The fear of endless scandal, the entreaties of husband and mother, and the unworthiness of Lousteau, finally led Dinah de la Baudraye to rejoin her husband, who owned an elegant mansion on rue de l'Arcade.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

And as the legions, according to their usual custom, were fortifying their camp upon that mountain, he began to cast up banks at the bottom, at the part towards the east, where the highest tower of the whole city was, and where the fifteenth legion pitched their camp; while the fifth legion did duty over against the midst of the city, and whilst the tenth legion filled up the ditches and the valleys.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

In that dim light, the members nervous from long drawn duty, exhausted, some asleep, and many half asleep.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

He had a thin horseshoe beard, salient cheek-bones, and with both elbows on the desk clasped his rugged hands before his face, looking at Jim with thoughtful blue eyes; the other, a heavy, scornful man, thrown back in his seat, his left arm extended full length, drummed delicately with his finger-tips on a blotting-pad: in the middle the magistrate upright in the roomy arm-chair, his head inclined slightly on the shoulder, had his arms crossed on his breast and a few flowers in a glass vase by the side of his inkstand.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Ni s'il faut le dompter d'ailleurs… En tout cas, les créateurs, artistes, musiciens, les sites scientifiques, les petites "start-up" créatives, voire les millions de pages perso, les chats, les forums, et tout ce qui donne au net sa matière propre ne pourra être ignoré par les grands mangeurs de toile.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

comble , m., fig. , le dernier degré.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

tō-lȳsednes , -lȳsnes f. loosing, dissolution, dispersion, destruction, release, dismissal : desolation , GD: death . tōlȳsend m. destroyer , WW 220 13 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

LESSON XLI, § 239 calamitās, calamitātis , f., loss, disaster, defeat (calamity) caput, capitis , n., head (capital) flūmen, flūminis , n., river (flume) labor, labōris , m., labor, toil opus, operis , n., work, task ōrātor, ōrātōris , m., orator rīpa, -ae , f., bank (of a stream) tempus, temporis , n., time (temporal) terror, terrōris , m., terror, fear victor, victōris , m., victor accipiō, accipere, accēpī, acceptus , receive, accept cōnfirmō, cōnfīrmāre, cōnfīrmāvī, cōnfīrmātus , strengthen, establish, encourage (confirm)
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

A laugh followed Billie's words, and putting spurs to their horses, the four lads dashed down the mountain road upon their self-appointed mission, which was by no means the first daring adventure in which they had engaged; for the stories of the doings of the three American lads in the quartette have furnished interesting reading for thousands of American boys.
— from The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes by Frank Fowler

[Pg xxxvii] PLATE XXXVII Photo, Hollyer SIR LAUNCELOT IN THE QUEEN'S CHAMBER [Pg xxxviii] PLATE XXXVIII Photo, Hollyer STUDY FOR LA DONNA DELLA
— from Drawings of Rossetti by T. Martin Wood

His fair little daughter did not take the information quite so composedly: she fixed on me a pair of eyes wide with wonder—almost with dismay.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Dave Dawson at Dunkirk Dave Dawson with the R. A. F. Dave Dawson in Libya Dave Dawson on Convoy Patrol Dave Dawson at Singapore Dave Dawson with the Pacific Fleet Dave Dawson with the Air Corps Dave Dawson on the Russian Front Dave Dawson Flight Lieutenant Dave Dawson with the Commandos Dave Dawson with the Flying Tigers Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal DAVE DAWSON
— from Dave Dawson at Casablanca by Robert Sidney Bowen

P HEBUS (Gaston, Conte de Foix), Livre du deduyt de la Chasse.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 83, May 31, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

112 Adalgarius (see Oger) Adam, ii. 245; v. 9; vi. 89, 111, 206 Adams, President of the United States of America, John, i. 252 Adelaide of Savoy, Queen of France, later Dame de Montmorency, iv.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

'I am not a funny little daughter.' 'Dearest,' said her father, kissing her between her black brows, 'we must forgive Aunt Agnes.
— from Hollyhock: A Spirit of Mischief by L. T. Meade