Coming solely from the Ottomans, it might have signified only Ottoman hatred of Christians, and a vulgar ignorance as to genteel methods of expressing it; but coming from the Christianized, educated, politic British legation, it simply intimated that we were a sort of gentlemen and ladies who would bear watching!
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Le développement attendu d'internet est une panacée qui possède suffisamment d'évidence pour ne pas y insister: il ne s'agit pas d'une mode, mais d'une révolution des moyens de communication qui présente des avantages objectifs tellement forts qu'on ne voit pas, sauf nouveau saut technologique inattendu, comment elle pourrait ne pas se répandre.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Even the poor begin to hope; the old, wholesome superstition still lingers, that the sovereign can exercise power; and the suffering multitude are fain to believe that its remedial character may be about to be revealed in their instance.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Διαλλάσσω, ( διά & ἀλλάσσω ) to change, exchange; pass.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

(A translation of L. cum eius pace or eius pace ; ?not found elsewhere.)
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Louis Barthou, Beuve, A. Blaizot, François Camailhac, Eugène Planès, Escolier, etc.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

si contingat a daemonio, sufficit nobis ut convertat complexionem ad choleram nigram, et sit causa ejus propinqua cholera nigra ; the immediate cause is choler adust, which [1245] Pomponatius likewise labours to make good: Galgerandus of Mantua, a famous physician, so cured a demoniacal woman in his time, that spake all languages, by purging black choler, and thereupon belike this humour of melancholy is called balneum diaboli , the devil's bath; the devil spying his opportunity of such humours drives them many times to despair, fury, rage, &c., mingling himself among these humours.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

C. External pterygoid process lying on the levator and tensor palati muscles.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

From thence she too could look over all the world and see what was happening, and, according to the belief of our ancestors, she possessed the knowledge of the future, which, however, no one could ever prevail upon her to reveal, thus proving that Northern women could keep a secret inviolate.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

Un voyageur racontait avec un air de vérité des histoires si incroyables qu'un de ses auditeurs, vexé de son impertinence, lui dit: «Mais, monsieur, tout cela est peu de chose quand je puis vous assurer que le célèbre organiste
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

The integument of insects is often clothed, either partially or generally, with pubescence , or hairs of various kinds—a circumstance which seems to have more than one object.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

638-675); G. Raynaud, Recueil des motets francais des XIIe et XIIIe siecles (1882); Canchons et Partures des . . .
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

(follow): (1) sequel, sequence, consequence, subsequent, consecutive, execute, prosecute, persecute, sue, ensue, suitor, suitable, pursuit, rescue, second; (2) obsequies, obsequious, sequester, inconsequential, non sequitur, executor, suite.
— from The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor

And he can even picture operatives at work in their various avocations, and the flashing windows, though themselves silent, are the visible index of the light within which illuminates and makes possible the work there performed.
— from The Source and Mode of Solar Energy Throughout the Universe by Isaac W. (Isaac Winter) Heysinger

It's better not to commit even peccadillos,” said the rabbi.
— from The Yoke of the Thorah by Henry Harland

"Eh, never you fear, Miss Dolly, I'll cook 'em prime."
— from The World Before Them: A Novel. Volume 2 (of 3) by Susanna Moodie

Par chatieres et par crevaces.
— from The Fairy Mythology Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries by Thomas Keightley

In Yeovil Church Accounts, A. D. 1457, is an item, “ In una cordul empt p le salsyngbelle ijd .”—Collectanea
— from The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. by Matthew Holbeche Bloxam

The description in the thirteenth stanza, for example, of the effects on poetry and literature produced by the Restoration, and that of the return of liberty, Without whose charms even peace would be
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 10 by John Dryden

Desto mi arepiento de buen coraçon e de buena voluntad e pido a Dios misericordia e a vosotros señores me deys penetencia lo qual yo con buen coraçon esto para la recebir, e dixo que su marido se
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2 by Henry Charles Lea