And those who are to have this joint property in them are Hipparchus, Neleus, Strato, Callinus, Demotimus, Demaratus, Callisthenes, Melantes, Pancreon, [201] and Nicippus.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

SYN: Daze, dazzle, confound, mystify, puzzle, embarrass, astonish, perplex, confuse, mislead.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Io feci il padre e 'l figlio in se' ribelli: Achitofel non fe' piu` d'Absalone e di David coi malvagi punzelli.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Lal de daudle, &c. My 'prenticeship I past where my leader breath'd his last, When the bloody die was cast on the heights of Abram: and I served out my trade when the gallant game was play'd, And the Morro low was laid at the sound of the drum.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

[44] las agencias marítimas venden pasajes para los vapores; las de colocaciones proporcionan sirvientes, empleados, operarios y peones; las de mensajeros ponen a la disposición del cliente mandaderos para transmitir recados; las agencias de transportes realizan los servicios que en Norte América hacen los expresos; las de mudanza se encargan de transportar muebles cuando se cambia de domicilio; las agencias de alquileres procuran listas de casas desocupadas; las agencias o casas de cambio venden y compran moneda extranjera.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

[Pg 104] cry of “Desdemona, Desdemona dead!” contains more poignancy of suffering than all the outbursts of Troilus put together.
— from Chaucer and His Times by Grace E. (Grace Eleanor) Hadow

aux autorités militaires Russes et aux dzian-dziuns de s’entendre en vue de fixer le nombre et de déterminer les lieux de cantonnement des troupes Chinoises en Mandchourie tant que les troupes Russes n’auront pas été retirées; le Gouvernement Chinois s’engage en outre à ne pas former d’autres troupes en sus du nombre determiné de cette manière par
— from The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues by Kan'ichi Asakawa

Dr. Donald C. Macleod, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, mounted the rostrum usually occupied by the leader of the orchestra, and announced that the nature of the performance, the sacredness of the play, and the character of the audience gave to the play the significance of a tremendous sermon in behalf of mankind, and that as such it was eminently fitting that a divine blessing be invoked.
— from Damaged Goods The great play "Les avariés" by Brieux, novelized with the approval of the author by Eugène Brieux

Ditemi dunque, cara mia primizia, quai fuor li vostri antichi e quai fuor li anni che si segnaro in vostra puerizia; ditemi de l'ovil di San Giovanni quanto era allora, e chi eran le genti tra esso degne di piu` alti scanni>>.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri

In his inaugural dissertation De Continuationibus Membranarum, published at Leiden in 1763, this author, after some preliminary observations on membranes in general and their structure, and an exposition of that of the skin, traces its transition into the mucous membranes and their several divisions.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg