( S. cordifolia , Blanco; Cavallium urens , Schott. & Endl.) Nom.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Pepe Rey estaba un si es no es turbado a causa del giro que diera su tía a una vana disputa festiva en la que tomó parte tan sólo por acalorar un poco la conversación.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

" A plain man like Godfrey Cass, speaking under some embarrassment, necessarily blunders on words that are coarser than his intentions, and that are likely to fall gratingly on susceptible feelings.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

My natural instinct made me almost unconsciously strain every nerve to regain the parapet, and—I had nearly said miraculously—I succeeded.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un indiscret ami; / Mieux vaudroit un sage ennemi —Nothing more dangerous than an imprudent friend; a prudent enemy would be better.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

And then, the foremost of all virtues is wisdom—what the Greeks call σοφία; for by prudence, which they call φρόνησις, we understand something else, namely, the practical knowledge of things to be sought for and of things to be avoided.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Eques etiam, auctore L. Cominio tribuno militum, qui aliquotiens impetu capto perrumpere non poterat hostium agmen, 5 detraxit frenos equis atque ita concitatos calcaribus permisit , ut sustinere eos nulla vis posset; per arma, per viros late stragem dedere; secutus pedes impetum equitum turbatis hostibus intulit signa .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

[8] un sí es no es de, a suspicion of ; a little ; a touch of .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

“When we were young, we didn’t make so much disturbance.” “Neither would you get up so early nor would the old folks have been such sleepy-heads,” retorted little Sinang.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Thayer 34 Union Square East, New York, December 5, 1900.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton Jesse Hendrick

First, they object against the particular preacher: his manner, his delivery, his voice, are disagreeable; his style and expression are flat and slow, sometimes improper and absurd; the matter is heavy, trivial, and insipid, sometimes despicable and perfectly ridiculous; or else, on the other side, he runs up into unintelligible speculation, empty notions, and abstracted flights, all clad in words above usual understandings.
— from Three Prayers and Sermons by Jonathan Swift

He hints in his introduction that he has another volume in preparation, in which he will introduce to us several entirely new C.B.E.'s, besides carrying on the histories (in the familiar manner of our modern novelists) of many of those with whom we have already made friends.
— from Not that it Matters by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

Therefore, what is not manifest upon sufficient evidence no one shall make public or declare for truth; and in short, whatever is secret should be allowed to remain secret, or, at any rate, should be secretly reproved, as we shall hear.
— from Martin Luther's Large Catechism, translated by Bente and Dau by Martin Luther

You see, the United States Exhibit number we do not have and I do not know whether it would be better to state the United States Exhibit number first and then give us the PS number; I am not sure it would.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 3 by Various

I wake up sometimes even now dreaming of it, and I am not a fanciful sort of fellow.
— from With Edged Tools by Henry Seton Merriman

The man will not discharge his shot nearly at right angles to the true line of fire unless some entirely new cause comes in, as by some unusual circumstance having distracted his attention, or by his having had some spasmodic seizure.
— from The Logic of Chance, 3rd edition An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability, With Especial Reference to Its Logical Bearings and Its Application to Moral and Social Science and to Statistics by John Venn