[1] (to the vocabulary section) La quena, fabricada generalmente con una caña peculiar de las montañas del Perú, mide media vara de largo
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

I SCENE I.—LADY SNEERWELL'S House LADY SNEERWELL at her dressing table with LAPPET; MISS VERJUICE drinking chocolate LADY SNEERWELL.
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Mr. Vholes did as he was asked and seemed to read it every word.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

M. Fitz-Morris (who was a great mall player himself) was our president; and I must observe, notwithstanding the imputation of wildness that is generally bestowed on students, that I found more virtuous dispositions among these youths than could easily be found among an equal number of men: they were rather noisy than fond of wine, and more merry than libertine.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There was one woman physician driving about town in her carriage, attacking the most violent diseases in all quarters with persistent courage, like a modern Bellona in her war chariot, who was popularly supposed to gather in fees to the amount ten to twenty thousand dollars a year.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world; Or whether thou to our moist vows deny'd, Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, 160 Where the great vision of the guarded Mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Mamerto y Macario, y de esperar la llegada del marqués para tener con él la anhelada conversación que ya se había repetido para sí mil veces durante su vida.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

When I took off my veil, did you see, Antonia, what an effect the action had upon the Conde?
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

] MERGI (De), son of the preceding, married Vanda de Bourlac.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

From this moment Vampa devoted all his leisure time to perfecting himself in the use of his precious weapon; he purchased powder and ball, and everything served him for a mark—the trunk of some old and moss-grown olive-tree, that grew on the Sabine mountains; the fox, as he quitted his earth on some marauding excursion; the eagle that soared above their heads: and thus he soon became so expert, that Teresa overcame the terror she at first felt at the report, and amused herself by watching him direct the ball wherever he pleased, with as much accuracy as if he placed it by hand.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Maria Vittoria did not change her attitude, nor for a while did she answer, but the tears gathered in her eyes and welled over.
— from Clementina by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

At the moment of completing this work I would like to be allowed to cast a backward glance upon the stage that it marks in my scientific career, and to express my heartfelt gratitude to my very dear master and friend, Dr. Émile Roux, to whom I owe the extreme gratification of having been able to dedicate my life to the study of experimental science, and of having caused to germinate, grow, and ripen a few of the ever fertile seeds that he sows broadcast around him.
— from Venoms: Venomous Animals and Antivenomous Serum-therapeutics by A. (Albert) Calmette

"Strange--very strange!" muttered Van Duren.
— from A Secret of the Sea: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

The letter of Lady Trusty, however, joined to the late accidents which had happened, having now given her a turn of mind vastly different from what it had been a very little time before, made her now prefer the conversation of Miss Mabel to most others of her acquaintance.
— from The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Fowler Haywood

‘You look hardly strong enough for such hard labour,’ said Mrs Villiers, doubtfully eyeing the slender figure of the young man.
— from Madame Midas by Fergus Hume

The moment the projectile leaves the muzzle, gravity begins to act upon it, causing it to move vertically downwards with ever-increasing velocity until it finally reaches the ground; the onward uniform movement parallel to the axis of the piece being continued all the time.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

Phœ. 'Twas happy for me that I was at my vocation, driving day-light about the world.
— from Dryden's Works Vol. 08 (of 18) by John Dryden

For the people called Ordouices, that inhabited in the countrie of Chesshire, Lancashire and part of Shropshire, had latelie before ouerthrowne, and in maner vtterlie destroied a wing of such horssemen as soiourned in their parties, by reason whereof all the prouince was brought almost into an assured hope to recouer libertie.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

In any case it would seem likely that, if deep trenches were driven through the heart of these vast agglomerations of unbaked brick, many valuable discoveries would be made.
— from A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles Chipiez

Then Mrs. Vernon drove slower and spoke of the place they were bound for.
— from Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp by Lillian Elizabeth Roy