and then she uses such dreadful expressions in describing it: she must have learned it from the grooms.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

La línea Clyde ofrece un servicio de excursión en torno de [36]
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

ANT: Expose, unveil, strip, denude, exaggerate.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Igitur Sulla, uti supra dictum est, postquam in Africam atque in castra Mari cum equitatu venit, rudis antea et ignarus belli, solertissumus omnium in paucis 15 tempestatibus factus est.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

tan grotesco a los impíos ojos de usted, salió de esta casa, y que los pantalones del Niño obra son juntamente de la maravillosa aguja y de la acendrada piedad de su prima de usted, Rosarito, que nos está oyendo.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

"Don't use such dreadful expressions," replied Meg from the depths of the veil in which she had shrouded herself like a nun sick of the world.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Where no accident or emergency intervenes, they assemble upon stated days, either, when the moon changes, or is full: since they believe such seasons to be the most fortunate for beginning all transactions.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

And I maintained that Thy unchangeable substance did err upon constraint, rather than confess that my changeable substance had gone astray voluntarily, and now, in punishment, lay in error.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

It had taken us seven days, exclusive of the Sabbath, to travel from Morocco to Mazagan, the distance being about 120 miles."
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 2 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady

"thorbonest." [382] " ... tandemque P. Ramum diu quaesitum vicariorum coryphaeus unus offendit, eique veniam frustra deprecanti vulnus in brachio infligit, et plurimis aliis ictibus postea confoditur.... E fenestra spiritum trahens praecipitatur in aream, pedibusque fune devinctis per urbis sordes devolvitur et capite a chirurgo quodam truncato cadaver in ...
— from The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Christopher Marlowe

Visualis CD recipit sectiones perpendicularium, quæ deserviunt pro elevatione figuræ sequentis, ut sæpius dictum est.
— from Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc. In English and Latin: Containing a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture by Andrea Pozzo

When he was animated, he was noisy and heard at a great distance; but whilst he loudly inveighed, a smile was spread over his countenance, and in the midst of his warmth he used some diverting expression which made all his hearers break out into a loud laugh.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 07 by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There was no time to prepare the volunteers for the ordeal, no opportunities for testing their courage in skirmishes, for training them to advance upon such dangerous enemies as the Scots, or to retire before them in good order if they found them too strongly posted to be attacked with any prospect of success.
— from Yorkshire Battles by Edward Lamplough

H 8 r :—] Explicit sentenciosa atq ue studio | digna expositio venerabilis Alexan|dri sup er terciu m lib rum de anima.
— from The Early Oxford Press A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations by Falconer Madan

He sketched the early history of the United States, dwelling especially upon the proceedings of the first Congress after the Constitution, and pronouncing a high eulogy upon the great men to whose hands the legislation of that important era was intrusted.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIII.—April, 1852.—Vol. IV. None by Various

The only child of that union, Samuel Davis, enlisted at the age of seventeen as a private soldier in the War of the Revolution.
— from The Real Jefferson Davis by Landon Knight

At Deus omnipotens, Christi justissimus ultor, Sanguine, dixit, erit lancea tincta tuo.
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird