Heaven forbid that I should disparage my dear child, but he has—no deportment."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

débat , m. , différend, contestation.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

A le quai poi se tu vorrai salire, anima fia a cio` piu` di me degna: con lei ti lascero` nel mio partire; che' quello imperador che
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Deyen , v. to die, S2, PP; deȝen , MD, S2; deghe , S2; deie , S; dey , S3; dye , PP; diȝe , PP; dyȝe , S2, PP; de , S3; deide , pt. s. , S, S2; deiȝede , MD; deyde , C2; deid , S2; deit , S3; dede , pl. , S3; deyed , pp. , C2.—Icel. deyja : OS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

"For eleven years now I have been your Kriya Yoga disciple," Mr. Dickinson continued.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

En un radio de ochenta metros en esa zona, se han contado cuarenta variedades de árboles, tanto de los que dan maderas de construcción
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Mucho lo pensó el tío Juan Gómez antes de pagar un chocolate tan caro (que resultaba a diez mil doscientos cuarenta 10 reales la libra); pero tenía tal seguridad en lo del tesoro
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

The authors regard these results as indicating a sort of washing out of “dead material” during convalescence—of material which had gathered during the florid stage of the disease.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Si vemos a las empresas de medios de comunicación tratar de bloquear todo lo que pueden, no me sorprende que algunos usuarios reaccionen poniendo en línea todo lo que pueden.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Discomfiture , sb. defeat, MD; disconfiture , C.—AF. descumfiture , desconfiture .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Nine ships I fitted out and the host was gathered quickly; and then for six days my dear company feasted, and I gave them many victims that they might sacrifice to the gods and prepare a feast for themselves.
— from The Odyssey of Homer, Done into English Prose by Homer

Dey make de coffin outter pine boards."
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

But yo' dun me dutty, Cap.'
— from Taking Chances by Clarence Louis Cullen

During M. de Chaumont's voyage, when he went as Louis XIV.'s ambassador to Siam, the pilots, trusting to their charts, were mistaken in their calculations, and both in going and in returning went a good deal further than they imagined.
— from Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Jules Verne

[Goran SVILANOVIC]; Coalition Sandzak [Rasim LJAJIC]; Coalition Sumadija [Branislav KOVACEVIC]; Democratic Alternative of DA [Nebojsa COVIC]; Democratic Center or DC [Dragoljub MICUNOVIC]; Democratic Christian Party of Serbia of DHSS
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The dowager, Marquise de Caron, had established herself at Geneva for the season, accompanied by her daughter, the present Marquise, whose engagement to Monsieur Loris Dumaresque had just been announced.
— from The Bondwoman by Marah Ellis Ryan

The Ethiopian Region,'' Geog. Journal, March 1896; H. A. Bryden and others, Great and Small Game of Africa (1899); F. C. Selous, African Nature Notes and Reminiscences (1908); E. N. Buxton, Two African Trips: with Notes and Suggestions on Big-Game Preservation in Africa (1902) (contains photographs of living animals); G. Schillings, With Flash-light and Rifle in Equatorial East Africa (1906); Idem, In Wildest Africa (1907) (striking collection of photographs of living wild animals); Exploration scientifique de l'Algerie: Histoire naturelle, 14 vols. and 4 atlases, Paris (1846-1850); Annales du Musee du Congo: Botanique, Zoologie (Brussels, 1898, &c.).
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg