Monseignour Nicolas et Monseignour Mafé , à l'ore quand Alau , frère charnel dou Grant Sire Cublay , ala en ost seur Baudas , et print le Calife et sa maistre cité, atout son vaste tresor d'or et d'argent, et l'amère parolle que dist ledit Alau au Calife, com l'a escripte li Maistres Rusticiens ou chief de cestui livre.[12] "Car sachiés tout voirement que Messires Marc moult se deleitoit à faire appert combien sont pareilles au font les condicions des diverses regions dou monde, et soloit-il clorre son discours si disant en son language de Venisse: 'Sto mondo xe fato tondo , com uzoit dire mes oncles Mafés.'
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Her hair was dressed like a man’s; the front locks came down her cheeks, and the black hair, fastened with a knot of blue ribbon, reached the bend of her legs; her form was that of Antinous; her clothes alone, being cut in the French style, prevented the illusion from being complete.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Ante todo, la disposición geográfica del territorio americano que va desde el Río Grande a la Tierra del Fuego, no permite fácilmente la cohesión de muchos millones de hombres en una misma comunidad de ideales sociales, artísticos, religiosos; el hombre es hijo de las condiciones climatéricas en que vive, y a lo largo de [1] la América latina hay individuos que se tuestan doce meses al sol, y otros que tiritan de frío, y hay recios escaladores de montañas y míseros palúdicos de los pantanos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Les historiens, les formules, les codes des différens peuples barbares, tous les monumens qui nous restent, sont unanimes.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Sin embargo, todo dependerá de la amplidud del fenómeno llamado "convergencia" de los medias y de una posible alza de los costos de producción si tenemos que ofrecer audio y video para mantenernos competitivos.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Cuál fue la causa de la muerte del tío Macario?
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Europa y Asia: un vínculo de amistad y de recíproco entendimiento, que facilitó la compenetración de dos civilizaciones.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

His love for Lady Constance de Grey had run on like a brook in the summer time, which flows sweet, tranquil, and scarcely perceptible, till the first rains that gather in the mountains swell it to a torrent that sweeps away all before it.
— from Darnley; or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

{21} Curious little poems are found in Latin and other languages, making a dialogue of the cries of animals at the news of Christ's birth. {22} The following French example is fairly typical:— “Comme les bestes autrefois Parloient mieux latin que françois, Le coq, de loin voyant le fait, S’écria:
— from Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

Meanwhile General Ironside hurried out an American company from Archangel together with an Archangel Regiment Company and eighty Yorks and some of the French Legion Courier du Bois to make an attack on the Reds at the same time on their other flank.
— from The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Joel R. (Joel Roscoe) Moore

But against this indefinite general rusting of mind machinery in the soldier-workman's life away from the fighting line certain definite considerations must be set.
— from Another Sheaf by John Galsworthy

Here was a wife and four little children depending upon this man for their lives; what would become of his family if justice was meted out to him?
— from The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker Ventures and adventures; sixty-three years of pioneer life in the old Oregon country; an account of the author's trip across the plains with an ox team; return trip, 1906-7; his cruise on Puget Sound, 1853; trip through the Natchess pass, 1854; over the Chilcoot pass; flat-boating on the Yukon, 1898. The Oregon trail. by Ezra Meeker

Ce Que Disent Nos Morts Il n'est pas besoin de rappeler le souvenir de ceux qui nous furent chers et ne sont plus, ŕ notre peuple qui passe, non sans raison, pour célébrer avec ferveur le culte des morts.
— from Defenders of Democracy Contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy by Militia of Mercy (U.S.). Gift Book Committee

65 d'Auvergne, Philippe (see Bouillon) d'Avaray, Antoine Louis Frédéric de Bésiade, Comte, later Duc, ii. 301 ; iv. 8-9 d'Avaray, Claude Antoine de Bésiade, Duc, ii. 301 d'Avaray, née de Mailly, Duchesse, ii. 301 Avenel, Denis Louis Martial, v. 95 Azara, José Nicola de, ii. 230 B Bacciochi, later Prince of Lucca and Piombino, Félix Pascal Prince, ii. 166 Bacciochi, Élisa Bonaparte, Princess (see Élisa Grand-duchess of Tuscany) Bachaumont, François le Coigneux de, ii. 207 Bacon, Sir Francis (see St. Albans) Baedeker, Karl, vi. 266 Bagration, Princess, vi. 120 Bail, M., iii. 133 Bail, Dame, iii.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 2 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

While confounding, in some degree, the separate functions of government, as abstractly defined at a later day by Montesquieu, and eventually put in concrete form in our fundamental laws, State and Federal—it is none the less true that these first legislators clearly discerned their inherent rights as a part of the English-speaking race.
— from Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson

Fulgeami gia` in fronte la corona di quella terra
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri