I SOW’S WOMB, CRACKLINGS, UDDER, TENDERLOIN, TAILS AND FEET VULVÆ STERILES, CALLUM LUMBELLI COTICULÆ ET UNGELLÆ
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Treating poor self-complacent friends you see Comme le Chat does la Souris?
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Longe , sb. lung; longen , pl. , PP; lunges , SkD, Cath.; longes , C, PP.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

keep off, stave off, ward off; obviate; avert, antevert|; turn aside, draw off, prevent, forefend, nip in the bud; retard, slacken, check, let; counteract, countercheck[obs3]; preclude, debar, foreclose, estop[Law]; inhibit &c. 761; shackle &c. (restrain) 751; restrict. obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock; block, block up; choke off; belay, barricade; block the way, bar the way, stop the way; forelay[obs3]; dam up &c. (close) 261; put on the brake &c. n.; scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel; put a stop to &c. 142; traverse, contravene; interrupt, intercept; oppose &c. 708; hedge in, hedge round; cut off; inerclude|. interpose, interfere, intermeddle &c. 682.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

lacunis , in allusion to the spot called Lacus Curtius (marked by a circular pavement) in the Forum which served as a memorial ( monimenta ) of his heroic sacrifice.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

[112] OUR KITTENS Our kittens have the softest fur, And the sweetest little purr, And such little velvet paws With such cunning little claws, And blue eyes, just like the sky!
— from Child Songs of Cheer by Evaleen Stein

"In a London tram most faces don't look too cheerful, but with this sky overhead people are simply chirping like crickets.
— from The Jolliest School of All by Angela Brazil

Rose Flowers, or Stillwater, or Rockharrt—whichever name she could legally claim—was a fraud.
— from For Woman's Love by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

The cañon widens below; the light is stronger there, and, bending double, throwing quick glances at one another, then from sheer force of Indian habit shading their eyes with their brown hands as they peer to the front; exchanging noiseless signals; creeping like cats from rock to rock; leaping without faintest sound of the moccasined foot across the bubbling waters, four swarthy scamps are coming stealthily on.
— from Foes in Ambush by Charles King

Just as the horses were ready, and we were about starting, Colonel Lawrence came over and rode down to his headquarters.
— from Reports of the Committee on the Conduct of the War Fort Pillow Massacre. Returned Prisoners. by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War

Instead of a single cone like Cotopaxi, it has a group of cones, some of which are very pointed.
— from Wonders of Creation: A Descriptive Account of Volcanoes and Their Phenomena by Anonymous

and there were cows, and sometimes cunning little calves, and everything just nice and splendid at Deacon Brown’s, till you couldn’t think of anything he didn’t have.
— from The Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House by Margaret Sidney