Es el caos; es la nada con un solo sér , como mi pobre espíritu, abismada en el eterno vacío!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

The Eagle Sloop of Barbadoes , belonging to the South-Sea Company, with 35 Hands, commanded by Walter Moore , coming near this Island, in her Voyage to Comena , on the Spanish Continent, saw the said Sloop just careen’d, with her Guns out, and Sails unbent, which she supposed to be a Pyrate, because it was a Place where Traders did not commonly use, so took the Advantage of attacking her, as she was then unprepared; the Eagle having fired a Gun to oblige her to shew her Colours, the Pyrate hoisted the St. George ’s Flag at their Topmast-Head, as it were to bid Defiance to her; but when they found Moore and his Crew resolved to board them in good earnest, the Pyrates cut their Cable and hawled their Stern on Shore, which obliged the Eagle to come to an Anchor a-thwart their Hawse, where she engaged them till they called for Quarter and struck; at which Time Lowther and twelve of the Crew made their Escape out of the Cabin Window.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

kapitiríya, kapitirya n cafeteria, usually serving snacks, not heavy meals.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Can we not count upon some independent votes?
— from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

n s.t. skipped over. laktawlaktaw a not continuous, unevenly spaced.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Samsonov's name came up somehow.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When I told her that Santa Claus would not come until she was asleep, she shut her eyes and said, "He will think girl is asleep."
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

“Nolo clericos ullo sanguine contaminari.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

“There,” she said, “now come upstairs softly after me.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Lastly, the warder led us under the Bloody Tower, and by the side of the Wakefield Tower, and showed us the Traitor's Gate, which is now closed up, so as to afford no access to the Thames.
— from Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2. by Nathaniel Hawthorne

We need both, for the train is to be cut into two—one engine will not carry us safely up the perilous slope—and the Pullman carriages in a few minutes rumble out ahead of us.
— from The American Egypt: A Record of Travel in Yucatan by Frederick J. Tabor Frost

Cecilia devoted herself to the classical studies in which she had taken delight from her earliest youth, and entertained her learned friends in her town house or at her villa near Cremona until she died in advanced old age, some years after the last of Lodovico's sons had ceased to reign over Milan.
— from Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 by Julia Cartwright

For that reason, the utopians, who want to have commodities but not money, who want a system of production based on private exchange without the necessary conditions underlying such a system, are consistent when they “destroy” money not in its tangible form but in its nebulous illusory form of a measure of value.
— from A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx

B. frequently left home for days at a time, compelling her patient brother to prepare his own meals or do without, but he never complained unless she chose to construe half-jesting, half-earnest raillery into complaint.
— from The Story of a Country Town by E. W. (Edgar Watson) Howe

n Common Use simply and shortly Explained.
— from Cat and Dog; Or, Memoirs of Puss and the Captain by Julia Charlotte Maitland

But it is remarkable that the same word should enter into numeral composition under such different meanings.
— from The Number Concept: Its Origin and Development by Levi L. (Levi Leonard) Conant

But this conclusion must necessarily carry us still farther.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Pastoral Epistles by Alfred Plummer

Last night I overheard father telling some business associates that he would one day be the biggest power in the north country, unless something happened to check him soon.
— from Then I'll Come Back to You by Larry Evans