Barbarous Latin, vulgarly called Dog Latin, in Ireland Bog Latin.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Papa said you would call,’ continued he, after recovering a little from Catherine’s embrace; while she stood by looking very contrite.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

20 —Están prendiendo gente—añadid D. Inocencio, bajando la voz, cual si debajo de cada silla estuviera un soldado.-Sospechan, sin duda, que los de aquí no les aguantarían sus pesadas bromas y han ido de casa en casa echando mano a todos los que tenían fama de valientes.... 25 La señora se arrojó en un sillón y apretó fuertemente los dedos contra la madera de los brazos del mueble.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Poirot made me recapitulate the scene of the night before, listening very carefully, and verifying the position of the various cups.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

This passage has since been called King's Sound; but large vessels cannot pass through it, unless the waters are very high.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Under the military government of the Mamelukes, Syria was supposed to contain sixty thousand villages, (Histoire de Timur Bec, l. v. c. 20.)]
— 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

de Timour Bec, l. v. c. 13) allows Bajazet a round number of 12,000 officers and servants of the chase.
— 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

A door is heard opening below; laughing voices, CLAIRE listens, not pleased.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

"Why," remarked the colonel, "I did have a momentary suspicion that day of the Montgomery business; they both looked very confused, when I saw them at the end of that street, and neither of them had anything to say; but that was accounted for by what you told me afterwards about his adventure.
— from A Chance Acquaintance by William Dean Howells

[116] 240 Mina, Calved March 19th, 1861; bred by and the property of George B. Lockwood , Victory, Cayuga County, N. Y. Sire Somerville (563); 2d sire Frank Quartly (205).
— from Herd Record of the Association of Breeders of Thorough-Bred Neat Stock Short Horns, Ayrshires and Devons by Various

“Yes, the Doldrums, or Sargasso-sea, where ships used to be detained by long, vexatious calms, and islands of floating sea-weed, but which now we escape, because studious men have pointed out, that by sailing to one side of that sea you can get into favourable breezes, avoid the calm regions, and thus save much time.”
— from Rivers of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

If that were taken away, there would be little visible change; but the heart would be gone.
— from Letters from America by Rupert Brooke

Consequently, the various companies had marched off from different points on the line Dar-es-Salaam-Mpapua, and were for the most part converging on Handeni, while some were directed on other points on the line Tanga-Korogwe, when I was called up on the telephone at Pugu on the afternoon of August 23rd, by Lieutenant von Chappuis, who was encamped at Bagamoyo with the 17th Field Company.
— from My Reminiscences of East Africa by General von (Paul Emil) Lettow-Vorbeck

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— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

We waded a river, toiled up a long slope, and came out far above a beautiful little vale completely boxed in by perpendicular hillsides.
— from Vagabonding down the Andes Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires by Harry Alverson Franck

As the boys listened voices came distinctly to their ears.
— from Boy Scouts in Mexico; Or, On Guard with Uncle Sam by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson