Acupunc′ture, a surgical operation, consisting in the insertion of needles into certain parts of the body for alleviating pain, or for the cure of different species of rheumatism, neuralgia, eye diseases, &c. It is easily performed, gives little pain,
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

no entiendes de causas...
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

sī omnēs, quī rē̆ī pūblicae cōnsulunt, cārī nōbīs esse dēbent, certē in prīmīs imperātōrēs.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

—Suele encontrarse nuevas especies de cuando en cuando.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

“I’m not going to have any of your horrid New England directness, cousin,” said St. Clare, gayly.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

ANT: Chary, sparing, niggardly, economical, dainty, close, retentive.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

P. 46, l. 808, No eastern dreamer, &c.]—See on l. 304.
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides

Al presente las minas ricas de Méjico no están desarrolladas completamente.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Indeed, the laws of chemistry are still strongly operative in this case, but subordinated, very much modified, and mastered by a higher Idea; therefore mere chemical forces outside the organism will never afford us such humours; but “ Encheiresin naturæ nennt es die Chemie, Spottet ihrer selbst und weiss nicht wie. ”
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Madame, Je suis pénétré de la douleur la plus vive, et réduit en même temps au désespoir par ce retour imprévù du Caporal qui rend notre entrevûe de ce soir la chose du monde la plus impossible.
— from A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne

But he was too cunning for them; he cut off the heads and hands of the corpses, that the survivors might see that not even death could save them from a taskmaster who could maim their souls in the next world.
— from Myths and Dreams by Edward Clodd

'That's natural enough, dear child.
— from Hollyhock: A Spirit of Mischief by L. T. Meade

Mathematicians, though they deduce their theorems from a great height of evidence, yet their first principles are limited by the consideration of quantity: and they do not ascend into any inquiry concerning those transcendental maxims which influence all the particular sciences, each part whereof, Mathematics not excepted, does consequently participate of the errors involved in them.
— from A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley

Beatoun, one of the most able and also dissolute men of his day, was a younger son of the Laird of Balfour—yet had, notwithstanding every disadvantage, contrived very early to attain his high position.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 399, January 1849 by Various

At last, however, when Dora was seventeen, Isabella died of cancer, and Daddy, who had been much shaken and terrified by her sufferings in her last illness, fell for a while into an irritable melancholy, from which not even Dora could divert him.
— from The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Thus it had been made obvious to the unlucky "creature of her own," that the Queen did not easily digest "contempt."
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Page 43 .— “ The light coracle ,” &c. —v. Amuilhon , “ Histoire de la Navigation et du Commerce des Egyptiens sous les Ptolemées .”
— from The Epicurean: A Tale by Thomas Moore

"No; I won't do that now, either," declared Charlie, sternly setting his jaw.
— from Pieces of Eight Being the Authentic Narrative of a Treasure Discovered in the Bahama Islands in the Year 1903 by Richard Le Gallienne

And now, my lord, to apply what I have said to my present business: the satires of Juvenal and Persius, appearing in this new English dress, cannot so properly be inscribed to any man as to your lordship, who are the first of the age in that way of writing.
— from Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden