The sides and ceiling of the room, with the passages leading from the front door to it, were covered throughout with branchlets of the hemlock-spruce: nestling in the greenery of this perfect bower were innumerable little coloured lamps, each containing a floating light.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

( E. corallodendron , L.; E. carnea , Blanco.) Nom.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Edmond Cilfowyr , Esq., second son, styled by courtesy courtesy Lord Edmond Cilfowyr until 1840, when he succeeds as Duke of London.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Re neL mezo di in cima [ 128 ] deL piu alto monte q̃ foſſe Quando ariuaſſemo in cima Lo cap o genneralle li diſſe como li era caro hauere ſudato ꝓ loro
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

anda sin cesar, llevando el cargamento en las espaldas, a guisa de caracol.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

30 Estaba loco, y mi monomanía era la música, la corneta, la endemoniada corneta de llaves.... ¡Quería aprender, y aprendí!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

CLASS I.—Consisting of those who have gained ten marks:—M. C. Brodrick, M. Breffit, R. Brooke, A. Bradbury, H. Bagnall, N. Besley, J. Cooper, L. E. Curme, M. Cooper, F. G. Callcott, C. Debenham, M. Edwardes, H. G. Fraser, W. Farndale, F. Forrest, A. Golledge, D. von.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

And when hundreds of years had passed away, and the people had ceased to believe in Odin and Thor they still loved the memory of Baldur; and when they listened to the story of Christ and his death on the cross, they said He was like the beautiful one who had been slain by Hoerder; so the priests, to please the people, twined the cross with mistletoe, and to this day at Christmastime little English children, descendants of the fierce Norse rovers, gather the mistletoe, together with the holly and evergreen, and all bright and beautiful things, and deck the churches with them in honor of the birth of Him who came to destroy evil, and to bring peace on earth and good-will to men.
— from Children's Stories in American History by Henrietta Christian Wright

Multī convēnēre 8 studiō etiam 9 videndae novae urbis, māximē Sabīnī cum līberīs et coniugibus.
— from Selections from Viri Romae by C. F. L'Homond

[pg 019] the undulating line of our capital L [Cursive L] still recalls very strikingly the bent back of the crouching lion, [Egyptian character], which in the later hieroglyphic inscriptions represents the sound of L. If thus in our language we are Aryan, in our letters Egyptian, we have only to look at our watches to see that we are Babylonian.
— from Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 5 Miscellaneous Later Essays by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

He shook off his cousin's hand impatiently, and without another word disappeared in the crowd, leaving Eustace considerably perturbed.
— from Whom God Hath Joined: A Question of Marriage by Fergus Hume

( At nostræ tibi nulla ferent encomia musæ, Ipse canis, laudes et canis inde tuas ).
— from Baconian Essays by Smithson, E. W. (Edward Walter), active 19th century