He was attended by a body of cavalry: but having stopped on the road for some necessary occasion, his guards preserved a respectful distance, and Martialis, approaching his person under a presence of duty, stabbed him with a dagger.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I’ll satisfy you doubly, doblemente, porque os digo since I tell you that, just for fun, que a la novicia uniré I’ll add a friend’s lady la dama de algún amigo to the novice nun, que para casarse esté. whom he’s about to marry.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Such a profusion of detail suggested fiction, and I realised, of course, that she had no chaperon with her.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Under pain of death, silence was enjoined: but the physical laws of motion and sound are not obedient to discipline or fear; each individual might suppress his voice and measure his footsteps; but the march and labor of thousands must inevitably produce a strange confusion of dissonant clamors, which reached the ears of the watchmen of the towers.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Sperrkonto blocked account Sperrung eines Kontos blocking of an account Spesen expense Spesen eingeschlossen charges included Spesenabrechnung account of charges Spesenabrechnung note of expenses Spesenbewilligung expense allowance Spesenkonto expense account Spesenrechnung bill of costs Spesenrechnung bill of expenses Spesenzulage allowance for expenses Spezialarbeiter; Spezialkraft specialized worker Spezialausbildung specialized education Spezialgerät special equipment spezialisiert specialized Spezialisierung specialization Spezialkenntnisse special knowledge Spezialverpackung special packing speziell special spezielle Probleme specific problems Sphäre; Kreis sphere Spiel; Glücksspiel; spielen gamble Spielen gambling Spielen game-playing Spielen gaming Spieler; Spekulant gambler Spielhölle gambling house Spielschuld gambling debt Spielschuld gaming debt Spielschulden gambling debts Spielvertrag wagering contract Spielwarenmesse toy fair Spind; Garderobenschrank locker Spiralheftung spiral binding Spitze der Nachfrage peak of demand Spitzenjahr peak year Spitzenlohn top wage Spitzennachfrage; Spitzenbedarf peak demand Spitzenpapiere blue chips Spitzenverdienst top salary Sponsor sponsor spontan spontaneous spontaner Käufer impulse buyer Spontankauf impulse buying Sportredakteur sports editor Spottpreis knocked-down price Spottpreis; Locopreis spot price Sprachen lernen study languages Sprechanlage intercommunication system Springer spare man Springer stand-by man Spruchband banner Sprung nach vorn jump ahead sprunghafter Anstieg jump sprunghaftes Auf und Ab der Kurse pyrotechnics Spur track Spurweite gauge staatlich unterstützt grant-aided staatlich; Staatsangehöriger national staatliche Fürsorge national assistance staatliche Rentenanleihen consols staatliche Sozialversicherung (Br.)
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

In Switzerland they support the Radicals, without losing sight of the fact that this party consists of antagonistic elements, partly of Democratic Socialists, in the French sense, partly of radical bourgeois.
— from The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels

The other species of this fury are enthusiasms, revelations, and visions, so often mentioned by Gregory and Bede in their works; obsession or possession of devils, sibylline prophets, and poetical furies; such as come by eating noxious herbs, tarantulas stinging, &c., which some reduce to this.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Principally in the one fact of a few hours' priority of discovery, Solokoff finds proof of "the superiority of the Russians in scientific navigation!"
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Mr. Sikes contented himself with tying an imaginary knot under his left ear, and jerking his head over on the right shoulder; a piece of dumb show which the Jew appeared to understand perfectly.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

"Tenez, monsieur!" cries an old woman, whose entire stock-in-trade consists of a few pairs of doll's shoes of chocolate, displayed upon a tin tray, over which she carefully holds a weather-beaten umbrella.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

In the morning I had mended his best velvet breeches for him, and he praised my work not a little, and gave me six shillings over and above my wages; and, says he to me: 'Goody Lake,' says he, 'you are a worthy woman, and do feel concerned for the good of Zion, and the orderly carrying of matters in Church and State, and hence I know you will be glad to hear that, after much ado, and in spite of the strivings of evil-disposed people, the General Court have agreed upon a law for driving the Quakers out of the jurisdiction, on pain of death; so that, if any come after this, their blood be upon their own heads.
— from Margaret Smith's Journal, and Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

They whirled so close to him that Frederick could notice the beads of perspiration on their foreheads; and this gyral movement, more and more lively, regular, provocative of dizzy sensations, communicated to his mind a sort of intoxication, which made other images surge up within it, while every woman passed with the same dazzling effect, and each of them with a special kind of exciting influence, according to her style of beauty.
— from Sentimental Education; Or, The History of a Young Man. Volume 1 by Gustave Flaubert

The nominative ops is not in use, and the plural opes generally signifies ‘the means’ or ‘power of doing something.’
— from C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino by Sallust

On this piece of brass we sweep two arcs with a pair of dividers set at precisely 5", as shown (reduced) at a a and b b .
— from Watch and Clock Escapements A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology by Anonymous

He was trying to fix a mental photograph of a letter—typewritten on paper of dark slatey blue—which he had seen on Hartley Parrish's desk in the library at Harkings on the previous afternoon.
— from The Yellow Streak by Valentine Williams

Thorax campanulate, with irregular, roundish pores of different sizes.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel