Observando bien, Pepe Rey vió que tales rumores procedían 25 de un enorme balcón con celosías, que frente por frente a la ventana mostraba su corpulenta fábrica.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

kulilísi n a game played during wakes after the prayers in which the participants recite verses ( ditsu ), contesting with each other.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The next day, as soon as it was light, Passepartout rapped vigorously at his master's door.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Phr. stet pro ratione voluntas[Lat]; sic volo sic jubeo[Lat]; a vostro beneplacito[It]; beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere[Lat]; Deus vult[Lat]; was man nicht kann meiden muss man willig leiden[Ger].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Lake , sb. standing-water, Prompt.; rivulus , Voc.; llak , pl. , S2. Comb. : lake-ryftes , chines worn by water, S2.—AF. lake , OF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

It was situated in a pretty retired valley, surrounded by hills, about eight miles from C——, and about a mile from the great road leading to Toronto.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Now, that phrase has become notoriously trite and hackneyed, and people repeat vaguely that books are the medicine of the mind.
— from The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 09 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Pauline soon found herself reading, with misty eyes and indignant heart-beats, a kind of baleful biography of herself, in which her career, from her rash early marriage until her recent entertainment of certain guests, was mercilessly parodied, ridiculed, vilified.
— from The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

Especially he professed roeh veeno nireh (to see everything, but not to be seen by others), that is, to be able to make himself invisible.
— from Solomon Maimon: An Autobiography. by Solomon Maimon

“It surely might be possible,” returned Vivaldi; “the Savelli alone spend more with me than all the rest of Rome.”
— from Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Sacris solemniis juncta sint gaudia, Et ex praecordiis sonent praeconia; Recedant vetera, nova sint omnia, Corda, voces, et opera.
— from Hymni ecclesiae by John Henry Newman

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— from Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 by Edward Ziegler Davis

283 , 341 Palmer, John, his postal reforms, vol.
— from The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Hill, Rowland, Sir

275, 276; Ellis's Polynesian Researches , vol.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle