We took also a large number of gilt-heads, about one and a half inches long, tasting like dorys; and flying pyrapeds like submarine swallows, which, in dark nights, light alternately the air and water with their phosphorescent light.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

The Pyrates being in great Want of Water and fresh Provisions, Low sent to the Governor of St. Michael ’s for a Supply, and promised upon that Condition to release the Ships he had taken, but otherwise to burn them all; which Demand the Governor thought it not prudent to refuse, but sent the Provision he required, upon which he released six of the Ships, (after he had plundered them of what he thought fit,) and the other, viz.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Io era volto in giu`, ma li occhi vivi non poteano ire al fondo per lo scuro; per ch'io: <>.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

You have a few prejudices left; so you think that I am a scoundrel, do you?
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Venires iniquarum coenarum reliquiis differtiunt, iisdem pro arbitro abulentes : Rich men keep these lecturers, and fawning parasites, like so many dogs at their tables, and filling their hungry guts with the offals of their meat, they abuse them at their pleasure, and make them say what they propose.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

She could only smile a frozen, polite little smile, and say that it "did not matter.
— from The Second Latchkey by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

And underlying all was a fierce, passionate longing she could not still, to see Bertram Chesleigh's face once more, to hear again that musical, luring voice, whose accents she had hung upon so fondly.
— from Little Golden's Daughter; or, The Dream of a Life Time by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

[I] all of a certain dark tinge and with suspicious spots which showed old age; the cheese of Murviedo, tender and fresh, pieces like soft white loaves still dripping whey.
— from The Cabin [La barraca] by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Except at favorable points like Stony Creek, where a small stream leads from one lake to another, there are no villages because there are no fish.
— from The Trail of the Goldseekers: A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse by Hamlin Garland

179 Exactly equivalent to the taboo of the Pacific Islanders is the pomali of the natives of Timor; “a few palm leaves stuck outside a garden as a sign of the pomali will preserve its produce from thieves as effectually as the threatening notice of man-traps, spring-guns, or a savage dog, would do with us.”
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

Shell smooth clouded with zig-zag brown lines, pillar blueish and four plaited: lip subulate.
— from The Naturalist's Repository, Volume 1 (of 5) or Monthly Miscellany of Exotic Natural History: etc. etc. by E. (Edward) Donovan

Harington Beard Edmund D. Brooks Elbert L. Carpenter Robert W. De Forest Alfred F. Pillsbury Laurits S. Swenson EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS The Mayor of Minneapolis The President of the Board of Park Commissioners The President of the Library Board The President of the Board of Education [pg vii] PREFACE
— from Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts With 143 Illustrations by Harry B. (Harry Brandeis) Wehle