him to attend, where John would have been willing to send him.
— from A Beautiful Possibility by Edith Ferguson Black

Dabney, W. D. The Public Regulation of Railways Dillon, Sidney North American Review Dorn, Alexander Aufgaben der Eisenbahnpolitik Draper, J. W. Intellectual Development of Europe Encyclopedia, American.
— from The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee

Then again the reading was continued in a tone which fell like lead on the young souls of his audience, and deadened every free action of the mind.
— from Klytia: A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Adolf Hausrath

It would be unwomanly not to have an animal die every time she was hungry, so that her life might pick the bones of death.
— from Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by G. S. (George Sumner) Weaver

One girl in our room was a capital hit, short hair brushed back from a clever forehead and a double eyeglass on an out-thrust nose.
— from An Autobiography by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Southerden Thompson) Butler

It runs as follows: "Know all men that we, the people of the valley of Uri, the community of the valley of Schwiz, and the mountaineers of the lower valley, seeing the malice of the times, have solemnly agreed and bound ourselves by oath to aid and defend each other with all our might and main, with our lives and property, {378} both within and without our boundaries each at his own expense, against every enemy whatever who shall attempt to molest us, either singly or collectively.
— from The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh