VOLP: Troth, your wife has shewn Herself a very woman; but you are well, You need not care, you have a good estate, To bear it out sir, better by this chance: Except Corbaccio have a share.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

± wrēon 1,2 to cover, clothe, envelop, conceal, hide : protect, defend .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

De cuántas partes se compone el cuerpo humano?
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

I tell you he has bought every trust, he has captured every cable, he has control of every railway line—especially of that railway line!”
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

XXIV La confesión Entre tanto Rosario, con el corazón hecho pedazos, sin poder llorar, sin poder tener calma ni sosiego, traspasada 25 por el frío acero de un dolor inmenso, con la mente pasando en veloz carrera del mundo a Dios y de Dios al mundo, aturdida y media loca, estaba a altas horas de la noche en su cuarto, puesta de hinojos, cruzadas las manos, con los pies desnudos sobre el suelo, la ardiente sien apoyada en el 30 172 borde del lecho, a obscuras, a solas, en silencio.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Il est également éditeur en ligne (revue, actes de colloques) et chercheur (histoire de la langue, évolution des médias du papier et du web).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Luego que concluí, el Comandante, hombre de más de 10 setenta años, exclamó con la fe sencilla de un militar antiguo, con el arranque de un buen español y con toda
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

She could not say from memory (who, in similar cases, ever can?) how many days had elapsed between the renewal of the doctor's attendance on his patient and the previous departure of Lady Glyde.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The inconveniencies resulting from the possession of its colonies, every country has engrossed to itself completely.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Why have you introduced her at a moment when I desired to talk of you?” “Oh! talk of me if you like,” cried Edna, clasping her hands beneath her head; “but let me think of something else while you do.”
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Indeed, it was scarcely reasonable to expect that a boy who had been educated to think that he might cheat every customer he could in the way of trade, should be afterwards scrupulously honest in his conduct towards the father whose proverbs encouraged his childhood in cunning.
— from The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for Children by Maria Edgeworth

Catapult has given place to cannon, pike has given place to musket, iron mail-shirt to coat of red cloth, saltpetre ropematch to percussion cap; equipments, circumstances have all changed, and again changed: but the human battle-engine, in the inside of any or of each of these, ready still to do battle, stands there, six feet in standard size.
— from Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle

This Pagan believed that Jesus could easily cure his slave; but, instead of presenting him to the physician as he ought to have done, he deputed some Jewish senators to wait on him.
— from Ecce Homo! Or, A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

Meanwhile, all that Masséna saw of the enemy, whom the Emperor had in past years stigmatised as the "slow and clumsy English," confirmed him in his opinion that the campaign was going to prove the most arduous he had ever undertaken.
— from Napoleon's Marshals by R. P. Dunn-Pattison

When Courschid enters Cairo, he will appoint you a pacha of two tails."
— from Mohammed Ali and His House by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

And though his mother loves you, too, 'tis not with a mother's love, and should children ever climb her knee calling her son their sire, she would deem you a governess befitting such as they, and nothing more.
— from Rosamond, or, the Youthful Error: A Tale of Riverside; And Other Stories by Mary Jane Holmes

Wonder if Cleek ever crossed him in something?
— from Cleek of Scotland Yard: Detective Stories by Thomas W. Hanshew

et quia Messias promissus fuerat Abraham et David oriturus ex eorum semine, et a populo Hebræo expectatus, et a Prophetis qui Hebræi erant vaticinatus, et ejus adventus, conversatio, passio, mors et resurrectio in sacrificiis, cultu, et ceremoniis Hebræorum legis erant præfigurata.
— from Demoniality; or, Incubi and Succubi by Ludovico Maria Sinistrari

Late in March Company E came home from the border.
— from The Guardsman by Homer Greene

“It’s a blessing those two children ever came here,” said Miss Abbie, at last.
— from Dick and Dolly by Carolyn Wells