The Frog seemed to relish his dinner very much, but every bit that the King's daughter ate nearly choked her, till at last the Frog said, "I have satisfied my hunger, and feel very tired; wilt thou carry me upstairs now into thy chamber, and make thy bed ready that we may sleep together?"
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

—Mujer—dijo al fin D. Inocencio,—me has quitado diez años de vida; me has abrasado la sangre; me has vuelto loco...
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

—Tan así es [15] que, en su parte austral, Chile cuenta con más de veinte millones de hectáreas de bosques.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Or a circumlocution, such as virtūte , beneficiō , benignitāte , or especially operā , with a genitive or possessive; as, deūm virtūte multa bona bene parta habēmus , Pl. Tri. 346, thanks to the gods, we’ve many a pretty penny prettily put by .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

This do vex me to see how foolish our Protestant Divines are, while the Papists do make it the duty of Confessor to be secret, or else nobody would confess their sins to them.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

At noon we sent for a dinner, and upon the head of a barrel dined very merrily, and to work again.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Adj. differing &c. v.; different, diverse, heterogeneous, multifarious, polyglot; distinguishable, dissimilar; varied, modified; diversified, various, divers, all manner of, all kinds of; variform &c. 81[obs3]; daedal[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

emence quantities of beaver on this Fork quit down, and their dams very much impeed the navigation of it from the 3 forks down, tho I beleive it practicable for Small Canoes by unloading at a fiew of the worst of those dams.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Double vowels must be pronounced double, as in Méiji (m[=a]-[=e]-j[=e]); those which are long are marked, as in [=o] or [=u]; i before o or u is short.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Qual savesse qual era la pastura del viso mio ne l'aspetto beato quand'io mi trasmutai ad altra cura, conoscerebbe quanto m'era a grato ubidire a la mia celeste scorta, contrapesando l'un con l'altro lato.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri

And thus did verie manie in like sort with the hart (as I doo read) but this I thinke was verie long agone, when men were farre higher and swifter than they are now: and yet I denie not, but rather grant willinglie that the hunting of the red deere is a right princelie pastime.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

My name was known to those with him, and any trouble with the Hôtel de Ville meant hopeless disaster.
— from The Chevalier d'Auriac by S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats

There are six ceremonies which constitute a regular marriage, though their details vary much in different parts of the Empire:
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams

[64] But while interest in the past, far more widespread than in most other countries, has done very much to bring objects of interest to the National Museum, England has been incomparably more happy than Denmark in preserving for generations yet to come the buildings of mediæval and Renaissance days (p. 125 ).
— from Capitals of the Northlands: Tales of Ten Cities by Ian C. Hannah

The more or less long neck, which may assume the form of an S, deviates very much from the short stiff neck of reptiles, and is quite bird-like, the neck-vertebræ of which those of the Pterodactyle closely resemble in shape; while their constant number of seven reminds us of mammals and crocodiles.
— from The Ornithosauria An elementary study of the bones of Pterodactyles made from fossil remains found in the Cambridge Upper Greensand, and arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge by H. G. (Harry Govier) Seeley

The palms were larger than I remembered them, and the statues had grown up and seemed to have had large families since my day; but the lovely sea was the same, with all the mural decorations of the skyey horizons beyond, dim precipices and dreamy island tops, and the dozing Vesuvius mistakable for any of them.
— from Roman Holidays, and Others by William Dean Howells

In a lower latitude, beyond the line of peat formation, this will have some influence to increase the depth and richness of the vegetable mould; but, in Scotland, where cold till bottom prevails, more injury will result from forest tending to throw the debri of vegetation into combinations unfavourable to the nourishment of plants (such as peat {321} and compounds in which iron forms a part), than advantage, from the dead vegetable matter not being so much dissipated by aration and exposure to the sun.
— from On Naval Timber and Arboriculture With Critical Notes on Authors who have Recently Treated the Subject of Planting by Patrick Matthew