A hundred times in every week, some new most paltry exhibition of that narrow-minded and injurious Party Spirit, which is the Simoom of America, sickening and blighting everything of wholesome life within its reach, was forced upon my notice; but I never turned my back upon it with feelings of such deep disgust and measureless contempt, as when I crossed the threshold of this madhouse.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Santisima n The Blessed Virgin Mary. Santa — n mildly profane exclamation of discomfiture.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"For God's sake, Sancho, no more proverbs!" exclaimed Don Quixote; "it seems to me thou art becoming sicut erat again; speak in a plain, simple, straight-forward way, as I have often told thee, and thou wilt find the good of it."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And she smiled, as well as she could, and said:— “Now, my pets, everything is settled.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

82 Margaret Brown Klapthor Presentation Pieces In the Museum of History and Technology As a social document, the collection of presentation pieces, mostly silver, in the United States National Museum provides evidence of the taste and craftsmanship in America at various periods from the mid-18th century to the 1920’s.
— from Presentation Pieces in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper No. 47 [Smithsonian Institution] by Margaret Brown Klapthor