These five then, were the machines which claimed most attention in 1909, although many others,—as for instance the R. E. P. monoplane, built by M. Esnault-Pelterie, and the Breguet biplane—were flown at the famous meeting.
— from The Romance of Aircraft by Laurence Yard Smith

Mon lieutenant who invited me warned me to eat a light breakfast in order to leave room for adequate material appreciation of the hospitality of his own battalion, in which he had fought in the ranks earning promotion and his croix de guerre in a way that was more gratifying to him than the possession of a fortune, chateaux and high-powered cars.
— from My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer

8 The claim put forth in the “Revista Euskara,” p. 61, April, 1878, may be fully conceded:—” Si; éste es el carácter distintivo de la poesía euskara; su exquisita moralidad.
— from Basque Legends; With an Essay on the Basque Language by Wentworth Webster

It was a tiny girl child, black of hue as both her doting parents, and endowed with the name of her sire, somewhat feminized for her fitting into the rather euphonious Pompeylou.
— from Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches by Ruth McEnery Stuart

He went to Philadelphia, found his friends again, who had known his family in the Rhine, either personally or by reputation, obtained their credit assistance and with it bought and carried south such wares as Talbot County had not before known, with the result that the business, now fairly launched, was carried to new reaches of success.
— from The Romance of a Great Store by Edward Hungerford

They translate, indeed, but without understanding; as when, for instance, they render “ ex parte virginis ,” by “the departure of the Virgin.”
— from La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet

iv The ode falls into two roughly equal parts.
— from A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq. by Thomas Morrison

In volcanic regions there are fissures in the rocks exhaling pestiferous emanations; these are the spiracula, the breathing-holes, of the dragon within.
— from Old Calabria by Norman Douglas