anumalíya n anomaly, usually said euphemistically of fraudulent transactions.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

This simile has been beautifully varied and adorned by Moschus 504 and Quintus Calaber 505 , among the Greeks; and among the modern Italians by Petrarch, in his exquisite sonnet on the death of Laura:— “Qual Rossignuol che si soave piagne,” &c. and by Naugerius, in his ode Ad Auroram , “Nunc ab umbroso simul esculeto, Daulias late queritur: querelas Consonum circa nemus, et jocosa reddit imago.”
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. I by John Colin Dunlop

“The Emperor does not care for us; he knows nothing about us,” said Elsie.
— from The Children's Tabernacle; Or, Hand-Work and Heart-Work by A. L. O. E.

Its day is done; and we shall never again, upon summer evenings, hear that call to prayers.
— from The Story of a Child by Pierre Loti

I might have looked over "my portfolio" till doomsday, as I have not an unpublished scrap, except Taken for Granted .
— from Maria Edgeworth by Helen Zimmern

You must never again use such expressions, for, if you do—remember Siberia!”
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Authors were formerly not agreed concerning the insect from which this sound of terror proceeded, some attributing it to a kind of wood-louse, as I lately observed, and others to a spider; but it is a received opinion now, adopted upon satisfactory evidence, that it is produced by some little beetles belonging to the timber-boring genus Anobium .
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 2 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

Youngster, you may go to your duty, and recollect that you never again use such expressions to your superior officer,' and, said he in a low tone, 'I may add, never venture in my presence to make such an apology as that again.'"
— from Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat

Where possible, UTF superscript and subscript numbers are used; some e-reader fonts may not support these characters.
— from Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 2 (of 3) Mass and Energy; The Neutron; The Structure of the Nucleus by Isaac Asimov

But this resolution does not at all intimidate these clever thieves; they get a scrap of paper written in a lady’s or gentleman’s name, and unless some errors in orthography, or a particular specimen of bad writing, leads to a suspicion of their authenticity, they often succeed in getting a “pretty considerable deal of goods,” as the Americans say.
— from Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Mrs. Lanaghan