la` venne uscir li orecchi de le gote scempie; cio` che non corse in dietro e si ritenne di quel soverchio, fe' naso a la faccia e le labbra ingrosso` quanto convenne.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

He was very sensible that all political writers upon the subject had unanimously agreed and lamented, from the beginning of Queen Elizabeth ’s reign down to his own time, that the current of men and money towards the metropolis, upon one frivolous errand or another,—set in so strong,—as to become dangerous to our civil rights,—though, by the bye,——a current was not the image he took most delight in,—a distemper was here his favourite metaphor, and he would run it down into a perfect allegory, by maintaining it was identically the same in the body national as in the body natural, where the blood and spirits were driven up into the head faster than they could find their ways down;——a stoppage of circulation must ensue, which was death in both cases.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Mettre en --s , rompre, déchirer.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Los españoles se reían de aquellos disparates, y le llamaban franchute , [60-6] didon y otras cosas.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

¿Sabe usted si Francisco Acero dió palabra al gobernador de no molestar a los pobres soldaditos en sus robos de doncellas, en sus irreligiosidades, en sus sacrilegios, en sus infames felonías?
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

This time Loki, still disguised as a gadfly, stung the dwarf on his cheek; but in spite of the pain Brock worked on, and when Sindri returned, he triumphantly drew out of the flames the magic ring Draupnir, the emblem of fertility, from which eight similar rings dropped every ninth night.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

REYNANDO EN ESPANA EL SEN R DON FERNANDO SEXTO Y SIENDO GOV OR Y CAP N
— from Petals Plucked from Sunny Climes by A. M. (Abbie M.) Brooks

[549] In 1673, July, we read in the Mercure :—"On fait aussi des dentelles à grandes brides, comme aux points de fil sans raiseau, et des dentelles d'Espagne avec des brides claires sans picots; et l'on fait aux nouveaux points de France des brides qui en sont remplies d'un nombre infini."
— from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

A noble mansion now crowns the hill with every ornamental appurtenance, while the flats on each side, regularly divided, wave in golden plenty, or are clothed in living green, on which hundreds of cattle graze, or repose beneath a few of the old trees which are yet standing.
— from The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. I., No. 8, April, 1835 by Various

“Perhaps I have an X-ray eye,” she replied demurely.
— from Webster—Man's Man by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

It is this governor who erected the tablet over its main entrance, with the Spanish coat of arms sculptured in alto relievo , with the following inscription beneath:— REYNANDO EN ESPANA EL SEN R DON FERNANDO SEXTO Y SIENDO GOV OR Y CAP N
— from The Spaniards in Florida Comprising the Notable Settlement of the Huguenots in 1564, and the History and Antiquities of St. Augustine, Founded A.D. 1565 by George R. (George Rainsford) Fairbanks

Quand elle parut au salon, tous les yeux se fixèrent sur elle et se remplirent de larmes.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 139, June 26, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various