Le Pole insieme, al cominciar del giorno, Si muovono a scaldar le fredde piume: Poi altre vanno vià senza ritorno, Altre rivolgon sè, onde son mosse, Ed altre roteando fan soggiorno.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

5 On spécule sur tout, même sur la famine —People speculate on everything, even on famine.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

the Reverend Mr. Hayes has published, with the SIGNIFICANT title of 'Sermons LEFT FOR PUBLICATION by the Reverend John Taylor, LL.D.,' our conviction will be complete.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and when I draw up the curtain this time, reader, you must fancy you see a room in the George Inn at Millcote, with such large figured papering on the walls as inn rooms have; such a carpet, such furniture, such ornaments on the mantelpiece, such prints, including a portrait of George the Third, and another of the Prince of Wales, and a representation of the death of Wolfe.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Flour-dammes , sb. ladies’ flower, perhaps Dame’s violet or Dame-wort, Hesperis matronalis (Britten’s Plant-names); Mr. Small suggests ‘damask rose,’ S3.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Coch y berllan, a redstart Perllys, n. sweet herbs; parsley Peron, n. a cause; the Lord Peror, n. melodist, musician Peroriad, n. a producing of melody; a playing of music Peroriaeth, n. melody; idle talk Perioriaethu, v. to make a melody Peroriant, n. practice of music Perorio, to practise music Persain, n. euphony Pert, a. smart, spruce, pert Pertedd, n. smartness, pertness Perten, n. a smart little girl Pertu, v. to smarten, to trim Pertyn, n. a smart little fellow Perth, n. a thorn bush; a brake Perthen, n. a thorn bush Perthyn, n. what is appropriate: v. to appertain, to belong Perthynad, n. an appertaining Perthynas, n. relation; appurtenance Perthynasol, a. appropriate Perthynasoli, v. to render appropriate Perthynasu, v. to render appropriate Perthynedigaeth, appropriation Perthynol, a. pertaining, relative Peru, v. to cause; to effect; to bid Perwg, n. hurdy-gurdy Perwr, n. a causer; one who orders Perwraidd, n. liquorice root Perwydd, n. pear-trees Perwyl, n. occasion, purpose Perwylus, a. eventual, incidental Perydd, n. a causator, a causer Peryf, n. a causer; a sovereign Peryg, n. what is extreme Perygl, n. danger, peril Perygledd, n. danger Perygliad, n. an endangering Peryglu, v. to run into danger Peryglus, a. dangerous, perilous Pes, conj.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

simper James, leave your fair Killie dames, There's a holier chase in your view: I'll lay on your head, that the pack you'll soon lead, For puppies like you there's but few, Simper James!^7 For puppies like you there's but few.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

en avoir des e-books, à moins que ce ne soit l'effet Nasdaq d'avant la chute, des investissements en valorisation boursière, sur le futur, paraît-il.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

and she was a spoilt lady from Petersburg or Moscow....
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Ovid tells the poem it should look for Pompeius, and includes a short description of some of the consular functions Pompeius might be carrying out (1-26).
— from The Last Poems of Ovid by Ovid

"Nought, nought," said the King, hastily; and something like fear passed over his placid countenance; "save, indeed," he added, with a reluctant tone, as that of a man who obeys his conscience against his inclination, "that I would pray thee to keep this child pure to threshold and altar, as is meet for one whom our Lady, the Virgin, in due time, will elect to her service."
— from Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

He has something like forty palaces, costing from one half-million to a million dollars each; some of them, which he built, he has never occupied, many of them are empty, many of those of his predecessors, which would lodge a thousand people, are going to decay; and yet he is building new ones all the time.
— from My Winter on the Nile Eighteenth Edition by Charles Dudley Warner

But that was no pretext, he also always asserted, as I shall again have to notice, for roughness and offence, for a high voice and a low hand; still less for playing censor, lecturer, or hector at once.
— from Disraeli: A Study in Personality and Ideas by Walter Sichel

Great ships like floating palaces rode up and down the river.
— from Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade

Acknowledgment is made to Messrs Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd for supplying the block of the Boswell portrait; to Messrs George Routledge & Sons Ltd for permission to reproduce the pictures facing p. 88 from Doran's Annals of the English Stage (ed.
— from The Story of Doctor Johnson; Being an Introduction to Boswell's Life by S. C. (Sydney Castle) Roberts

let them sink or swim, So he may gratify without control The mean resentment of his selfish soul; Let freedom perish, if, to freedom true, In the same ruin Wilkes may perish too.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

The haughty Earl treated Legrand with scurrilous language for putting such things into the Prince’s head.
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 1 (of 4) by Horace Walpole