remoquete m blow ( fig. slap) in the face; sarcasm; decir el—— call one names ( etc. ) to his face.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The passionate declamations of the Catholics, the sole historians of this persecution, cannot afford any distinct series of causes and events; any impartial view of the characters, or counsels; but the most remarkable circumstances that deserve either credit or notice, may be referred to the following heads;
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Is it right to do evil, Crito, or not?
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

Dixit etiam quod Baatu quæsiuerat ab eo multa de nobis, et quod ipse dixerat ei conditiones ordinis nostri.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 02 by Richard Hakluyt

To him the world has been chiefly indebted for corrections and elucidations of the texts of Roman authors, which, from a variety of causes, were, when first discovered, either corrupt, or nearly illegible.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. II by John Colin Dunlop

Three detachments, each consisting of nine men and an officer, were commanded to keep guard, and he gave orders to fire from the pickets the instant an Indian attempted to climb over.
— from Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 2 by Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von

These cavern temples are scattered over both sides of a high rocky hill at many different elevations, consisting of no less than six stories or tiers of caverns, of various sizes and forms, all excavated out of the rocky surface of the mountain and connected with each other by narrow stone steps cut in the rock.
— from Life and Travel in India Being Recollections of a Journey Before the Days of Railroads by Anna Harriette Leonowens

From Tristan's voyage of 1441 dates the slave trade, which now gave a sinister stimulus to the process of discovery; every cargo of negroes being eagerly bought for the cheap cultivation of the Moorish lands, still poorly populated under the feudal regimen.
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

Albini sans permission, permet tout ou moins de supposer, dans l’intérêt du prévenu, que réellement il n’a fait que suivre les instructions de ses Chefs; Que cependant, pour les raisons déjà exposées, ces ordres ne pourraient en aucun cas justifier ou excuser le prévenu; Qu’on ne pourrait pas même le considérer comme un instrument passif et inconscient entre les mains de ses Chefs, puisque, quoique noir, il a une certaine culture d’esprit et appartient à un pays déjà en partie civilisé; Qu’il devait bien savoir que tuer est un crime; Qu’il a agit d’ailleurs aussi, dans son intérêt particulier, puisqu’il était payé en proportion
— from Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo [and Further Correspondence] by Roger Casement