Pero aunque el rendimiento de carne ha mejorado, no ha ocurrido lo mismo
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Croustillac, in order not to compromise the part he was playing, deemed it wisest to maintain an extreme reserve; De Chemerant was not surprised; he knew the reserved character of the English.
— from A Romance of the West Indies by Eugène Sue

Ef there'd been anybuddy else roun', dey couldn't 'a' got 'way dout our seein' 'em."
— from Maid Sally by Harriet A. (Harriet Anna) Cheever

[1] To this department of his public life belong the dispatches and Relazioni which he sent home to the Signory of Florence, his Monograph upon the Massacre of Sinigaglia, his treatises upon the method of dealing with Pisa, Pistoja, and Valdichiana, and those two remarkable studies of foreign nations which are entitled Ritratti delle Cose dell' Alemagna and Ritratti delle Cose di Francia .
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds

M. Larroumet declares the portrait to possess "the incontestable merit of being a superb work of art," and greatly prefers it to the one by Fontaine, which shows us the actress " en robe de chambre ," with her hair dressed in the fashion of the day.
— from Queens of the French Stage by H. Noel (Hugh Noel) Williams

Mima shrugged her broad shoulders sarcastically and retired, and madame sprung out of bed, thrust her feet into satin slippers, and huddled on an elaborate robe de chambre .
— from Little Nobody by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

I looked at her with an ever renewed delight, comparing her to the Aniela of the past.
— from Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Luck at length returned: after a long day, during which several stags and one pig had been bagged, we reached a small mancha known as "El Rincon del Cerro Trigo."
— from Wild Spain (España agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Abel Chapman

[474] Guillaume Edeline was tried in 1453; he was 'docteur en théologie, prieur de S. Germain en Laye, et auparavant Augustin, et religieux de certaines aultres ordres.
— from The Witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology by Margaret Alice Murray