Atrevióse, pues, el codicioso Alcalde, aun a riesgo de comprometerse 20 más de lo que ya estaba, a llamar a un lado a Juan Falgueira
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

We have tried the use of atropin, adrenalin, thyroid and parathyroid extracts, cod liver oil, autolyzed yeast, lactose, sodium chloride, calcium chloride, etc., without noting any improvement.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

The lining of it, embossed cloth, represented a wild forest foliage, from the top, down to the sides, which, in the same stuff, were figured with fluted pilasters, with their spaces between filled with flower vases, the whole having a pay effect croon the eye, wherever you turned it.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

— N. answer, response, reply, replication, riposte, rejoinder, surrejoinder[obs3], rebutter, surrebutter[obs3], retort, repartee; rescript, rescription[obs3]; antiphon[obs3], antiphony; acknowledgment; password; echo; counter statement.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The customs and practices existed centuries before contact with Chinese letters, and long previous to the Shint[=o] literature which is now extant.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

The door then opened, and a plain elm coffin was slowly thrust forth, and laid by two men in fustian along the middle of the vehicle.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

He had a gold watch, and a gold curb chain with large gold seals; and he carried a pliant ebony cane with a gold top.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Pen , sb. a pen, enclosure, crib, Sh., SkD; penne , caula , Manip.; penez , pl. , S2.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

A figure like your father, Arm'd at all points exactly, cap-à-pé, Appears before them, and, with solemn march Goes slow and stately by them: thrice he
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

The variety of colour was not great; all the open spaces of the sky were pallid green, and all the wisps of cloud were leprous blue: it was the intensity of the hues that made the sight so overpowering, for the spaces of green shone with a clear glitter exactly like the quality of colours which you see on Crookes's tubes when a powerful electric current is passed through.
— from A Dream of the North Sea by James Runciman

"Ah, sir," said Lenhart, with the air of a philosopher, "every country has its Simple Simon's knife."
— from The Prussian Terror by Alexandre Dumas

And this being so, its occurrence does not demand a positive efficient cause.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

He preserved, with a perfectly easy conscience, the most absolute silence on the subject of Sally.
— from The Fallen Leaves by Wilkie Collins

If Whitman's irregularity was equally studied; if it gave us the same sense of something cunningly planned and wrought to a particular end, clipped here, curbed there, folded back in this line, drawn out in that, and attaining to a certain mechanical proportion and balance as a whole,—then there would be good ground for the critic's charge.
— from Whitman: A Study by John Burroughs

I am Pedro, el cocinero —Pedro, the cook.
— from The Crimson Conquest: A Romance of Pizarro and Peru by Charles B. (Charles Bradford) Hudson

He will be passionately a patriot, entirely convinced of your proposition that ‘the thought of a community is the life of a community,’ and almost as certain that the tide of our thought is ebbing.”
— from Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells