celaje m broken clouds; colored clouds; storm-scud. celebrar t celebrate, applaud, laud, extol; hold (a meeting etc.); execute (a legal document etc.); ( not in A. ) be glad of. célebre famous. celeste celestial.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Romanus could not be alleged as a legitimate emperor; he was a plebeian usurper, ignorant of the laws, and regardless of the honor, of the monarchy.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Hoti d' hai periphereis ines, hais peristelletai ta t' alla moria kai hê gastêr, ou synairousi to mêkos, alla systellousi kai stenousi tên eurytêta, kai par' autou labein estin homologoumenon Erasistratou; peristellesthai gar phêsi tois sitiois tên gastera kata ton tês pepseôs hapanta chronon.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

He knew her, and lifting either hand to heaven, with this cry pursued her flight: 'Iris, grace of the sky, who hath driven thee down the clouds to me and borne thee to earth?
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

H2 anchor Feuds Of Private Families In all Common-wealths, if a private man entertain more servants, than the government of his estate, and lawfull employment he has for them requires, it is Faction, and unlawfull.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

The average boy of to-day who wishes to obtain a liberal education has a better chance by a hundredfold than had Daniel Webster or James A. Garfield.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

After a long examination he was desired to abjure, which he refused without the least hesitation.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Buddhism, being the dominant force in the thoughts of the Japanese for at least eight hundred years, furnished the food for the requirements of man on his intellectual and religious side.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Although, like every human being, the Kula native loves to possess and therefore desires to acquire and dreads to lose, the social code of rules, with regard to give and take by far overrides his natural acquisitive tendency.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Boldwood at last expressed himself nearly satisfied, and paid the bill, the tailor passing out of the door just as Oak came in to report progress for the day.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Kitty, who had drawn back a little, eyed her mother oddly.
— from The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

But scarcely had he laid his head on the pillow when he heard the voice of one entering the room, and listening eagerly, he discovered that it was no other than the traitor Winterton's, the which so amazed him with apprehension that he shook as he lay, like the aspen leaf on the tree.
— from Ringan Gilhaize, or, The Covenanters by John Galt

The naval officers remonstrated strenuously against longer exposing his fleet on an insecure coast, at a tempestuous season of the year, and urged the danger of being overtaken by a British squadron, when broken and scattered by a storm, with a degree of persevering earnestness which the Count found himself incapable of resisting.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

There's the robbery at the Anglo-Chinese Bank; and Lady Eccleston has been kidnapped, as you know....
— from The Blonde Lady Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsène Lupin and the English Detective by Maurice Leblanc

It required a deal of courage to sleep in a large, empty house.
— from The Corner House by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White

He at length effected his purpose, and escaped with the diamond to Madras, where he sold it to the captain of a ship for a sum equal to 2,500 l. of British money.
— from Useful Knowledge: Volume 1. Minerals Or, a familiar account of the various productions of nature by William Bingley

"Nay​—​'tis not witchery, sweetest Rocelia," said Isabel, seating herself beside her fair-haired cousin and lovingly entwining her arms about her 86 slender form.
— from The Red Tavern by C. R. (Charles Raymond) Macauley

Mr. Giles seemed moved, for him almost a little embarrassed; he seemed to blush, and then he cleared his throat.
— from Lothair by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

If an emancipated Negro for any reason was held in slavery and later established his right to freedom in court, he could not recover compensation for his services or damages for his detention, unless he could prove that he was held under full knowledge of his right or with good reason to believe him free.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various