On last New Year's eve I was reading the book, and had lost myself in it so completely, that I forgot my usual New Year's diversion, namely, the wild hunt to Amack.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

[25] unirá Nueva York con Buenos Aires?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

ugbus n young and unopened palm frond.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Thus Shah Abbas the Great, being warned by his astrologers in the year 1591 that a serious danger impended over him, attempted to avert the omen by abdicating the throne and appointing a certain unbeliever named Yusoofee, probably a Christian, to reign in his stead.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

'Finally and unreservedly no?' 'Yes.' 'Fledgeby, my hand.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The Christian Union , N. Y. City.
— from The Alden Catalogue of Choice Books, May 30, 1889 by John B. (John Berry) Alden

Heaven help us, nor you nor I nor any one may transform of any personal force this bitter time, this piercing, cruel day of frost and sun.
— from Chivalry by James Branch Cabell

“In my ignorance I thought we must wait for blossoms until next year; but it appears that wonders can be brought all ready to bloom for one from nursery gardens, and can be made to grow with care—and daring—and passionate affection.
— from The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett

"We-ell, this ain't but the middle uh November, yuh want to recollect," he said.
— from The Phantom Herd by B. M. Bower

And I agree, which is why this freeze won't take effect until next year, when the economy is stronger.
— from State of the Union Addresses of Barack Obama, 2009-2016 by Barack Obama

Maj. James H. Cole , a resident at No. 987 Lawndale Avenue, was born in Utica, New York, and was fifty-three years of age.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack

For all round this beautiful Establishment, or Oasis of Purity, intended for the Devil's regiments of the line, lay continents of dingy poor and dirty dwellings, where the unfortunate not yet enlisted into that Force were struggling manifoldly,—in their workshops, in their marble-yards and timber-yards and tan-yards, in their close cellars, cobbler-stalls, hungry garrets, and poor dark trade-shops with red-herrings and tobacco-pipes crossed in the window,—to keep the Devil out-of-doors, and not enlist with him.
— from Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle