M. Emanuel stood a little apart from these; his countenance and eyes expressed strong choler; he held forth his hand with his tribune gesture.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Encore, enclap, said, cried, clapped all, Ben Dollard, Lydia Douce, George Lidwell, Pat, Mina Kennedy, two gentlemen with two tankards, Cowley, first gent with tank and bronze Miss Douce and gold Miss Mina.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

—Con excepción de dos o tres,—donde, sin embargo, funciona alguna escuela profesional superior cuyos estudios son de carácter universitario—todas las repúblicas americanas tienen una o varias universidades nacionales, esto es, sostenidas con los fondos del gobierno federal y administradas por autoridades nombradas por él.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

77 7 fuera de su centro : the Academy defines estar en su centro as "to be comfortable and happy in a place or occupation."
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

punto , m. , point; a —— de , on the point of; —— menos , a trifle smaller; a buen —— , opportunely; al —— , at once; al —— que , at the time; por —— general , as a rule; a —— fijo , exactly; estar en su —— ( Culinary ), done; stitch; de —— , knitted or crocheted.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Eae etenim saepissime corpora in iis lavant, at mundant ab illuvie, perlotaque variis ornant odoribus ut recte unguentis oleant.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

Idcirco arma bipartata portavit scil' 't Sci Edwardi et domini marcialis angliæ cum duabus pennis strutionis erectis et super crestam leonem et duo parva scuta cum leonibus et utraq' parto predictorum armorum." Fig.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

— N. carrier, porter, bearer, tranter|, conveyer; cargador[obs3]; express, expressman; stevedore, coolie; conductor, locomotive, motor. beast, beast of burden, cattle, horse, nag, palfrey, Arab[obs3], blood horse, thoroughbred, galloway[obs3], charger, courser, racer, hunter, jument[obs3], pony, filly, colt, foal, barb, roan, jade, hack, bidet, pad, cob, tit, punch, roadster, goer[obs3]; racehorse, pack horse, draft horse, cart horse, dray horse, post horse; ketch; Shetland pony, shelty, sheltie; garran[obs3], garron[obs3]; jennet, genet[obs3], bayard[obs3], mare, stallion, gelding; bronco, broncho[obs3], cayuse [U.S.]; creature, critter [rural U.S.]; cow pony, mustang, Narraganset, waler[obs3]; stud.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Then they gave him largesse, and would have constrained him to turn and go with them to the host of Montmaure, where would be employment enough, since Count [316] Jaufre nor no one else had many jongleurs of such voice and skill!
— from The Fortunes of Garin by Mary Johnston

Or again, with her feet resting on the crescent moon, she rises to the highest heaven: Exaltata est super choros angelorum .
— from The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 by Anatole France

She couldn't have a good temper, with those scowling eyebrows: this was the opinion of several broad-faced, smiling girls, who thought, each in her own snug little mental sanctum, that, if, etc., etc., she could make him so happy!
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Elegant Extracts , subs. (Cambridge).—Students who, though “plucked,” were still given their degrees.
— from The Public School Word-book A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities by John Stephen Farmer

The greater devils, the altogether branded-with-the-brand-of-Cain that remained would one by one either enter some company's service, not too scrupulous as to antecedents, or die bloody and terrible deaths.
— from The Man Who Did the Right Thing: A Romance by Harry Johnston

She looked at him under the languid lids of her dreamy eyes: eyes so calm, so indifferent, so mysterious, so satirical in their survey of him as of all mankind.
— from Othmar by Ouida

'No civilized being has ever encountered such conditions before with only a tent of thin canvas to rely on for shelter.'
— from The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition by Charles Turley

Pepe Rey se encerró en su cuarto
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós