abrazar, to embrace; —se, to embrace each other.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Vinteuil's soul, at least in the earlier stages, the evil element was probably not unmixed.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

All these things, following the bustle and change of the [33] day, result, through their novelty, in a movement throughout the entire system that extends even to the brain functions.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

To further this end, Sir Thomas Elder equipped Mr. Lewis, who, it will be remembered, did such good service on Colonel Warburton's expedition, and under his leadership an expedition was undertaken which resulted in much valuable information being gained.
— from The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Ernest Favenc

If Herakles had any equivalent in Latin, it would necessarily begin with S, and not with H, as septa corresponds to epta, sequor to epomai, etc.
— from Myths and Myth-Makers Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology by John Fiske

Soundings made off Martinique after the explosion showed that earthquake effects of much importance had taken place under the sea bottom, which had been lifted in some places and had sunk in others.
— from The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire by Charles Morris

The mountains of Armenia and the course of the Euphrates separated the Eastern Empire from that of Persia.
— from Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley

This chapter of Dion allows us also to affirm that he who first realised the value of Gaul and opened the eyes of Augustus, was no great personage of the Roman aristocracy whose names are written in such lofty characters on the pages of history, whose images are yet found in marble and bronze among the museums of Europe; no one of those who ruled the Empire and therefore according to reason and justice had the responsibility of governing it well: it was, instead, an obscure freedman, whose ability the masters of the Empire scorned to exploit except as to-day a peasant uses the forces of his ox, hardly deigning to look at him and yet deeming all his labour but the owner's natural right.
— from Characters and events of Roman History by Guglielmo Ferrero

2. The dog is unusually small, about the size of an ordinary cur: he is usually particoloured, amongst which, the black, white, brown, and brindle are the colours most predominant: the head is long, the nose pointed, the eyes small, the ears erect and pointed, like those of the wolf: the hair is short and smooth, excepting on the tail, where it is long and straight, like that of the ordinary cur-dog.
— from History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. II To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. by William Clark

But in spite of instances of bungling, the evidence shows that every effort has been made to keep the war as humane as possible.
— from The War in South Africa, Its Cause and Conduct by Arthur Conan Doyle

But what makes me maddest of all, sir, is to see that everybody sees these evils, except just the men who can cure them—the squires and the clergy.’
— from Yeast: a Problem by Charles Kingsley