Some were undone by lawsuits; others spent all they had in drinking, whoring, and gaming; others fled for treason; many for murder, theft, poisoning, robbery, perjury, forgery, coining false money, for committing rapes, or sodomy; for flying from their colours, or deserting to the enemy; and most of them had broken prison; none of these durst return to their native countries, for fear of being hanged, or of starving in a jail; and therefore they were under the necessity of seeking a livelihood in other places.”
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

mimo m petting, fondling, coddling; slick ways.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

que sus opresores los aniquilaban para formar colonias europeas sobre los despojos de una grande y poderosa nación.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The mere cadence of the sentences, the subtle monotony of their music, so full as it was of complex refrains and movements elaborately repeated, produced in the mind of the lad, as he passed from chapter to chapter, a form of reverie, a malady of dreaming, that made him unconscious of the falling day and creeping shadows.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Nicholas Loven and William Peston founded chantries there.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

At the hour when I usually went downstairs to find out what there was for dinner, its preparation would already have begun, and Françoise, a colonel with all the forces of nature for her subalterns, as in the fairy-tales where giants hire themselves out as scullions, would be stirring the coals, putting the potatoes to steam, and, at the right moment, finishing over the fire those culinary masterpieces which had been first got ready in some of the great array of vessels, triumphs of the potter's craft, which ranged from tubs and boilers and cauldrons and fish kettles down to jars for game, moulds for pastry, and tiny pannikins for cream, and included an entire collection of pots and pans of every shape and size.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

pension , f. , ce que l'on paye pour être logé, nourri, etc. ; revenu annuel accordé aux services, aux talents, etc. percer , faire un trou dans; pénétrer.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

patente patent; f charter, certificate.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

pulverizable; friable, crumbly, shivery; pulverized &c. v.; attrite[obs3]; in pieces.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

To this question nobody can give an answer, and the extreme difficulty makes many think that there will be no change, and that Peel, partly out of regard to the difficulty into which the country would be plunged, and partly from consideration to those persons (of both sides) who have placed themselves in great danger by supporting him, will consent to remain.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 2 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 by Charles Greville

So that the first umbrage given to the Whigs, and the pretences for clamouring against France and the Pretender, were derived from them.
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer by Jonathan Swift

{249} ’ “I wish you would do up a copy with ‘author’s and so forths,’ dated New York , and put it into Ticknor’s first box directed to Dr. O. W. Holmes, Boston, and also one directed to Professor Felton, Cambridge, in Ticknor’s or Nichols’s as it may chance....
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol. 1/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder

People from countries widely separated mingled with each other and chatted with the greatest freedom on every subject of human interest.
— from The Redemption of David Corson by Charles Frederic Goss

A basin of water of a temperature that the sick person finds comfortable.
— from Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Girl Scouts of the United States of America

[15] Picture from Carbon Print by Braun, Clément & Co.
— from Titian: a collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll

This poem furnished cantos for Easter hymns of the Middle Ages.
— from The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Hezekiah Butterworth

These poor fellows cannot tell us.
— from The World of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

By all accounts the poor fellow cannot last many days.
— from Herb of Grace by Rosa Nouchette Carey