Mr. Pickwick’s brow darkened during the recital.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

*Entretien du 9 novembre 2000 = Utilisez-vous encore beaucoup de documents papier?
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The finest of Kālidāsa’s works are, it cannot be denied, defective as stage-plays.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

[188] As against the positions taken by Sir William Hamilton and Mr. Mansel, Mr. Spencer's argument may unquestionably be deemed decisive.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

As a noun, barbarī, -ōrum , m., plur., savages, barbarians dux, ducis , m., leader (duke).
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

They belong to Saturn, and it is found by experience, that the decoction of the herb, either in white or red wine being drank, doth stay inward bleedings, and applied outwardly it does the like; and being drank, helps to expel urine, being stopped, and gravel and stone in the reins and kidneys.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Derby ;— phr. : father Derbies bands , handcuffs, S3; Darbies bands , DG; darbies , DG.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

borracho drunk, drunkard.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

“But deep down in your heart you do not believe the Meadow-Brook Girls stand the slightest chance of winning even a place in the tennis tournament at Newtown?” persisted the guardian.
— from The Meadow-Brook Girls on the Tennis Courts; Or, Winning Out in the Big Tournament by Janet Aldridge

Au Bonheur des Dames.
— from A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; by J. G Patterson

De gobbler's got a big fan tail, De pattridge's tail is small; Dat peacock's tail 's got great big eyes, But dey don't see nothin' 'tall.
— from Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley

“Placing his wife upon his shoulders, he proceeded to cross the space that separated him from the object of his desires, but no sooner did he touch the shore than trees, flowers, fruits, birds, all that they had perceived from the opposite side, in an instant vanished amidst terrific clamor; ... the rocks by which they had crossed sunk beneath the waters, a few [pg 126] sharp peaks alone remaining above the surface, to indicate the place of the bridge which had been destroyed by Divine displeasure.
— from Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 5 Miscellaneous Later Essays by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

He had swum perhaps fifty feet, getting occasional glimpses of the lifeboat as it rose on the crest of a wave, when the flare on the vessel seemed to be dying down.
— from Tom Fairfield at Sea; or, The Wreck of the Silver Star by Allen Chapman

Ready at last, she flew down-stairs in high spirits with the list in her hand, and at once burst into the story, jumbling up Becky, Dennis, Dan, and Tuvvy the wheelwright in such a manner that her mother gazed at her distractedly.
— from Black, White and Gray: A Story of Three Homes by Amy Walton