Sus maneras eran de perfecto cortesano, y revelaba escrupuloso y detallado esmero en todo lo concerniente a su persona.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

UNE LEÇON DE PHILOSOPHIE Un villageois fit étudier son fils, qui vint le visiter lorsqu'il étudiait en philosophie; son père lui ayant demandé de mettre cuire six œufs, deux pour lui-même, deux pour sa mère, et deux pour lui, le fils, pensant lui donner un plat de sophisme, n'en mit que trois.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

sac , m. , espèce de poche ouverte par le haut.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

And in the 10th year of the same Edward, Henry Wales being mayor, a great controversy did arise between the said mayor, and the merchants of the Haunce of Almaine, about the reparations of Bishopsgate, then likely to fall, for that the said merchants enjoyed divers privileges in respect of maintaining the said gate, which they now denied to repair; for the appeasing of which controversy the king sent his writ to the treasurer and barons [
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

It sees in every form a metaphysical cause, which leads in ornamental art to those entwined, confused, monstrous, and bizarre combinations, which mar symmetry , mock eurythmy , distort proportion , have no direction , and, trying to express the inexpressible, have no expression at all.
— from A Manual of the Historical Development of Art Pre-Historic—Ancient—Classic—Early Christian; with Special Reference to Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, and Ornamentation by G. G. (Gustavus George) Zerffi

For special guests, the chefs served more elaborate dishes: pheasant, quail, javelina, venison, dove, rabbit.
— from The Haciendas of Mexico: An Artist's Record by Paul Alexander Bartlett

[42] Sources: Mémoires et documents publiés par la Société d’histoire et d’archæologie de Genève (especially vols.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay