“This is pretty, very pretty,” said Fanny, looking around her as they were thus sitting together one day; “every time I come into this shrubbery I am more struck with its growth and beauty.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

ANT: Exhibit, manifest, protrude, vaunt, pretend, simulate, feign, assume, expose, profess, proclaim.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Quien la hubiera visto animada de aquella velocidad, habría creído que poca ventaja podría sacarle el vapor
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

[11] poca ventaja podría sacarle el vapor, that ( to travel by ) steam were but little faster .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Polcat , sb. polecat, C3; pulkat , Prompt., Voc.; pulcatte , SkD; powlkat , SkD.—ME. pol- ; OF. pole , polle ; Lat. pulla .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

On the other hand, it contains several clever caricatures, and a heap of delightful quotations, and Green’s philosophy very pleasantly sugars the somewhat bitter pill of the author’s fiction.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

Sythe , sb. scythe, PP, Voc., Prompt.; sithe , P.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Vorspiegelung make-believe Vorwegnahme anticipation Vorwegnahme; Vorausschätzung anticipation vorwegnehmen anticipate vorwegnehmend anticipatory Vorwort foreword vorzeitig premature vorziehen prefer Vorzug preference Vorzugsaktie preferential share Vorzugsaktie preferred share Vorzugsaktien preference shares Vorzugsaktienzertifikat preference share certificate Vorzugsaktionär holder of preferential shares Vorzugsaktionär preferential shareholder Vorzugsbedingungen preferential terms Vorzugsdividende preference dividend Vorzugspreis preferential price Vorzugsrecht
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Il faudra alors chercher ailleurs, là où l'herbe est plus verte… Pour s'en tenir à la cyber-littérature, ou littérature numérique ou comme on voudra l'appeler, son avenir est tracé par sa technologie même : il est maintenant impossible à un(e) auteur(e) seul(e) de manier à la fois les mots, leur apparence mouvante et leur sonorité.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The Terga are battle axe-shaped, with the blade part very prominent, smooth-edged; behind the blade there is a short upwardly-turned prominence.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin

Dolore sacro approbante concilio, Non Per Modum Definitivæ Sententiæ, cum eam super hoc secundum inquisitiones et processus super his habitos, Non possumus Ferre, de Jure, Sed Per viam Provisionis, seu ordinationis apostolicæ, irrefragabili et Perpetuo Valitura sustulimus sanctione, ipsum prohibitione Perpetuæ supponentes, distinctius inhibendo ne quis dictum Ordinem de cœtero intrare, vel ejus habitum suscipere aut [Pg ii] portare, vel pro Templario gerere se præsumeret; quod si quis contra faceret, excommunicationis incurreret sententiam, ipso facto.
— from Sketch of the History of the Knights Templars Second Edition by James Burnes

AND POISONOUS VEGETABLE PRINCIPLES SEPARATED FOR THE MOST PART BY ALCOHOLIC SOLVENTS.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

Restraint was considered no virtue in a medieval widow, and Pertelote very properly screams loudly and persistently.
— from Chaucer and His Times by Grace E. (Grace Eleanor) Hadow

The public very properly shun all whose integrity is doubted.
— from A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career: Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum by Joel Benton

Principal vocal performers, Signor Giovanni Orsi and Signora Vidina.
— from The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs by Thomas Frost