In India the natives spoke different dialects which only a few people understood, so she was not surprised when Martha used words she did not know.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

[Lat][Horace]; never say die, dum spiro spero[Lat], latet scintillula forsan[Lat], all is for the best, spero meliora[Lat]; every cloud has a silver lining; "the wish being father to the thought" [Henry IV]; "hope told a flattering tale"; rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis[Lat][obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

El zum-zum , sedentario en esta isla, habita (si así puede decirse [3] ), en las cavidades formadas en las barrancas; sus pequeños nidos son dignos de admirarse por el modo y perfección de su labor: compónelos artísticamente con la lana o seda de la flor de calentura , aforrados de casaisaco , colocándolos en la bifurcación de las ramas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Ya no hay en él ni siquiera dejos de aquel humor ático, de aquella jovialidad correcta y clásica que le 226 hacía tan amable.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Non è uomo chi non sa dir di nò —He's no man who can't say "No."
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

“Shun those who, under the pretence of explaining nature, sow destructive doctrines in the heart of men, those whose apparent scepticism is a hundredfold more self-assertive and dogmatic than the firm tone of their opponents.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Púru nà sulting dugmuk, Don’t believe that gossip.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Estos comercios no se diferencian de las tiendas que tan familiares son a toda persona civilizada.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Anglicana no se desvia de la Catolica, en verdad, que los manejó con tanto nervio y con tanta delicadeza, que los teologos ortodojos mas escolastizados, como si dijéramos electrizados, hacen grande estimacion de dichas obras.
— from The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The advertisements were not sent; Dolby did not enrich its columns paragraphically; and among its news to-day is the item that 'this chap calling himself Dolby got drunk down town last night, and was taken to the police station for fighting an Irishman!'
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

Back in London again, he drifted from one suburban practice to another, doing locum work, and at last built up a semblance of a practice in a cheap new suburban district down at Catford.
— from The Great God Gold by William Le Queux

Skill , n. Skilfulness, dexterity, dexterousness, aptness, adroitness, readiness, facility, expertness, cleverness, quickness, knack, address, ingenuity, ability.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule