encubrir t cover up, screen; —ierto covert.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The only reprint of the Minor Poems in the old spelling, so far as I know, is the one edited by Mitford, but that followed the edition of 1673, which is comparatively uninteresting since it could not have had Milton's oversight as it passed through the press.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

A fines de abril 1998 creé un sitio Internet con un concepto simple pero con un objetivo ambicioso: por una parte ser una fuente de información mayor sobre la cultura haitiana, por otra, oponerse a imágenes continualmente negativas que los medias tradicionales dan de Haití.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

accused &c.v.; suspected; under suspicion, under a cloud, under surveillance; in custody, in detention; in the lockup, in the watch house, in the house of detention.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

He gave up body and soul to the spread of Christianity in a heathen land, recalling to my mind the early Jesuits, Francis Xavier, Lucas Caballero and Cipriano Baraza, who penetrated pathless forests and crossed unknown seas in conformity with the requirements of their sacred mission.
— from As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Marian Gouverneur

I. Dissolve with the assistance of heat 60 parts of borax in 420 parts of water, add 480 parts of pale yellow dextrine and 50 parts of glucose, and heat carefully, stirring constantly until solution is complete, replacing the water lost by evaporation.
— from Glue, Gelatine, Animal Charcoal, Phosphorous, Cements, Pastes and Mucilages by F. (Ferdinand) Dawidowsky

[77] The coracles used still in Caermarthenshire are of oval form, five feet and a-half long, by four feet and a-half broad; the hides forming the skin of the skiff are pitched.
— from The Lake Dwellings of Ireland Or ancient lacustrine habitations of Erin, commonly called crannogs. by W. G. (William Gregory) Wood-Martin

; Channing, United States , I. chs.
— from The Colonies, 1492-1750 by Reuben Gold Thwaites

They are found in crevices, under stones, in caves, and in rotten wood.
— from Santo Domingo: A Country with a Future by Otto Schoenrich

I would love to have told him how very, very glad I was that he was better, but I choked up so I couldn't get out a word.
— from We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses by Barbara Yechton

Counters using sodium iodide crystals intercept, and therefore count, a much smaller fraction of the gammas emitted by the subject’s body than liquid systems, but they also pick up a smaller amount of background.
— from Whole Body Counters by F. W. (Frederick W.) Lengemann

But, though the monstrous scheme cannot ultimately succeed, it can and will produce untold evils to human society.
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

Morville church has the long chancel usually seen in collegiate foundations, the semi-headed chancel arch being curiously depressed, and having rudely sculptured capitals, and billet mouldings.
— from Nooks and Corners of Shropshire by H. Thornhill (Henry Thornhill) Timmins