portô, 1 carry on , gerô, 3 cart , carrus, -î, m. cause , causa, -ae, f. cavalry , equitâtus, -ûs, m. cease , cessô, 1 Cepheus , Cêpheus, -î, m. certain (a) , quîdam, quaedam, quoddam (quiddam) ( § 485 ) chicken , gallîna, -ae, f. chief , prînceps, -cipis, m. children , lîberî, -ôrum, m. plur.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

[103-2] en la soflama del tío 10 Juan Gómez, y miróle a fondo como para adivinar el sentido de aquella rara contestación; pero, no logrando leer nada en la fisonomía zorruna de su merced, parecióle oportuno añadir con fingida naturalidad: —Tampoco dejaría de agradarme
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

182 Procreation of children was among the ancients frequently called Ploughing and Sowing .
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

And if to this consideration we add that of the usefulness of supplies from this country, in the prosecution of military operations in the West Indies, it will readily be perceived that a situation so favorable would enable us to bargain with great advantage for commercial privileges.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

One of my friends--one of my friends, please to observe, not myself,” said Athos, interrupting himself with a melancholy smile, “one of the counts of my province--that is to say, of Berry--noble as a Dandolo or a Montmorency, at twenty-five years of age fell in love with a girl of sixteen, beautiful as fancy can paint.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

With regard to these Eastern Papuasians, Dr. A. C. Haddon first recognised that they came into the country as the result of a ‘Melanesian migration into New Guinea,’ and further, ‘That a single wandering would not account for certain puzzling facts.’ ” 2 The Papuo-Melanesians again can be divided into two groups, a Western and an Eastern one, which, following Dr. Seligman’s terminology, we shall call the Western Papuo-Melanesians and the Massim respectively.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

—This is the reason, may it please your reverences, that some of the lowest and flattest compositions pass off very well——(as Yorick told my uncle Toby one night) by siege.——My uncle Toby looked brisk at the sound of the word siege, but could make neither head or tail of it.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

When Vronsky went to Moscow from Petersburg, he had left his large set of rooms in Morskaia to his friend and favorite comrade Petritsky.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Inside, his body was concentrated with a flexible, charged power all of its own, isolated.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

In a field called Parc-y-Bigwrn, near Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire, are the remains of a cromlech destroyed many years ago, concerning which an old man named John Jones related a superstitious tale.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

From this time dates the introduction of the taste for military life and foreign conquests, peculiar [Pg 184] to the Celtic race, and the tendency to concentrate and consolidate the sovereign authority, which characterized the Roman.
— from The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Gobineau, Arthur, comte de

[11] Still further, it has been declared in Delaware, that, on indictment of a white man for kidnapping a free colored person, the latter is not competent to prove his freedom.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 11 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

"Dr. Saxham said it was a frightfully clever, practicable method.
— from That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan

Grattan (as I have already explained), taking his ideas from his lay friends among the cultured classes, and seeing the decline of the Papal influence on the continent, considered that anyone who regarded Popery as a political influence of the future totally misunderstood the principles which then governed human action; for controverted points of religion (such as belief in the Real Presence) had ceased to be a principle of human action.
— from Is Ulster Right? by Anonymous

The largest was a regular hot-house bouquet of tea-rosebuds, scentless heath, and smilax; the second was just a handful of sweet-peas and mignonette, with a few cheerful pansies and one fragrant little rose in the middle; the third, a small posy of scarlet verbenas, white feverfew, and green leaves.
— from Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various

In the hall a framed certificate praising the drains, the bust of Hermes, and a carved teak monkey holding out a salver.
— from The Longest Journey by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

He had only to say to himself: "I will not let salvation be limited to a few chosen people.
— from Christianity as Mystical Fact, and the Mysteries of Antiquity by Rudolf Steiner