li noſt i ne canduſſero a le naui dizidoto tra homini et femine et foreno repartiti de due parte deL porto açio pigliaſſeno de li dicti animalj.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

SYN: Quarrelsome, complaining, fretful, repining, discontented, dissatisfied, chiding, murmuring, whining, peevish, fastidious, irritable.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

At tibi nos, quando non proderit ista silere A quibus omne aevi senium sua fama repellit, Digna damus, iuvenis, meritae praeconia vitae.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

II ne tarda pas à se rétablir , en effet, et comme il se défiait de lui-même, il prescrivit à un de ses ouvriers de le faire ressouvenir du drapeau chaque fois qu'il couperait un habit .
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

We had had a glimpse, from a mountain top, of the Dead Sea, lying like a blue shield in the plain of the Jordan, and now we were marching down a close, flaming, rugged, desolate defile, where no living creature could enjoy life, except, perhaps, a salamander.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

XXXII 275 Upon the top of all his loftie crest, A bunch of haires discolourd diversly, With sprincled pearle, and gold full richly drest, Did shake, and seemd to daunce for jollity, Like to an Almond tree ymounted hye 280 On top of greene Selinis ° all alone, With blossoms brave bedecked daintily; Whose tender locks do tremble every one At every little breath that under heaven is blowne.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

The same day on which Robert d’Estouteville took the place of Jacques de Villiers in the provostship of Paris, Master Jehan Dauvet replaced Messire Helye de Thorrettes in the first presidency of the Court of Parliament, Jehan Jouvenel des Ursins supplanted Pierre de Morvilliers in the office of chancellor of France, Regnault des Dormans ousted Pierre Puy from the charge of master of requests in ordinary of the king’s household.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

[‘ reme ’] hrȳme = hrūm hrympelle = rimpel + hryne = +ryne hryre I. m. fall, ruin, destruction, decay , Æ, B, Bo ; AO, CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

The Rev. C. Holcombe, who crossed in October, says (p. 65): that "it was nowhere more than 6 feet deep, and on returning, three of the boatmen sprang into the water in midstream and waded ashore, carrying a line from the ferry-boat to prevent us from rapidly drifting down with the current.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

They are called the Conversationshaus, the Cursaal or Curhaus, containing, in addition to the gambling tables, spacious apartments for reading, dining, dancing, and lounging.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

Compare universe , unison , unite , formalism , formation , reform , deformed , deformity (the last word occurs in the next paragraph of the story).
— from Stories from Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore

I wuz born plantin’ corn time, de spring arfter big Jim an’ de six steers got washed away at de upper ford right down dyar b’low de quarters ez he wuz a bringin’ de Chris’mas things home; an’ Marse Chan, he warn’ born tell mos’ to der harves’ arfter my sister Nancy married Cun’l Chahmb’lin’s Torm, ’bout eight years arfterwards.
— from Stories by American Authors, Volume 9 by Various

Ah, down in the valleys only the skin is punctured, but up on the high places of rank, the heart; and the index-hand of the village clock moves merely around the hours of hunger and sweat, but the second-hand, set with brilliants, flies round dreary, despairing, bloody minutes."
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. I. by Jean Paul

and I fell right down——" "Did you see anyone, Dicky?"
— from A Woman's Burden: A Novel by Fergus Hume

—— La Forêt de Fontainebleau; Revue des Deux Mondes, 1 Mai, 1863.
— from Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

When I had learned seven letters bonne maman gave me four red dragées de baptême ,—the sugar-almonds that are scattered at christenings,—and promised me as many more for each new attainment.
— from A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

“Un capital de 1,000 livres qui valait 22,000 francs en 1200, n’en valait plus intrinsèquement que 16,000 en 1300; 7,530 en 1400; 6,460 en 1500, et était tombé en 1600 à 2,570 francs.”— Revue des deux mondes , July 15, 1892, 800.
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson