Cp, Cr, Jn ; CP: prove, show, testify, confess , Mt, VPs : exercise, perform, practise , B : (+) confirm , LL: (+) make celebrated .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

he then informed me that the 1st Cheif had dispatched some of his young men this morning to this camp requesting the Indians to meet them tomorrow and that himself and those with him would go on with them down the Missouri, and consequently leave me and my baggage on the mountain or thereabouts.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Después cruzó las manos, clavándose los dedos de la una en la otra con tanta fuerza, que casi se hizo sangre.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Till that moment, my father, who had a map of Sanson's, and a book of the post-roads before him, had kept his hand upon the head of his compasses, with one foot of them fixed upon Nevers, the last stage he had paid for—purposing to go on from that point with his journey and calculation, as soon as Obadiah quitted the room: but this second attack of Obadiah's, in opening the door and laying the whole country under water, was too much.—He let go his compasses—or rather with a mixed motion between accident and anger, he threw them upon the table; and then there was nothing for him to do, but to return back to Calais (like many others) as wise as he had set out.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

—Veo señalados en el mapa otros bosques, [22] circundando la meseta brasileña.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

They were clever letters; Margaret saw that in a twinkling; but she missed out of them all hearty and genial atmosphere.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The question was, whether in view of the long-standing trade custom, it was still proper to call an Abyssinian coffee (Longberry Mocha) Mocha.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

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— from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Sidewalk Café, Lisbon Mexico.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

a large (1) Island which appeared to be composed of Sand, Covered with Cotton wood close under the S. S. we landed at the Lower point of a large Island on the S. S. Called bon homme or Good man, here Capt Lewis & my Self went out a Short distance on the L. S. to See a Beave house, which was Said to be of Great hite & Situated in a Pond we could not find the house and returned after night Drewyer killed an Elk, & a Beaver.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Several flowers on the same plant were crossed with pollen from a distinct individual, and to obtain this the conjoined anthers of young flowers were roughly squeezed, and as it is naturally protruded very slowly by the growth of the pistil, it is probable that the pollen used by me was hardly mature, certainly less mature than that employed for self-fertilisation.
— from The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin

[1878.] On looking into my dear old Montaigne, I find a passage which may have rustled in Shakespeare’s head while doing Othello: it is about the pleasures of Military Life in the Chapter ‘De l’Expérience’ beginning ‘Il n’est occupation plaisante comme la militaire, etc.’
— from Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2 by Edward FitzGerald

Then Mr. Cassidy likewise mounted with his attention riveted elsewhere and backed off to the side of his companion.
— from Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up; Or, Bar-20 by Clarence Edward Mulford