They will use the sugar only which has soon acquired a delicate vanilla perfume, and will replace the used sugar by a fresh supply.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

He took the half of his men with him, while the rest remained below, and we attacked them so vigorously with our swords, that at last they surrendered, and we took Salvatierra and Diego Velasquez prisoners.
— 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

“If you had come two days ago, Doña Victorina,” put in Capitan Tiago during a slight pause, “you would have met his Excellency, the Captain-General.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Still, no more sail is taken in, for the captain is a driver, and, like all drivers, very partial to his top-gallant sails.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

156,’—Scheffer-Boichorst, Aus Dantes Verbannung , page 213.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

la noche estaré aquí de vuelta; pues todo será apretar un poco a la caballería
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Relations anciennes des Voyageurs , par Renaudot.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

There are men at the Asylum near Binghamton, who have admirable wives, beautiful and accomplished daughters, venerable parents, whose portraits are there in the patient's trunks, and who write daily letters to cheer the absent one, whose absence now, for the firsts time in years, does not terrify them.
— from Smoking and Drinking by James Parton

A young Chinese lady embroiders under the lamp; but this virtuous occupation and tranquil appearance are deceitful: violent passions agitate her soul.
— from Wagner at Home by Judith Gautier

a DoMIno VenIT paX et VICtorIa Læta ; chronogrammatic .
— from A Guide to the Exhibition of English Medals by British Museum. Department of Coins and Medals

Political parties and leaders: Liberal Democratic Party or PLD [Analia de Victoria PEREIRA]; National Front for the Liberation of Angola or FNLA [disputed between Ngola KABANGU and Lucas NGONDA]; National Union for the Total Independence of Angola or UNITA (largest opposition party)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Wilson translates the word as “demigods” ( Vishnu Purâna , i. 130); but Raumas are simply a race, a tribe.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

In mid-April he was duly tried by his Peers at the Bar of the House of Lords; and, although he tried with marvellous skill and ingenuity to prove that he was insane when he committed the murder, he was, without a dissentient voice, pronounced "Guilty," and sentenced to be "hanged by the neck until he was dead," when his body should be handed over to the surgeons for dissection.
— from Love Romances of the Aristocracy by Thornton Hall

They both confessed themselves guilty of the Crime for which they suffered, acknowledged the Justice of their Sentence, and died very penitent.
— from Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by George Francis Dow

Adulterate, debase, vitiate, pervert, corrupt.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

[Pg 53] The near sand-hills went into rose, the crabbed yucca and the mesquite turned transparent, with lances and pale films of green, like drapery graciously veiling the desert’s face, and distant violet peaks and edges framed the vast enchantment beneath the liquid exhalations of the sky.
— from Red Men and White by Owen Wister