a la popa de queſto ſempre parlando con ſegni li suoi ne ſtauano in piedi atorno atorno cõ ſpade dague Lanze et targoni fece portare vno piato de carne de porco cõ vño vazo grande pienno de vino beueuamo adogni boconne
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

A group of men was dimly visible behind their chairs, wrapped in a haze of cigar smoke; and in the midst of them stood a lanky young man with red whiskers, talking loudly, with a lisp, in English.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

[Clark, February 20, 1805] Fort Mandan 20th February Wednesday 1805 a Butifull Day, visited by the Little raven verry early this morning I am informed of the Death of an old man whome
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

mákù = dakù (dialectal). — dyamù very big.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I haven’t drunk vodka but paraffin, Dashenka . . .”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Par contre, si à l'achat de son téléphone portable, on reçoit une bibliothèque de vingt bouquins gratuits à lire sur le téléphone et
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Those thou hast surpassed, as far as lay in you, by an unprecedented act of villany: I shall conquer them, as I did Veii, by Roman arts, by bravery, labour, and by arms."
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

During his stay at Abano in 1778, he wrote the Scrutinio del libro, eulogies of M. de Voltaire “by various hands.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The latter opinion prevailed at that time, and, as I must confess, I think with good reason; and the experience of the citizens confirmed it, many houses which had constant fires kept in the rooms having never been infected at all; and I must join my experience to it, for I found the keeping good fires kept our rooms sweet and wholesome, and I do verily believe made our whole family so, more than would otherwise have been.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

For the purposes of this account, however, the matter can be dismissed very briefly in this way.
— from The Fight for the Republic in China by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

Indicus, Deshayes , Voyage Belanger.
— from Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

One more expression of this belief, to increase the reader's familiarity with the notion of it:— “If this room is full of darkness for thousands of years, and you come in and begin to weep and wail, ‘Oh, the darkness,’ will the darkness vanish? Bring the light in, strike a match, and light comes in a moment.
— from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

People were in durance vile because they would not join the town guard or defence force.
— from Cecil Rhodes, Man and Empire-Maker by Radziwill, Catherine, Princess

Nor was this with Edwards a mere philosophical speculation; it was the high region in which he drew vital breath, the solid ground on which he walked.
— from Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards by Jonathan Edwards

"In der virst blace, dis be a reg'lar ruffian seddlement, vere id don'd vas healthy vor such ash
— from Fritz to the Front, or, the Ventriloquist Scamp-Hunter by Edward L. (Edward Lytton) Wheeler

The garments which the nobles and principals do vse, bee of silke of different colours, of the which they haue excellent good and verie perfite: the common and poore people doo apparell themselues with another kinde of silke more courser, and with linnen, serge, and cotton: of all the which there is great abundance.
— from The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume 1 (of 2) by Juan González de Mendoza

Dosia Van Bryck's shriek was ringing in Ballard's ears, and the look of frozen horror on Elsa's face was before his eyes, when he dashed down the steep trail at Blacklock's heels.
— from The King of Arcadia by Francis Lynde

Meyers was rich, and he had a fine house and a beautiful garden, and European delicacies, and books, and objets de vertu , but his setting was poisonous!
— from The Mountain of Fears by Henry C. (Henry Cottrell) Rowland