[9] Por ejemplo, el pan, especialmente el de mejor calidad, [10] se procura en comercios especiales llamados panaderías, que expenden además bizcochos, bollos, y a veces galletas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Now, St. Paul explains Charity as signifying, not alms-giving, which is the modern popular meaning, but love—that love which "suffereth long and is kind;" and when, in our lectures on this subject, we speak of it as the greatest of virtues, because, when Faith is lost and Hope has ceased, it extends "beyond the grave to realms of endless bliss," we there refer it to the Divine Love of our Creator.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

The difficulty is not merely that no mechanism is discovered or acknowledged here, but that the phenomena themselves are ambiguous, and no one seems to know when he speaks of mind whether he means something formal and ideal, like Platonic essences and mathematical truths, or reflection and intelligence, or sensation possessing external causes and objects, or finally that ultimate immediacy or brute actuality which is characteristic of any existence.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

And yet this hinders not, but that our Saviour gave them Power to Preach and Baptize in all parts of the world, supposing they were not by their own lawfull Soveraign forbidden: For to our own Soveraigns Christ himself, and his Apostles have in sundry places expressely commanded us in all things to be obedient.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Bunkum , an American importation, denoting false sentiments in speaking, pretended enthusiasm, &c.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

She's 'poor Ellen' certainly, because she had the bad luck to make a wretched marriage; but I don't see that that's a reason for hiding her head as if she were the culprit.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Ἐκλεκτός , ή, όν, ( ἐκλέγομαι ) chosen out, selected; in N.T., chosen as a recipient of special privilege, elect, Col. 3.12, et al.; specially beloved, Lu. 23.35; possessed of prime excellence, exalted, 1 Ti. 5.21; choice, precious, 1 Pe. 2.4, 6. Ἐκλογή, ῆς, ἡ, (same) the act of choosing out, election; in N.T., election to privilege by divine grace, Ro. 11.5, et al.; ἡ ἐκλογή, the aggregate of those who are chosen, the elect, Ro. 11.7; ἐκλογῆς, equivalent to ἐκλεκτόν, by Hebraism, Ac. 9.15. Ἐκλύομαι, (ἐκλύω, to loosen, debilitate, ἐκ & λύω ) to be weary, exhausted, faint, Mat. 9.36; 15.32. Mar. 8.3.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Within, an uncarpeted hall, of planed boards; opening out of it, a parlor, fifteen feet by fifteen—in some instances five or ten feet larger; ingrain carpet; mahogany center-table; lamp on it, with green-paper shade—standing on a gridiron, so to speak, made of high-colored yarns, by the young ladies of the house, and called a lamp-mat; several books, piled and disposed, with cast-iron exactness, according to an inherited and unchangeable plan; among them, Tupper, much penciled; also, 'Friendship's Offering,' and 'Affection's Wreath,' with their sappy inanities illustrated in die-away mezzotints; also, Ossian; 'Alonzo and Melissa:' maybe 'Ivanhoe:' also 'Album,' full of original 'poetry' of the Thou-hast-wounded-the-spirit-that-loved-thee breed; two or three goody-goody works—'Shepherd of Salisbury Plain,' etc.; current number of the chaste and innocuous Godey's 'Lady's Book,' with painted fashion-plate of wax-figure women with mouths all alike—lips and eyelids the same size—each five-foot woman with a two-inch wedge sticking from under her dress and letting-on to be half of her foot.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

In some places every citizen who was enrolled had a right to attend the public assemblies and to try causes; which if they did not do, a very heavy fine was laid upon them; that through fear of the fine they might avoid being enrolled, as they were then obliged to do neither the one nor the other.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

ch'e` tanto bella da' suoi piedi e` colei che l'aperse e che la punse.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

Without sharp personal experience, can anyone, adequately comprehend what it signifies?
— from An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Albert Leffingwell

For criminal-worship in Sicily, see Peacock, ‘Executed Criminals and Folk-Medicine,’ in Folk-Lore , vii.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

So many of these ruffians, or wandering comedians that were hated, or scorned, pitied, embraced, conventionalized.
— from The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort

As a question becomes more complicated and involved, and extends to a greater number of relations, disagreement of opinion will always be multiplied; not because we are irrational, but because we are finite beings, furnished with different kinds of knowledge, exerting different degrees of attention, one discovering consequences which escape another, none taking in the whole concatenation of causes and effects, and most comprehending but a very small part, each comparing what he observes with a different criterion, and each referring it to a different purpose.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson

I might have used the power heaven gives to parents, And hindered his departure; But somewhat of divine controuled my tongue: For heroes' souls, irregular to us, Yet move like planets in their proper sphere; Performing even course, In paths uneven to beholders' eyes.— [ Pauses a little.
— from Dryden's Works Vol. 08 (of 18) by John Dryden