We will apply to your loins the great defensive composed of cerate, Armenian bole, white of egg, oil, and vinegar.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

The wide-spread grunting drove came on in a surging mass, and without showing any respect for Don Quixote's dignity or Sancho's, passed right over the pair of them, demolishing Sancho's entrenchments, and not only upsetting Don Quixote but sweeping Rocinante off his feet into the bargain; and what with the trampling and the grunting, and the pace at which the unclean beasts went, pack-saddle, armour, Dapple and Rocinante were left scattered on the ground and Sancho and Don Quixote at their wits' end.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

She passed, too, over the Cartheian walls of ancient Cea, 59 where her father Alcidamas 60 was destined to wonder that a gentle dove could arise from the body of his daughter.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

that had such strange passions and convulsions, three men could not sometimes hold her; she purged a live eel, which he saw, a foot and a half long, and touched it himself; but the eel afterwards vanished; she vomited some twenty-four pounds of fulsome stuff of all colours, twice a day for fourteen days; and after that she voided great balls of hair, pieces of wood, pigeon's dung, parchment, goose dung, coals; and after them two pounds of pure blood, and then again coals and stones, or which some had inscriptions bigger than a walnut, some of them pieces of glass, brass, &c. besides paroxysms of laughing, weeping and ecstasies, &
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

"Encore ont une autre manière de filsoufes, et dient-il: 'Il n'est mie ne Diex ne Kerma ne courance vers le bien, ne Providence, ne Créerres, ne Sauvours, ne sainteté ne pechiés ne conscience de pechié, ne proyère ne response à proyère, il n'est nulle riens fors que trop minime grain ou paillettes qui ont à nom atosmes , et de tiex grains devient chose qui vive, et chose qui vive devient une certeinne creature qui demoure au rivaige de la Mer: et ceste creature devient poissons, et poissons devient lezars, et lezars devient blayriaus, et blayriaus devient gat-maimons, et gat-maimons devient hons sauvaiges qui menjue char d'homes, et hons sauvaiges devient hons crestien.'
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The captain gave the prince a white cloth of the finest linen, a red cap, some strings of glass beads, and a gilded glass drinking cup.
— 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

Item, you sent a large commission To Gregory de Cassado, to conclude, Without the King's will or the state's allowance, A league between his Highness and Ferrara.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“In some religious orders, a monastic superior who has the general superintendence of his fraternity in a given district called a province.” CD.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

mostly, for the most part, in the greatest degree, chiefly, especially .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Then there were the details of the affair, in great degree common to all love affairs, and not varying so widely in any condition of life; for the passion which is so rich and infinite to those within its charm, is apt to seem a little tedious and monotonous in its character, and poor in resources to the cold looker-on.
— from Suburban Sketches by William Dean Howells

She's getting dreadful careless about her clothes.
— from Up the Hill and Over by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

In 1842 M. Germond de Lavigne brought out his translation of Don Pablo which is spirited and readable, but a good deal changed from the original.
— from Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper by Francisco de Quevedo

[These Introductory Chapters have been a good deal censured as tedious and unnecessary.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

The town scatters a dust of city men over its long and lighted streets, powders its crying thoroughfares with gaily dressed creatures who are hidden, like bats, during the hours of day, opens a thousand defiant yellow eyes that have been sealed in sleep, throws off its wrapper and shows its elaborate toilet.
— from Tongues of Conscience by Robert Hichens

There was Galeotto del Carretto, the Montferrat poet and historian, who left his home at Casale to compose plays and sonnets for Beatrice, and who, like Niccolo da Correggio, was one of Isabella's favourite correspondents, and sent her eclogues and strambotti to sing to the lute.
— from Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 by Julia Cartwright

Caspian Sea, i. 72, 73 Cassano, Ussan, i. 49 Castanhoso, Miguel de, ii. 10 Castilla del Oro, i. 34, 47 Cathay, i. 5, 13, 36-38, 54; ii. 19, 20 Champlain, Samuel, i. 23 Chanca, Dr., i. 2, 43 Charles V., Emperor, i. 40, 47; ii. 22, 23, 24 Charnock, Job, i. 74, 75, 78 Cheinie, Richard, i. 72, 73 China, i. 5, 13-15, 17, 36, 37, 39, 54; ii. 19, 20 Christy, Robert Miller, i. 88, 89 Cieza de Leon, Pedro de, i. 33, 68; ii. 22 Cinnamon, Land of, i. 24 Clavigo, Ruy Gonzalez de. See Gonzalez de Clavigo.
— from The War of Quito by Pedro de Cieza de León