From the deeds and days of Columbus down to the present, and including the present—and especially the late secession war—when I con them, I feel, every leaf, like stopping to see if I have not made a mistake, and fall'n on the splendid figments of some dream.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

interclūdō , prohibeō ; drive away , remove , pellō , moveō , and their compounds; free , expediō , līberō , levō , solvō and exsolvō ; deprive , orbō , prīvō , spoliō , nūdō , fraudō .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Existen también propuestas que pretenden sustituir de forma entera la ley sobre el copyright con una ley estableciendo un contrato mucho más fuerte.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

It was a great croquet family, the Brentham family; even listless Lord St. Aldegonde would sometimes play, with a cigar never out of his mouth.
— from Lothair by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Till speedless trials prove the doubted elf As skilled in noise and sounds as Hodge himself; And, quite convinced with the proofs it gives, The boy drives on and fancies echo lives, Like some wood-fiend that frights benighted men, The troubling spirit of a robber's den.
— from Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by John Clare

All over the lagoon could be seen other boats, arriving: yachts, motor-launches, smart skiffs, skiffs that were not smart, and ancient tubs bound from every little lake settlement or lonely farm.
— from 'Possum by Mary Grant Bruce

For even leaders like Samuel Adams and John Adams and Patrick Henry did not know Washington’s ability as we have come to know it now.
— from Stories of Later American History by Wilbur F. (Wilbur Fisk) Gordy

It was a regular manifesto, and I felt exactly like Lord Salisbury.
— from A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') by Sara Jeannette Duncan

For baking tarts it is well to use (instead of tin patty-pans) small deep plates of china or white-ware, with broad flat edges, like little soup-plates.
— from Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book, 3rd ed. A Useful Guide for Large or Small Families, Containing Directions for Cooking, Preserving, Pickling... by Eliza Leslie