A small pantomime ensued, curious enough.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

SYN: Approval, satisfaction, praise, encouragement, confirmation, assent, consent, permission, commendation, concurrence, acceptance.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Per mille fraudes doctosque dolos ejicitur, apud sociam paupertatem ejusque cultores divertens in eorum sinu et tutela deliciatur.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

un "loco del trabajo" dedicando toda su vida a su proyecto, el cual ve como el origen de una revolución neo-industrial.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

They drink hard in Brittany (it is no unusual thing there to see a woman drunk), and so too in the manufacturing places of Normandy and other parts of France, especially those that produce no wine; and Champney, who doubtless studied from life, painted at Ecouen the picture of an old peasant-woman hauling her husband home in a hand-cart dead drunk ; but, for all that, the French are emphatically a sober people, either constitutionally or from climatic or other reasons: I do not pretend to say which.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various

SEE Instructions for attaching Singer picot edge cutting attachment … R65063.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1950 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Quos junxit unus, vita dum mansit, labor, Quos una clarat morte palma Martyres, Ambo sacrati principes exercitus, Coelo receptos una vos colit dies.
— from Hymni ecclesiae by John Henry Newman

It was a small planet, entirely covered by salt.
— from Do Unto Others by Mark Clifton

On the table was a small inkstand, perfectly clean, a steel pen, equally clean, on the rest attached to it.
— from Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

But from time to time appears some poor emaciated creature, dragging himself along with languid step, and leaning on the arm of a mother, brother or sister.
— from Afloat (Sur l'eau) by Guy de Maupassant

Five minutes later another car, with a soft purring engine came up to the Crossroads from Economy, slowed just a fraction as it crossed the Highway, the driver looking keenly at the barricade, then stopping his car with a sudden jerk and swinging out.
— from The City of Fire by Grace Livingston Hill

"We were living at Garden Green in a small plastered edifice called Clematis Villa.
— from The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Instructions for attaching Singer picot edge cutting attachment … R65063.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1950 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office