159 32 mete y saca de palabrejas : 'prodding [lit. 'sticking in and pulling out'] with lingo.' Mete and saca are imperatives, but used here nominally.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Il est l'auteur de livres pédagogiques (par exemple Ten-Minute Grammar Grabbers), de livres pour enfants (par exemple The Kids' How to Do Almost Everything Guide), de réalisations multimédia (par exemple The Writing Trek) et de scénarios (par exemple Summer of the Flying Saucer - produit par la société irlandaise Magma Films en 2001).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Besides Virgil, most of the Latin poets, Propertius, Lucan, Silius Italicus, Claudian, &c., whose passages may be found in Cluverius and Addison, have celebrated the triumphal victims of the Clitumnus.
— 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

that some police provision long since interfered with the soft-tongued instruments.
— from By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy by George Gissing

“Please, please, listen,” she implored, throwing out her hands.
— from Rose O'Paradise by Grace Miller White

The Brooklyn Eagle quickly followed with a request for an interview; the Boston Globe followed suit; the Philadelphia Public Ledger sent its New York correspondent; and before Edward was aware of it, newspapers in different parts of the country were writing about "the well-known Brooklyn autograph collector.
— from A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After by Edward William Bok

Under the papal power Louis Steinway incurred the displeasure of one of the dignitaries of the church, and his position as organist was taken from him.
— from Scenes in Switzerland by American Tract Society

The dark eyes of Polly Pendleton looked straight into his face now.
— from The Way Out by Emerson Hough

Savigny: [The Code Napoléon] "a political malady," ii. 223. Sieyès: "Une poire pour la soif," ii. 130.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

La jeune Reine avoit vingt ans passez, sans compter les cent ans qu'elle avoit dormi: sa peau estoit un peu dure, quoyque belle & blanche; & le moyen de trouver dans la Ménagerie une beste aussi dure que cela: il prit la résolution pour sauver sa vie, de couper la gorge à la Reine, & monta dans sa chambre, dans l'intention de n'en pas faire à deux fois; il s'excitoit à la fureur, & il entra le poignard à la main dans la chambre de la jeune Reine: Il ne voulut pourtant point la surprendre, & il lui dit avec beaucoup de respect, l'ordre qu'il avoit receu de la Reine-Mere.
— from Popular Tales by Charles Perrault