espalda f mostly pl back (above waist); de—— s from behind; por la—— in the back.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Some wonderfully heroic rescues were made at that fire by people living in the adjoining tenements.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

This apartment was the family bedroom, parlor, library and kitchen, all in one.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

2. Paul II. persecuted the Roman academy, which had been founded by Pomponius Lætus; and the principal members were accused of heresy, impiety, and paganism , (Tiraboschi, tom. vi.
— 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

17—. A copy of this work is in the collection formed by Prince Lucien Bonaparte.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Assisi: Upper Church of S. Francesco ) View larger image Anderson THE DEPOSITION FROM THE CROSS ( After the fresco by Pietro Laurati [Lorenzetti].
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Martial says of the PISTOR DULCIARIUS, “that hand will construct for you a thousand sweet figures of art; for it the frugal bee principally labors.”
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

This fault the Lacedaemonians did not fall into, for they made their children fierce by painful labour, as chiefly useful to inspire them with courage: though, as we have already often said, this is neither the only thing nor the principal thing necessary to attend to; and even with respect to this they may not thus attain their end; for we do not find either in other animals, or other nations, that courage necessarily attends the most cruel, but rather the milder, and those who have the dispositions of lions: for there are many people who are eager both to kill men and to devour human flesh, as the Achaeans and Heniochi in Pontus, and many others in Asia, some of whom are as bad, others worse than these, who indeed live by tyranny, but are men of no courage.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

Upon the defection of Mantinea, the rest of Peloponnese at once began to agitate the propriety of following her example, conceiving that the Mantineans not have changed sides without good reason; besides which they were angry with Lacedaemon among other reasons for having inserted in the treaty with Athens that it should be consistent with their oaths for both parties, Lacedaemonians and Athenians, to add to or take away from it according to their discretion.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

[2] with vegetables for braising, possibly larding.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Mr. Finck began to write at an early age, and he has published four books: Pebbles (Louisville, 1898), a little volume of epigrams; Webs (Louisville, 1900), being reveries and essays in miniature; Plays (Louisville, 1902), a group of allegorical dramas; and Musings and Pastels (Louisville, 1905).
— from Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 2 of 2 by John Wilson Townsend

I did full justice to the roots and fish, but prudently left the doubtful meat alone, and when the cravings of my hunger were appeased, I began to make advances to my hosts.
— from In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula by Clifford, Hugh Charles, Sir

William Fairfax and his son, Colonel George William Fairfax, both purchased lots at the first auction held on July 13, 1749.
— from Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Gay Montague Moore

[31] The whole of this argument is brilliantly set forth by Professor Lorentz in a lecture delivered to the Electrotechnikerverein at Berlin in December 1904, and reprinted, with additions, in the Archives Néerlandaises of 1906.—ED.
— from The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré

Shacks are cheek by jowl with stone mansions; dilapidated frame houses stand next door to smart stores with plate glass windows; electric cars rumble noisily along the streets; and motors, Fords, Buicks, Packards, line the pavement.
— from The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

965 Under James II., William, Anne, and the Georges, the policy of fostering the fisheries by protective legislation and by means of organised societies or associations was continued, with but little good result.
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

Ingenious theories have been set forth by physiologists, like Young, Helmholtz, Hering, and others, to explain the perception of colors by our eye, but the problem still awaits solution, and is not likely to be explained from that side, because it is rather psychical.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, June 1899 Volume LV by Various

The rest I have to chance, and, as I told you, I've so far been pretty lucky in repelling invaders.
— from A Little Bush Maid by Mary Grant Bruce