envisager , regarder au visage; examiner, considérer en esprit.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

My affairs, meanwhile, at the play-table went on not unprosperously, and I was just on the point of marrying the widow Cornu (we were at Brussels by this time, and the poor soul was madly in love with me,) when the London Gazette was put into my hands, and I read the following announcement:— ‘Died at Castle-Lyndon, in the kingdom of Ireland, the Right Honourable Sir Charles Lyndon, Knight of the Bath, member of Parliament for Lyndon in Devonshire, and many years His Majesty’s representative at various European Courts.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

FERRI SOLERENT CIVITAS LONDINENSIS HIS INCOMMODIS REMEDIVM ADHIBERE VOLENS ET CELEBERRIMI SIMVL IN TERRIS EMPORII VTILITATIBVS CONSVLENS REGNI INSVPER SENATVS AVCTORITATE AC
— from Chronicles of London Bridge by Richard Thompson

The reader who concludes that “The Arcadia” of Sidney is a pedantic pastoral, has received a very erroneous conception of the work.
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

At the time of the Crimean War, John Reynolds, a very energetic citizen, was perpetually raising the question about the dangerous practice of driving outside cars from the side instead of the box—in which he was undoubtedly right.
— from The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by Samuel Murray Hussey

Perceiving this, Ananda became elated in spirit, and one day he exclaimed: "How blessed is the apostle who propagates truth by the efficacy of reason and virtuous example, combined with eloquence, rather than error by imposture and devil-mongering, like those miserable Brahmins!"
— from The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett

His "History of King Philip's War" is reprinted, by John Kimball Wiggin, as one of his series of elegant editions of rare and valuable early colonial publications entitled "Library of New England History."
— from Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects by Charles Wentworth Upham

He saw three-fourths of Ireland in the possession of a restless and victorious enemy; Connaught and Clare, which alone remained to the royalists, were depopulated by famine and pestilence; and political and religious dissension divided the leaders and their followers, while one party attributed the national disasters to the temerity of the men who presumed to govern under the curse of excommunication; and the other charged their opponents with concealing disloyal and interested views under the mantle of patriotism [Footnote 1: Ponce, 257-261.]
— from The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 by Hilaire Belloc

These returns are very extraordinary compared with those of our wheat-fields in Europe, which I believe seldom exceed fifteen, and are often under ten.
— from The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden

[135] Reuben Reynolds, after varied experiences, came down from Montreal through the Vermont forests to Philadelphia, where his deposition was taken by Washington’s secretary, Lear, October 19.
— from Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin by Archer Butler Hulbert