Votre paye était en arrière; il était souvent votre débiteur.--Qu'est-ce que cela fait, dit vivement le grenadier, si nous voulions lui faire crédit?» Donnez, en français, des définitions des noms qui se trouvent dans cette anecdote.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

[8] —Los vientos alisios, que vienen del nordeste, al pasar por el Golfo de Méjico, se cargan de humedad, la cual depositan en forma de lluvia en las faldas de las montañas que directamente se les oponen, es decir, el borde oriental de la meseta
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The undergrowth of the several tracts of country above considered includes a great variety of shrubs, vines, brambles, grass and other herbage, to be enumerated in a botanical catalogue daily expected from Dr. James.
— from James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 4 by Thomas Say

You will find Manuel, our Indian guide, a never-ending source of entertainment; he can do everything from dressing a moose to building a canoe.
— from The Story of Porcelain by Sara Ware Bassett

in diameter, over which has been pasted the gore map composed of twelve sections, each cut at the parallel of 70 degrees both north and south, the polar space being covered with circular discs each forty degrees in diameter.
— from Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy by Edward Luther Stevenson

He came down, every few days, to the little village before named as the place where the court was held, and lounged for hours about the tavern; which, during the winter season, was the common resort of the settlers.
— from Gaut Gurley; Or, the Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life by Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson

’ aree dictorum fratrum de ordine Minorum ibidem contiguam de eisdem fratribus de penitencia Iħu Xp̄ī adquisivissent, et iidem fratres de ordine Minorum aream illam
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

C. dayes eye; F. daysie.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer