—A las tres, a las tres me las llevo—afirmó Pepe.—Pero sepamos una cosa; ¿por qué se reían ustedes de mí 15 cuando estaba en la ventana del Casino?
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

10 Lleváronles al comedor de la casa (pieza de rarísimo uso), del cual se salía a un terrado, donde había algunos tiestos de flores
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

When different individuals were sent to different places under pretence of the business of the service, a considerable number were put out of the way; which multitude the other consul detained in Rome under different pretences.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Beschränkungen subject to these limitations unter diesen Regeln under these rules unter diesen Umständen under the circumstances unter Eid on oath unter Eid under oath unter eine Kategorie fallen fall in a category unter einer Bedingung subject to some condition unter Einhaltung einer Frist von 5 Tagen subject to a term of 5 days unter falschem Namen under a false name
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

-- une décision , rendre une décision.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Otherwise the girl would have been rung up, distress and all.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

“I assure you I did not mean to reckon up debits and credits,” he began, “and if you—” “I don’t understand your condescension,” said Hippolyte.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

By that he means that I have avoided the rather unphilosophical diffuseness of Amelius, and have imitated the (concise) style of Plotinos.
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 1 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus

In the very purlieus of this great nest, or sty of sensuality, within sight and touch of its pollutions, did he keep his army fiercely reined up, daring and defying them, as it were, to taste of the banquet whose very odor they inhaled.
— from The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey

During the fourth and fifth dynasties, or some three or four thousand years before Christ, Egypt and the Egyptians do, as we have said, rise up distinctly out of the region of mere conjecture.
— from The Dawn of History: An Introduction to Pre-Historic Study by C. F. (Charles Francis) Keary

And again, p. 28; Apres, dit-il [Luther,] que j’eus surmonté tous les argumens qu’on proposoit, il en restoit un dernier qu’à peine je pus surmonter par le secours de Jesus Christ avec une extrême difficulté & beaucoup d’angoisse; c’est qu’il falloit écouter l’Eglise .—One sees for what purpose M. Bossuet quotes these passages, and others of the same kind, from the writings of Luther.
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 5 (of 8) by Richard Hurd

Donald Macbeath, an infirm and bed-ridden old man, had the house unroofed over him, and was in that state exposed to the wind and rain until death put a period to his sufferings.
— from The History of the Highland Clearances Second Edition, Altered and Revised by Alexander Mackenzie

In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and beshawled, bediamonded women.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

Just as the body was being placed in the ground the other woman’s husband came running up, dressed, as far as anyone could see, in no clothes at all.
— from The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Other brandy or whisky or rum ’ud do, but brandy for choice.”
— from Miriam: A Tale of Pole Moor and the Greenfield Hills by D. F. E. Sykes

After ten minutes hard rowing we got close to the destroyer and she, making a big circle at fairly high speed, came along fast as if she was going to run us down, with the idea of baffling the aim of the enemy.
— from Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 by Ian Hamilton