Y detrás de este amontonamiento de saltos, y a la izquierda, y a la derecha, [1] cerca y lejos, arriba, abajo, allá en las alturas, aquí a los pies, trenzándose a pechadas con las rocas que, aunque aguantan, retiemblan, otros, y otros, y otros saltos, cubriendo una superficie de cuatro mil metros:
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

: us self , ourselves, S, C2; us selue , P; us silf , W.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Silius optatae succurrere censuit umbrae, Silius et vatem, non minor ipse, colit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

To be brief upon a vile topic, none of the low finesse was omitted, so customary upon similar occasions that it is a just matter for wonder how any are still found so besotted as to fall its victim.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

And carefully he bred me in decency and order, O; He bade me act a manly part, though I had ne'er a farthing, O; For without an honest manly heart, no man was worth regarding, O. Then out into the world my course I did determine, O; Tho' to be rich was not my wish, yet to be great was charming, O; My talents they were not the worst, nor yet my education, O: Resolv'd was I at least to try to mend my situation, O. In many a way, and vain essay, I courted Fortune's favour, O; Some cause unseen still stept between, to frustrate each endeavour, O; Sometimes by foes I was o'erpower'd, sometimes by friends forsaken, O; And when my hope was at the top, I still was worst mistaken, O. Then sore harass'd and tir'd at last, with Fortune's vain delusion, O, I dropt my schemes, like idle dreams, and came to this conclusion, O; The past was bad, and the future hid, its good or ill untried, O; But the present hour was in my pow'r, and so I would enjoy it, O. No help, nor hope, nor view had I, nor person to befriend me, O; So I must toil, and sweat, and moil, and labour to sustain me, O;
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Savin: hot and dry in the third degree, potently provokes the menses, expels both birth and afterbirth, they (boiled in oil and used in ointments) stay creeping ulcers, scour away spots, freckles and sunburning from the face; the belly anointed with it kills worms in children.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Why, surely the gods themselves have forbidden that a man who is kind to others should commit unnatural self-murder.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

National Geographic Society index to map of South Central United States.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1974 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

A new supply of water of a proper temperature being introduced into the reservoir, it was again raised to the proper height, and the operation so continued until six quarts of water had been used.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 by Various

With the supporters of such constitutions unamended, some who disapprove of them, have in some respects to co-operate.
— from The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham

Once Songbird came upon some spiders larger than any he had yet seen and two crawled on his shoulder, causing him to yell in fright.
— from The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle; or, The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht by Edward Stratemeyer

There is no tangible link between his descendant Woden and the worship of earth, but the sheaf of corn, the symbol of Sceaf, carries us straight back to Nature worship.
— from The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

"I ought to have gone before it happened," she said penitently; "any woman with a grain of sense can usually see that—that sort of thing coming, and ward it off beforehand.
— from The Old Gray Homestead by Frances Parkinson Keyes

Many of the old Scottish towns (and English ones, too, for that matter) have these old stone crosses, usually set in the middle of the main street, or in the public square.
— from Our Little Scotch Cousin by Blanche McManus

The leaders of the older section of South Carolina, urging secession, were now confronted with a peculiar dilemma.
— from Expansion and Conflict by William Edward Dodd

of the amount of scrip then applied for, has been actually paid to the treasurer of said corporation, until six hundred thousand dollars subscribed for have been paid by the stockholders.
— from Report of the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad, by the Joint Standing Committee of 1866. by Tappan Wentworth