“Do you know me, Eva?” “Dear papa,” said the child, with a last effort, throwing her arms about his neck.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

[6340] enthusiasts, divinators, prophets, sectaries, and schismatics.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Now I begin to describe my course of life.—Alle 9 ore, qualche volta anche alle dieci mi svelgio, e poi andiamo fuor di casa, e poi pranziamo da un trattore, e dopo pranzo scriviamo, e poi sortiamo, e indi ceniamo, ma che cosa?
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Con la muerte del esposo de Perfecta se acabaron los sustos en la familia; pero empezó el gran conflicto.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Su mirar, aun acompañado de bondadosas palabras, ponía entre ella y las personas 30 214 extrañas la infranqueable distancia de un respeto receloso; mas para las de casa, es decir, para sus deudos, parciales y allegados, tenía una singular atracción.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

SYN: Vicegerent, lieutenant, representative, agent, commissioner, legate, envoy, delegate, proxy, substitute.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Et huc illuc oculos volvens, nunc situm urbis, commeatumque navium, nunc moenia clara pro spectans, miratur; populosque diversarum gentium, quasi fonte in uno e diversis partibus scaturiente unda, sic quoque militem or
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

ANT: Represent, exhibit, demonstrate, prove, substantiate, verify, depict.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

39 Utque semel patuit monstris iter, omnia tempus nacta suum properant: nasci tum decolor imber infantumque novi vultus et dissona partu semina, tum lapidum fletus armentaque vulgo ausa loqui mediisque ferae se credere muris; tum vates sine more rapi lymphataque passim 45 [187] fountain-head of the evil may be dried up.
— from Claudian, volume 1 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

"We'll have the banns published and everything done proper," she said.
— from Greatheart by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

It is a dreadful scourge in many hospitals, more especially during particular seasons of the year—during hot, damp weather, and in spring and autumn, attacking the patients indiscriminately.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

The velvet horns on either side of a hat, the steeple-like central adornments that were once much in favor, and the Mercury wings that ornament the coiffure for evening dress, produce some startling, disagreeable, and amusing effects not altogether uninteresting to consider.
— from What Dress Makes of Us by Dorothy Quigley

Cuando estuvo fuera, dando gracias a Dios de haber escapado, decía para sí:—Ese hombre es malo como un demonio; no quiero tener negocios con él.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

I thought you would spend the evening in an entirely different place," said Clarence, significantly.
— from A Boy's Fortune; Or, The Strange Adventures of Ben Baker by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Par J. B. Douville, Secrétaire de la Société de Géographic de Paris pour l'année 1832, etmembre de plusieurs Sociétés savantes françoises et étrangères.
— from Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

"It is now fourteen years," wrote Egidio da Porta, "since I, under the impulse of a certain religious feeling, but not according to knowledge, forsook my parents and assumed the black cowl.
— from The Duchess of Trajetto by Anne Manning

It was decided that the task of continuing the sweeping operations in the south-eastern corner of the Free State should be assigned to General Sir Leslie Rundle, and to this end he was to be left at Thabanchu in command of the Eighth Division, plus some 800 Imperial Yeomanry under General Brabazon, while Generals French and Hamilton proceeded north.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 5 (of 8) From the Disaster at Koorn Spruit to Lord Roberts's Entry into Pretoria by Louis Creswicke