[powered construction vehicles] tractor, steamshovel, backhoe, fork lift, earth mover, dump truck, bulldozer, grader, caterpillar, trench digger, steamroller; pile driver; crane, wrecking crane.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Each aunt, each cousin, hath her speculation; Nay, married dames will now and then discover Such pure disinterestedness of passion, I 've known them court an heiress for their lover. 'Tantaene!'
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

tan grotesco a los impíos ojos de usted, salió de esta casa, y que los pantalones del Niño obra son juntamente de la maravillosa aguja y de la acendrada piedad de su prima de usted, Rosarito, que nos está oyendo.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Her own little room too, where she had so often knelt down and prayed at night—prayed for the time which she hoped was dawning now—the little room where she had slept so peacefully, and dreamed such pleasant dreams!
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Debat , sb. strife, discord, C2; debate , S3, P; debaat , C3.—AF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

"Not at all, dear sir, pray don't be alarmed; we are merely desirous of making you acquainted with the most innocent, the least dangerous sport of the chasse à l'affût ," and having convinced him, we started.
— from Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches by Henri de Crignelle

House of Beaumarchais Searched—The 10th of August—Letter to his Family in Havre—Letter of Eugénie to her Father—Commissioned to Buy Guns for the Government—Goes to Holland as Agent of Comité de Salut Public —Declared an Emigré—Confiscation of his Goods—Imprisonment of his Family—The Ninth Thermidor Comes to Save Them—Life During the Terror—Julie again in Evidence—Beaumarchais’s Name Erased From List of Emigrés—Returns to France.
— from Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence, Vol. 2 by Elizabeth Sarah Kite

Guiart furnishes another:— "Renaut, jadis quens de Bouloingne, Qui mort ne mehaing ne resoingne, Tant est plain de grant hardement, Ot fait dès le commencement De serjanz plains de grant prouece Une closture en réondèce, [Pg 224] Ou, en reposant, s'aaisoit Toutes les fois qu'il li plaisoit; Et r'issoit de leanz souvent Quant il avoit pris air ou vent."— Sub an. 1214.
— from Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Thirteenth Century by John Hewitt

At rex postero die Asparem Jugurthae legatum appellat dicitque sibi per Dabarem ex Sulla cognitum, posse condicionibus bellum poni; [627] quamobrem regis sui sententiam exquireret.
— from C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino by Sallust

"Le Problème du Style." "Physique de l'Amour."
— from Instigations Together with An Essay on the Chinese Written Character by Ezra Pound

Then she delicately set before him the treatment with which of late he had afflicted her; she blamed and upbraided herself; confessed that she had but too well deserved such punishment; described with the greatest candor what she called her former situation; adding, that she would despise herself, if she were not capable of altering, and making herself worthy of his friendship.
— from Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe