La troupe met pied à terre, coupe le grain, le met en trousse, et remonte à cheval.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

militaire , qui concerne la guerre, les soldats; N. m. , soldat.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Huic seculo parum aptus es, aut potius omnium nostrorum conditionem ignoras, quibus reciproco quodam nexu, &c. Lorchanus Gollobelgicus, lib.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Ciascuna parte, fuor che l'oro, e` rotta d'una fessura che lagrime goccia, le quali, accolte, foran quella grotta.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

It turned out that she'd covered the crypto wars, the period in the early nineties when civil liberties groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation fought for the right of Americans to use strong crypto.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Capital letter , granda litero.
— from English-Esperanto Dictionary by J. C. (John Charles) O'Connor

Hitherto he had scarcely so much as shaken off the spell of the fresh and gracious influences that envelop a childhood in the country, like green leaves and grass.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and the British Dominion, being a Guide to Niagara, the White Mountains, the Alleghanies, the Catskills, the Adirondacks, the Berkshire Hills, the St. Lawrence, Lake Champlain, Lake George, Lake Memphremagog, Saratoga, Newport, Cape May, the Hudson, and other Famous Localities; with full Descriptive Sketches of the Cities, Towns, Rivers, Lakes, Waterfalls, Mountains, Hunting and Fishing Grounds, Watering-places, Sea-side Resorts, and all scenes and objects of importance and interest within the district named.
— from Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

Parents who used to make sacrifices to send a son to the university now count upon a scholarship, with the result that on the principle of ‘light come light go’ less use is made of opportunities.
— from Cambridge by M. A. R. (Mildred Anna Rosalie) Tuker

For the student of contemporary drama they are of surpassing interest in their freedom from conventional stage trickery and characterization; La Gioconda, La Citta Morta, are really lyric masterpieces in little, though many will wince at the themes, at their bold development and treatment.
— from Iconoclasts: A Book of Dramatists Ibsen, Strindberg, Becque, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Hervieu, Gorky, Duse and D'Annunzio, Maeterlinck and Bernard Shaw by James Huneker

Although permanent residents in this country, little grebes leave, in the "rains," those tanks that do not afford plenty of cover, and betake themselves to a jhil where vegetation is luxuriant.
— from A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Douglas Dewar

Non se ne son le genti ancora accorte per la novella eta`, che' pur nove anni son queste rote intorno di lui torte; ma pria che 'l Guasco l'alto Arrigo inganni, parran faville de la sua virtute in non curar d'argento ne' d'affanni.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri

In the midst of our rhapsodies I became aware of a shrill voice at my feet, a persistent tug at my skirts, and reluctantly dropped my eyes on a comely little gypsy lass lying along a sunny ledge and imperiously demanding cinco centimos .
— from Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates