= KEY: Spy \v.\. SYN: See, espy, discern, discover, explore, view, inspect.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

A short but charming treasury of detached erotic verses is the Çṛingāra-tilaka , which tradition attributes [ 342 ] to Kālidāsa.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

This last betrayed that manner which denotes Excessive vanity in man or brute.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Si fuese Dios en verdad, If in truth it were the deity, a más distancia pondría he would give a greater space su aviso y mi eternidad.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

That evening we, that is, Mitford, Noel and I, devoted to a dîner en ville in the Japanese fashion at a sort of "Trois frères" called Tokaku, and about half-past six we started forth.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

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— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Su segunda novela, Sanguine sur toile (Sanguínea sobre la Red) está disponible en versión impresa en la editorial Le Choucas (publicada en 1999)
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

As Agrippa's dog had a devil tied to his collar; some think that Paracelsus (or else Erastus belies him) had one confined to his sword pummel; others wear them in rings, &c. Jannes and Jambres did many things of old by their help; Simon Magus, Cinops, Apollonius Tianeus, Jamblichus, and Tritemius of late, that showed Maximilian the emperor his wife, after she was dead; Et verrucam in collo ejus (saith [1189] Godolman) so much as the wart in her neck.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Soon after there was a monument put over his grave, with an inscription, in which it is said he was, Antiquâ, eáque regia Saxonium apud Danmonios in agro Devoniensi, prosapia oriundus, That he was, Natalium Splendore illustris, pietate, Doctrina, et virtutibus illustrior, &c.
— from The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II. by Theophilus Cibber

We have three modes of hunting Deer, each varying in some slight degree in the different States and districts.
— from Audubon and His Journals, Volume 2 (of 2) by John James Audubon

Death, ever victorious, is again a victor.
— from Life of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman. Late Retired General. U. S. A. by Willis Fletcher Johnson

We have the characteristics of Perceval postulated of Lancelot; we have correspondence in details, even verbal identity; further, the prose Lancelot , as we shall see, presents other points of contact with Wolfram's poem
— from The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac Studies upon its Origin, Development, and Position in the Arthurian Romantic Cycle by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston

When she had said this, the queen sat down, with fire still in her eyes, and heaving breast; all looked at her with veneration, and her chancellor, Vydjga, began to speak with a resonant voice,— "Nulla sors longa est, dolor et voluptas, Invicens cedunt.
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

n], just as they succeed in pronouncing [d e vɪl] instead of [d e vəl], thus avoiding all offence; for [d e vəl] is said by common people, but [d e vɪl] only by the polite.
— from The Sounds of Spoken English: A Manual of Ear Training for English Students (4th edition) by Walter Ripman

I have long beheld with regret and astonishment, the efforts that have been made by a certain class of writers, to disseminate erroneous views in the Northern section of the United States, with regard to Southern slavery.
— from A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, An Essay on Slavery by A. Woodward

The surface was composed of dark earth varying in thickness from a few inches to a foot, on which rested large blocks of limestone, fallen from the roof.
— from Cave Hunting Researches on the evidence of caves respecting the early inhabitants of Europe by William Boyd Dawkins