q̃ era rimaſto cõ le femine ꝓ che era andato a la caza ſubito
— 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

20 Bartolomé Acero fué el que quemó el registro civil de Lugarnoble, llevándose en rehenes
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

My leisure then, and my old age, would have been devoted, in company with the Empress and during the royal apprenticeship of my son, to leisurely visiting, with our own horses and like a true country couple, every corner of the Empire, receiving complaints, redressing wrongs, and scattering public buildings and benefactions on all sides and everywhere.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

One card was bordered and engraved in pink, and the other bordered and engraved in blue, and the address on each read " Chez Maman ."
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

ad eās rēs cōnficiendās Orgetorīx dēligitur. is sibī̆ lēgātiōnem suscēpit , 1, 2, 5, they thought they had a narrow territory; so they resolved in consequence to make such preparations as were necessary for a move.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Psychologists have discussed perception ad nauseam and become horribly entangled in a combined idealism and physiology; for they must perforce approach the subject from the side of matter, since all science and all evidence is external; nor could they ever reach consciousness at all if they did not observe its occasions and then interpret those occasions dramatically.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

6.21; to exact, require, collect tribute, money lent, &c. Lu. 3.13; 19.23.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

It was an early autumn evening, rather chilly.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Right as ninepence , or NICE AS NINEPENCE (possible corruption of NINE-PINS ), quite right, exactly right, comfortable.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

There was irresistible persuasion in the glitter of their spears; besides it was matter of universal knowledge that the steel panoply of each rider concealed a mercenary foreigner who was never so happy as when riding over a Greek.
— from The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell — Volume 01 by Lew Wallace

Light hair, blue eyes, and short figures got only casual inspection: but any tall girl with dark hair and eyes endured rather close scrutiny that morning.
— from The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter

Imagine the guffaws when a man told his companions that he had been eating red currant jelly with jugged hare!
— from Faces in the Fire, and Other Fancies by Frank Boreham

E rnest Carrington sat in the retirement of his little study, and gave himself up to thought.
— from The Fortunes of the Colville Family; or, A Cloud with its Silver Lining by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley

Some charities were mentioned, but they were perfunctory, apparently, and I don't believe, from the accounts, that he ever really INTERESTED himself in any one—that he ever really cared for—any one."
— from Oh, Money! Money! A Novel by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

John had read of the German march on Paris, nearly a half-century before, how everything had been made complete by the genius of Bismarck and von Moltke, how the ready had sprung upon and crushed the unready, but the present swoop of the imperial eagle seemed far more vast and terrible than the earlier rush could have been.
— from The Forest of Swords: A Story of Paris and the Marne by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Ghana degree of risk: very high food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever vectorborne diseases: malaria water contact disease: schistosomiasis respiratory disease: meningococcal meningitis animal contact disease: rabies note: highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in this country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds (2009)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[166] Adam Smith, following Petty's lead, says: "The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
— from Socialism: A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by John Spargo

However, he asked a few further questions, eliciting the fact that the stranger had already visited the ship with letters from the eminently respectable consignees at St. Kentigern, and contented himself with lingering near them.
— from The Bell-Ringer of Angel's, and Other Stories by Bret Harte