no se puede vadear el río sino por el cerrillo de 20 los Lirios.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Per mille fraudes doctosque dolos ejicitur, apud sociam paupertatem ejusque cultores divertens in eorum sinu et tutela deliciatur.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Este es también el sitio para el corral de aves domésticas y los pesebres para los caballitos
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

—Sí; pero en cantidad decreciente.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Su representante debe ser persona educada, capaz de [12] comportarse como caballero; deberá llevar cartas de presentación que le abran las puertas de los negociantes más conocidos, de los clubs y bancos, de las cámaras de comercio y otras organizaciones e instituciones mercantiles.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Il étoit enveloppé d'une étoffe de soie peinte et chargée de lettres morisque, et un chameau le portoit, couvert lui-même également de soie.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

Dangerously explosive with sulphur, phosphorus, etc.— Caution: Do not apply in substance or in oint., lest toxic symptoms appear!
— from Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica by Merck & Co.

Si cela est, ce ne peut être que 12,000 hommes de l’armée de Castille qui ont évacué Logroño, et qui ne sont pas en cas de faire tête à 3,000 ou 4,000 de vos gens’ ( Nap. Corresp.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809 From the Treaty of Fontainbleau to the Battle of Corunna by Charles Oman

“Schematis de fide catholica conclusio, quæ incipit ab his verbis: Itaque supremi Pastoralis , etc., cum de eâ in ultimâ Congregatione generali non satis explicite actum fuerit, adhuc debet subjici Patrum suffragiis, antequam ad ferenda suffragia de toto Capite iv.
— from Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger

Forster in a very able speech cleverly keeping close to a consideration of the effect of mediation on England , advanced the idea that such a step would not end the war but would merely intensify it and so prolong English commercial distress.
— from Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams

Whilst Paris belle in costliest silk array'd, Runs up, and walks in stateliest parade; Each comely damsel insolently kens; (So silver pheasants strut 'midst modest hens!)
— from Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various

É sta sempre instituto del religiosissimo stato nostro in scontar li heretici et extirpar cussi detestando crimine, siccome nella promission del Serenissimo Principe et capitular de conseieri nei primi capituli se leze.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

I had two dogs dere en somebody poison em cause dey tell me somebody do dat.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

If these factors are strongly present, employers can do little to stop the [Pg 39] movement of their employees.
— from The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons by William Z. Foster