fama , f. , reputation; —— es , the story goes.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Meanwhile Phrynichus, the Athenian commander, had received precise intelligence of the fleet from Leros, and when his colleagues expressed a wish to keep the sea and fight it out, flatly refused either to stay himself or to let them or any one else do so if he could help it.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

encender t set on fire, inflame, light; —ido (very) red, fiery red. encerrar t shut up; lock up, lock one's door.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

For many, global communication is almost free.| Reading exactly the same news through another network or service, may cost you 300 percent more.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

44, "the jurisprudence of the first Romans exhibited the scenes of a pantomime; the words were adapted to the gestures, and the slightest error or neglect in the forms of proceeding was sufficient to annul the substance of the fairest claims.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Let him that desires reason for it, be pleased to read Butler’s book of Bees, a most excellent experimental work, there he shall find reason enough to satisfy any reasonable man.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

The jurisprudence of the first Romans exhibited the scenes of a pantomime; the words were adapted to the gestures, and the slightest error or neglect in the forms of proceeding was sufficient to annul the substance of the fairest claim.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

At Herbert's earnest entreaty, the marriage of his sister was, however, fixed rather earlier than she had intended.
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 2 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar

For, like all Irishmen, he was fond of telling stories of how people brought him their lives' problems, which he always found ridiculously easy to solve.
— from The Judge by Rebecca West

that heaving bosom, those fiery red eyes, those swelling lips—all of them are in their way the interpreters of that one thought.
— from The Day of Wrath by Mór Jókai

As if in answer to it, a light began to move in a room with two windows strongly illuminated, which presently lit up the third window, evidently that of a first room, either the salon or the dining-room of the apartment.
— from The Thirteen by Honoré de Balzac

For the Indians east of the Cascades the treaties of 1855 (ratified in 1859) provided five reservations, each the size of a [Pg 37] large county.
— from The Washington Historical Quarterly, Volume V, 1914 by Various

" When the Benton left her dock for Cairo, Foote requested Eads to see her there in safety.
— from James B. Eads by Louis How

"Oh, hush!" whispered Belle, for Mrs. Jocelyn now entered with the children, whom she was glad to have away when the unnatural father returned, even though she knew they were with the wild young Arabs of the tenement.
— from Without a Home by Edward Payson Roe

At first Roger expected to see the whole building crumble down into the stream, and supposed that the inhabitants might be swept quite away.
— from The Settlers at Home by Harriet Martineau