Laton , sb. auricalcum , Prompt., C2; latoun , C3, C, W, WA; latten , Sh., ND, HD.—OF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Not for a pious chap like you, Tommy.”
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

Dear sir & the minester makes a prayer the gost went of mostly not all part stayed behind shee has bin Crasey Ever sence the prest cant Lay the sepont houe
— from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter

pece , piece ; cp. Low Lat. pecia , a piece (Voc.), a cup (Ducange).
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Propitiatory Ceremonies ( limas , ambangan , etc.).
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Homer, he continues, recites in his Catalogue the Troes, and those now called Paphlagonians, Mysians, Phrygians, Carians, Lycians, Meionians, instead of Lydians and other unknown people, as Halizoni and Caucones; nations besides not mentioned in the Catalogue but elsewhere, as Ceteii, Solymi, the Cilicians from the plain of Thebe, and Leleges.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

“How annoying!” said the police captain, looking pensively at Pyotr Mihalitch.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Los llamamos los ajeros... pues digo que serán todo lo insignes que tú quieras; pero a mí me pican como los frutos del país.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Hybrids, however, are differently circumstanced before and after birth: when born and living in a country where their two parents can live, they are generally placed under suitable conditions of life.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

King Harald then steered with his fleet in through the fjord to where it was broadest to a place called Lusbreid.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

As soon as Parliament met he began to take an active part amongst the Protectionist malcontents, and he devoted much time to getting up the pro Corn Law case.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 3 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 by Charles Greville

Well, then, the notion of the music of morning comes in—with strings of lyre (or frets of Katharine's instrument, whatever it was) and stops of various quills ; which gets us into another group beginning with plectrum , going aside again into plico and plight , and Milton's "Play in the plighted clouds" (the quills on the fretful porcupine are all thought of, first, in their piped complexity like rushes, before the standing up
— from Arrows of the Chace, vol. 2/2 being a collection of scattered letters published chiefly in the daily newspapers 1840-1880 by John Ruskin

She had a parasol covered like an umbrella, and a little straw hat, the lining of which surely bore the words: Dernière mode .
— from Romance of the Rabbit by Francis Jammes

"In the simplest and clearest definition of it, economy, whether public or private, means the wise management of labor; and it means this mainly in three senses: namely, first, applying your labor rationally; secondly, preserving its produce carefully; lastly, distributing its produce seasonably.
— from Arrows of the Chace, vol. 2/2 being a collection of scattered letters published chiefly in the daily newspapers 1840-1880 by John Ruskin

When I made my mission known, caution was recommended to me by Madame who presides chez le patissier , and Monsieur le Gros , as he is familiarly known, who provides me with [Pg 148] groceries, and M. Edmond from whom I buy my vegetables and salads at the Quatre Saisons .
— from Our House and London out of Our Windows by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Lord Gosford had asked the Assembly to vote a permanent civil list, in view of the fact that the government offered to hand over to the control of the legislature the casual and territorial revenues of the Crown.
— from The 'Patriotes' of '37 A Chronicle of the Lower Canada Rebellion by Alfred D. (Alfred Duclos) DeCelles

“’Twas meal and potatoes,” cried little Dick, stumbling up and down the path, and getting [379] in everybody’s way.
— from The Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House by Margaret Sidney

Still it was clear that what was meant was, that the earth would be so far from the place of nearest approach to the sun that the latter would not look as large as it possibly can look, by so many seconds of semi-diameter.
— from Light Science for Leisure Hours A series of familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c. by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor

decantando septem psalmos penitentiales cum letaniis suffragii et orationibus inde sequentibus mandamus moneri supplicantes prout supra ut in eisdem
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans