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americana por el rígido concepto
9.—LOS EXTRANJEROS EN AMÉRICA (to the vocabulary section) Vengan en hora buena aquéllos que penetran al seno de la República por el pórtico siempre abierto del preámbulo constitucional, [1] dispuestos a labrar su propio bienestar, contribuyendo al engrandecimiento común al amparo de leyes cuya generosidad sólo podría compararse a la del surco dilecto, que retribuye sin usuras el sudor de las frentes; vengan en hora buena esos inmigrantes sanos y buenos, que incorporan nuevos glóbulos rojos a las arterias de la República y de cada uno de los cuales podría decirse, parafraseando un concepto ajeno, que es como una letra en el gran abecedario del progreso nacional; vengan en hora buena esos extranjeros como Burmeister, como Jacques, como Berg, como Gould, como Groussac, que han ilustrado el pensamiento de varias generaciones argentinas, y cuyo paso por los bufetes de la pública enseñanza nos permite afirmar que la República diluída en la triunfal policromía de un potente organismo joven, es americana por el rígido concepto de su propia autonomía; española por su tradición y por su lengua; alemana por su ejército; inglesa por la pujanza de sus grandes capitales; francesa por sus tendencias literarias e italiana por el hondo y permanente amor a las cosas altas y las cosas bellas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

a person ever really ceases
I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young—I mean, for a whole day at a time.
— from Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906) by Mark Twain

and potent engines retractile claws
In the next two cages, however, are animals who need no prehensile tails; for they are cats, furnished with those far more useful and potent engines, retractile claws; a form of beast at which the thoughtful man will never look without wonder; so unique, so strange, and yet as perfect, that it suits every circumstance of every clime; as does that equally unique form the dragon-fly.
— from At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies by Charles Kingsley

and Peter each render Christ
We find the four evangelists and Peter each render Christ's command to his apostles in very different language.
— from Water Baptism A Pagan and Jewish Rite but not Christian, Proven by Scripture and History Confirmed by the Lives of Saints Who Were Never Baptized with Water by James H. Moon

a pleb Each representing classes
And these two, a patrician and a pleb, Each representing classes now united By common misery, are foully hurt, And scarred by fierce injustice from the Ten.
— from Virginia: A Tragedy, and Other Poems by Marion Forster Gilmore

A pig enjoys raw corn
A pig enjoys raw corn, but a man requires corn cake at five times the cost.
— from Races and Immigrants in America by John R. (John Rogers) Commons

and potential energy remains constant
The universe is infinite, [Pg 248] and eternally in motion; the conversion of kinetic into potential energy, and vicissim , goes on uninterruptedly; and the sum of this actual and potential energy remains constant.
— from The Riddle of the Universe at the close of the nineteenth century by Ernst Haeckel


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