[178] The expression, del país ( indigenous , native ), has been used in Spanish America from colonial times to designate native species of flowers, vegetables, fruits and trees, thus distinguishing them from similar varieties from Spain ( de Castilla ).
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Now, listen, for something very important is to come next.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It was something which announced itself; a chill breath that seemed to issue from some vast cavern wherein discords waited.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

With the delightful enthusiasm of youth, they took the solitary boy into their midst and made much of him, and he found something very charming in the innocent companionship of these simple-hearted girls.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

3. Any Female, duly certified to be suffering from St. Vitus's Dance, fits, chronic cold accompanied by violent sneezing, or any disease necessitating involuntary motions, shall be instantly destroyed.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Having thrown her veil over her face, She ventured to look out.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

‘Just see what a fine flag!’ said Vasili Andreevich, admiring his handiwork and letting himself down into the sledge.
— from Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

tanquam ferae solitudine vivebant, terrentes alios, timentes.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It is odd that the barbers of the four surrounding villages are entitled to receive gifts of new cloths and money.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The farmer seemed very knowing as to bees, and boasted of having one of the largest bee-sheds in the county.
— from James Fenimore Cooper by Mary Elizabeth Phillips

"In me," he jocularly said, "that is in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing," We spent a joyous hour in his well filled library; he showed me fifteen stately volumes of his printed sermons which have since been more than doubled, besides several of his works translated into French, German, Swedish, Dutch and other languages.
— from Recollections of a Long Life: An Autobiography by Theodore L. (Theodore Ledyard) Cuyler

It will be seen how, in the primitive religions, the religious fact still visibly carries the mark of its origins: it would have been well-nigh impossible
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Chausson's "Poëme" for solo violin with orchestra, given by the Symphony Society in New York City.
— from Annals of Music in America: A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events by Henry Charles Lahee

—Differs from S. v. vagrans in more brownish ventral parts and more brownish, rather than grayish, winter pelage; differs from the sympatric S. v. isolatus in shorter tail, shorter hind foot, more narrow skull, and smaller teeth.
— from Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by James S. (James Smith) Findley

That they will forward their separate articles as far as possible on separate papers; for several valuable communications are now standing over, until we can find leisure to separate and arrange for the press the different parts.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various