SYN: Pallid, wan, faint, dim, undefined, etiolated, sallow, cadaverous.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Entiéndelo bien; hay que defenderse de todos ellos, porque todos son uno, y uno es todos; hay que atacarles de 15 común, y no con palizas al volver de una esquina, sino como atacaban
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

If the reader wants a hard puzzle, let him try to arrange eight married couples (in four courts on seven days) under exactly similar conditions.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

I was sorry at the time to hear this; but whoever quits the creeks of private connections, and fairly gets into the great ocean of London, will, by imperceptible degrees, unavoidably experience such cessations of acquaintance.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

M. Lesson, examinando una, muerta en los alrededores de Montevideo, la encontró de una extraordinaria semejanza con la especie de Cuba y de los Estados Unidos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Væ nobis si quando provocati sancti angeli peccatis et negligentiis, indignos nos judicaverint præsentia et visitatione sua, &c. Cavenda est nobis eorum offensa, et in his maxime exercendum, quibus eos novimus oblectari: hæc autem placent eis quæ in nobis invenire delectat, ut est sobrietas, castitas, &c.
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter

This was an extremely small, yellow, dried up, energetic Spanish captain, with a long red beard, Hernan Tello de Porto Carrero by came, governor of the neighbouring city of Dourlens, who had conceived this plan for obtaining possession of Amiens.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Among ten thousand houses a certain number will be destroyed by fire every year, provided those houses are widely distributed under essentially similar conditions.
— from Rural Wealth and Welfare: Economic Principles Illustrated and Applied in Farm Life by Geo. T. (George Thompson) Fairchild

My answer, like my foregoing statement of my own form of idealism, depends upon extremely simple considerations.
— from The Sources of Religious Insight by Josiah Royce

This perhaps proved to be the wisest plan, for, after another vigorous thump at the door, Uncle Ellis suddenly changed his policy.
— from Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 by Various