ANT: Cause, principle, power, motive, energy, operation, action, tendency, law.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Oui, je lis environ cinq à six journaux (quotidiens et hebdomadaires), deux à trois livres papier par mois, et environ 3 à 4.000 photocopies par an.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

[3] el 16 de Septiembre de 1810 por los primeros patriotas mejicanos encabezados por Hidalgo, cura del pueblo, no pudo dejar de [4] encontrar simpático eco en el corazón de Morelos; así fué que [5] cuando en el mes siguiente llegó Hidalgo a Valladolid, al frente de un ejército patriota, y se apoderó sin resistencia de la ciudad, Morelos fué uno de los primeros en ponerse a su lado y pedirle un puesto en que sacrificarse por la libertad de su patria.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

prodigioso prodigious, marvelous, extraordinary.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

So the conclusion we come to is that the man whom nature has endowed with intellectual wealth is the happiest; so true it is that the subjective concerns us more than the objective; for whatever the latter may be, it can work only indirectly, secondly, and through the medium of the former—a truth finely expressed by Lucian:— [Greek: Aeloutos ho taes psychaes ploutus monos estin alaethaes Talla dechei ataen pleiona ton kteanon —]
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

One morning I again took up the Bible, and without thinking or looking for any particular passage, my eyes were arrested by these words (also in a chapter which is never [113] read by the Jews): 'For He was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of My people was He stricken.'
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

After the separation of matter, God gives form and regularity to the universe; and all other living creatures being produced, Prometheus moulds earth tempered with water, into a human form, which is animated by Minerva.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

131- 132 hands pointed with brass, which equipment was then entirely novel in Greece, chose rather to follow the more wonderful version, and to say, that Cadmus had five companions produced from the teeth of a serpent; as, according to Bochart’s suggestion, the same Phœnician phrase may either signify a company of men sprung from the teeth of a serpent, or a company of men armed with brazen darts.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

I wish I could rest content with the apparent happiness on which people pay me every day such stupid compliments, which, to put the finishing touch to, I have to answer politely.'"
— from On Love by Stendhal

Ar' oun ou mainesthai nomisteon auton ê pantapasin apeiron einai tôn ergôn tês technês? tis gar ouk oiden, hôs, ei men phlegmatos agôgon dotheiê pharmakon tois ikteriôsin, ouk an oude tettaras kyathous kathartheien; houtô d' oud' ei tôn hydragôgôn ti; cholagôgô de pharmakô pleiston men ekkenoutai cholês, autika de katharos tois houtô kathartheisin ho chrôs gignetai.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

1881 Gray, Rev. Plymouth, Pa. M. E. Robbed old Mr. Albrighten, larceny, lying; gave up the money; confessed.
— from Crimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada by M. E. Billings

ó i m o riréte, &c. All third persons plurall must end in Ránn o , with the accent ouer the last vowell sauing one, as L ó r o ameránn o , L ó r o vedránn o , L ó r o scriueránn o , L ó r o m o riránn o , &c. And so all the rest both regular and irregular; alwaies remembred that in verbes of the first coniugation, the last A. of the Infinitiue moode in this tence must be changed into E. and in steede of Amarò, Danzarái, Cantarà, Andarém o , Saltaréte, Mangiaránn o ,
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

This prevailed perhaps more especially among the Dutch.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

La Tour de Percemont pleased me extremely.
— from The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by George Sand

Western Sahara fruits and vegetables (grown in the few oases); camels, sheep, goats (kept by nomads); fish Yemen grain, fruits, vegetables, pulses, qat, coffee, cotton; dairy products, livestock (sheep, goats, cattle, camels), poultry; fish Zambia corn, sorghum, rice, peanuts, sunflower seed, vegetables, flowers, tobacco, cotton, sugarcane, cassava (tapioca), coffee; cattle, goats, pigs, poultry, milk, eggs, hides Zimbabwe corn, cotton, tobacco, wheat, coffee, sugarcane, peanuts; sheep, goats, pigs
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

THINGS WHO MADE THIS BOOK AUBREY BEARDSLEY TO THE MOST EMINENT AND REVEREND PRINCE GIULIO POLDO PEZZOLO Most Eminent Prince , I know not by what mischance the writing of epistles dedicatory has fallen into disuse, whether through the vanity of authors or the humility of patrons.
— from The Story of Venus and Tannhäuser: A Romantic Novel by Aubrey Beardsley

However, it was very funny, and my rubber-soled arctics probably prevented my either coasting straight across into the open fireplace, or having a nasty fall, while the laugh that the announcement created on the part of my host, Archie Martin, saved me from an awkward moment, for from a sort of gilt throne-like arrangement at one side of the hearth, arrayed in brocaded satin gowns cut very low and very long, heads crimped to a crisp, and fastened to meagre shoulders by jewelled collars, the whole topped by a group of three 'Prince of Wales' feathers, Cordelia and her sister came forward two steps to greet me.
— from People of the Whirlpool From The Experience Book of a Commuter's Wife by Mabel Osgood Wright