What, of itself, would be no evidence of identity, becomes through its corroborative position, proof most sure.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Pakitáa (pakitái) mi sa abilidad nímu sa sáyaw, Show us your dancing talent.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Gavendum hic diligenter a, multum, calefacientibus, atque exsiccantibus, sive alimenta fuerint haec, sive medicamenta: nonnulli enim ut ventositates et rugitus conpescant, hujusmodi utentes medicamentis, plurimum peccant, morbum sit augentes: debent enim medicamenta declinare ad calidum vel frigidum secundum exigentiam circumstantiarum, vel ut patiens inclinat ad cal.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

paso m ( dar take; de at) step, pace; passage; mal—— scrape, pickle, hard place; dar—— a make way for. pastoril shepherd-haunted, pastoral.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Was it the caprice of a moment,—when you, before you had lost your pristine plumpness, marched singing into her bedroom to bid her good-morning?
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

(2.) Stems in -o- with the nominative in -r or in -āius , -ēius , or -ōius are declined as follows: Examples Stems puer , boy , puero- , M. ager , field , agro- , M. Pompēius , Pompey , Pompēio- , M. Singular Nom.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Laŭ ĝiaj reguloj, ĉiu el ili pentris pentraĵon, por montri sian lertecon.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

As soon as they got into order, they divided into two parties, performed mock skirmishes, discharged blunt arrows, drew their swords, fled and pursued, attacked and retired, and, in short, discovered the best military discipline I ever beheld.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

“A lover’s prank, perhaps, my sweetheart,” the mask answered.
— from Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

We see a few rigs of flax—and "lint is in the bell"—the steeping whereof will sadly annoy the bit burnie, but poor people must spin—and as this is not the season, we will think of nothing that can pollute his limpid waters.
— from Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1 by John Wilson

Several times he fetched me a two days' old Scotsman , and I noticed that the interest in the Portland Place murder seemed to have died down.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

The test showed that the device acted immediately and with precision, the piston performing movements simultaneously and in exact accordance with the pendulum.
— from Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight, Parts I and II Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Volume 27 Number 3, Publication 1948, 1911 by Charles M. (Charles Matthews) Manly

The faint sound of a cry came up from the room below, but whether it was of terror, or delight at finding such extraordinary personal property miraculously substituted for the late occupant, he could not tell.
— from Around the Yule Log by Willis Boyd Allen