For his misfortune he had chosen a French translation of what he called "un drame de Williams Shackspire; le faux dieu," he further announced, "de ces sots païens, les Anglais."
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

ET UNGUELLÆ COCTÆ UT DIU DURENT PLACE THEM IN A PICKLE OF MUSTARD, VINEGAR, SALT AND HONEY, COVERING MEAT ENTIRELY, AND WHEN READY TO USE YOU’LL BE SURPRISED.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Hacia un lado del espacio libre que servía de salón, colocáronse una docena de muchachas guapísimas; eran las parejas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

ANT: Apparel, costume, uniform, dress, decoration, ornament.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Algunos discípulos no están satisfechos con un día de reposo.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Till man came up, did downe to man descend, This man, so great, that all that is, is his, 170 Oh what a trifle, and poore thing he is!
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

"Ever heard of Starlight?" cried Uncle Daniel down the room.
— from Enchantment by Harold MacGrath

For these reasons he made war on the Christians until Don Diego's father returned from Chile.
— from The War of Chupas by Pedro de Cieza de León

It is as variable in color as the cap, usually darkening downward in hues of brown.
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine

Derange , v. a. 1. Disorder, confuse, unsettle, disarrange, displace, turn topsy-turvy, put out of place.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

And who, when listening to the echoes of the chambers of the restless sea when deep calleth unto deep, does not hear amid them some weird and haunting refrain like Leland's sea song?
— from The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) by John M. (John Metcalf) Taylor