Tomarías algunas copas en el Casino, ¿no es esto?
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

IMG Figure 135 is a common Egyptian emblem, said to signify eternity, but in truth it has another meaning.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

846 One of the anthems for Vespers at Christmas: Exortum est in tenebris lumen rectis corde.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Arion made fishes follow him, which, as common experience evinceth, [3479] are much affected with music.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

After this explanation, Motecusuma and Cortes embraced each other twice successively, while the sly Doña Marina observed to the monarch that he ought to show some signs of grief at our departure: upon which he again commenced speaking, and offered to comply with any wish Cortes might express, and promised to give him 5000 of his troops to accompany us on our march.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

verb [ ex , forth , + orior , rise ], come forth, rise expedîtus, -a, -um , adj. without baggage ex-pellô, -ere, -pulî, -pulsus [ ex , out , + pellô , drive ], drive out ex-piô, -âre, -âvî, -âtus [ ex , intensive, + pîo , atone for ], make amends for, atone for explôrâtor, -ôris , m. [ explôrô , investigate ], spy, scout explôrô, -âre, -âvî, -âtus , examine, explore ex-pugnô, -âre, -âvî, -âtus [ ex , out , + pugnô , fight ], take by storm, capture exsilium, exsi´lî , n. [ exsul , exile ], banishment, exile ex-spectô, -âre, -âvî, -âtus [ ex , out , + spectô , look ], expect, wait ex-struô, -ere, -strûxî, -strûctus [ ex , out , + struô , build ], build up, erect exterus, -a, -um , adj., compared exterior, extrêmus or extimus , outside, outer ( § 312 ) extrâ , prep, with acc.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Fix took up a position, and carefully examined each face and figure which made its appearance.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

n. [ exsul , exile ], banishment, exile ex-spectō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus [ ex , out , + spectō , look ], expect, wait ex-struō, -ere, -strūxī, -strūctus [ ex , out , + struō , build ], build up, erect exterus, -a, -um , adj., compared exterior, extrēmus or extimus , outside, outer ( § 312 ) extrā , prep, with acc.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Even in science Boston could claim a certain eminence, especially in medicine, but Mr. Adams cared very little for science.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Si tamen ad explorandam nostri anima charitatem, et examinandi nostri pectoris fidem tale aliquid acciderit, nolite cunctari nuntiare hæc nobis litteris vestris, pro certo habentes ecclesiam nostram et fraternitatem istic universam, ne hæc ultra fiant precibus orare, si facta fuerint, libenter et largiter subsidia præstare.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

The band of the 3rd Battalion was stationed in town and gave us a concert every evening, also playing at our services on Sundays.
— from The Great War As I Saw It by Frederick George Scott

Internet hosts: 3.991 million (2009) country comparison to the world: 19 Internet users: 4.579 million (2008) country comparison to the world: 44 Transportation ::Denmark Airports: 92 (2009) country comparison to the world: 65 Airports - with paved runways: total: 28 over 3,047 m: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 7 1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 914 to 1,523 m: 12 under 914 m: 3 (2009) Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 64 914 to 1,523 m: 3 under 914 m: 61 (2009) Pipelines: gas 2,858 km; oil 107 km (2008) Railways: total: 2,667 km country comparison to the world: 63 standard gauge: 2,667 km 1.435-m gauge (640 km electrified) (2008) Roadways: total: 72,362 km country comparison to the world: 64 paved: 72,362 km (includes 1,032 km of expressways) (2006) Waterways: 400 km (2008) country comparison to the world: 88 Merchant marine: total: 327 country comparison to the world: 29 by type: bulk carrier 8, cargo 63, carrier 2, chemical tanker 78, container 84, liquefied gas 2, passenger/cargo 42, petroleum tanker 29, refrigerated cargo 7, roll on/roll off 8, specialized tanker 4 foreign-owned: 26 (Canada 1, Germany 1, Germany 9, Greece 4, Iceland 2, Norway 3, Sweden 6) registered in other countries: 534 (Antigua and Barbuda 19, Bahamas 67, Belgium 4, Brazil 2, Cayman Islands 3, Cyprus 4, Egypt 1, Estonia 1, France 2, Germany 1, Gibraltar 7, Hong Kong 24, Isle of Man 29, Italy 3, Jamaica 2, Liberia 12, Lithuania 5, Luxembourg 1, Malta 30, Marshall Islands 10, Mexico 2, Netherlands 29, Netherlands Antilles 2, Norway 25, Panama 40, Portugal 3, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 16, Singapore 87, South Africa 1, Spain 2, Sweden 4, Togo 1, UAE 1, UK 62, US 31, Venezuela 1) (2008) Ports and terminals: Aalborg, Aarhus, Copenhagen, Ensted, Esbjerg, Fredericia, Kalundborg Military ::Denmark Military branches: Defense Command: Army Operational Command, Admiral Danish Fleet, Island Command Greenland, Tactical Air Command, Home Guard (2008) Military service age and obligation: 18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; conscripts serve an initial training period that varies from 4 to 12 months according to specialization; reservists are assigned to mobilization units following completion of their conscript service; women eligible to volunteer for military service (2004)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

With this undue elevation of spirits had supervened an entire oblivion or contempt of those undefined apprehensions which had for so long weighed upon his mind, and to a certain extent estranged him from society; but as the night wore away, and his artificial gaiety began to flag, these painful feelings gradually intruded themselves again, and he grew abstracted and anxious as heretofore.
— from In a Glass Darkly, v. 1/3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

It was a custom, introduced by this prince and his ministry (very different, as I have been assured, from the practices of former times), that after the court had decreed any cruel execution either to gratify the monarch's resentment or the malice of a favorite, the emperor always made a speech to his whole council, expressing his great lenity and tenderness, as qualities known and confessed by all the world.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

This fancy or custom does, to a certain extent, explain Georges Marest’s behavior in the coucou.
— from A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac

Johann himself, after long and miserable wanderings in disguise, bitterly repented, owned his crime to the Pope, and was received into a convent; Eschenbach escaped, and lived fifteen years as a cowherd.
— from A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

At last, one day, little Alice came, and in her sweet oval face, and calm, entreating eyes and raven hair, subdued beneath such a dainty frilled headdress, I saw our Blessed Lady and wondered and was glad.
— from My New Curate by Patrick Augustine Sheehan

This has a curious effect; everybody turns over at the same time, and it sounds like a shower of rain a second long.”
— from Sarah Bernhardt by Jules Huret