Indeed, as regards Venice at least, convict rowers are stated to have been first introduced in 1549, previous to which the gangs were of galeotti assoldati .[21]
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

je vais arranger la chose!"
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

rebajaron a oír seriamente los ofrecimientos que éste les hizo de un 20 tesoro porque sobreseyesen su causa, ni el terrible gallego accedió a revelar el paradero del pergamino ni el sitio del tesoro al impertérrito Alcalde de Aldeire, quien, con tal pretensión, tuvo todavía estómago para ir a visitarlo a la capilla en la Cárcel Alta de Granada.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Muy descontentos, resolvieron los obreros abandonar a Roma e irse a un monte cercano, jurando no volver a la ciudad.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Ciutti, si vuelve a llamar, Ciutti, if he knocks again, poke suéltale un pistoletazo.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

La ſua ſcorſa he La Cannella La ſe coglie due volte a lanno coſi e forte lo legnio et le foglie eſſendo verde como la cannella la chiamão caiu mana
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

A Curtain which veiled a large Crucifix offered me a retreat, and I hastened to place myself behind it.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

In the year 1381, William Walworth, then mayor, a most provident, valiant, and learned citizen, did by his arrest of Wat Tyler (a presumptuous rebel, upon whom no man durst lay hands), deliver the king and kingdom from the danger of most wicked traitors, and was for his service knighted in the field.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

One lifts his wing, where dulls the vermeil all Like clotting blood, and shrinks to find it cold, And when she sees its lapse and nerveless fall Clasps her fans, while her sobs ooze through the webbèd gold.
— from New Poems by Francis Thompson

One-Year-Old Robusta Estate, on Sumatra's West Coast Viehoever and Lepper carried on a series of cup tests of robusta , the results as to taste and flavor being distinctly favorable.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Re hypothesis of organic changes in hysterical cases, Roussy and Lhermitte remark in comment upon albuminosis in the cerebrospinal fluid that the albumin is perhaps due (in cases of camptocormia) to the effect upon venous and lymphatic circulation of the spinal curvature.
— from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard

XVIII Jerry Rivas, Mack Vibart and Luther Chen-Wong had been keeping things running on Koshchei.
— from The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper

vitellus , a little calf.—
— from Outline of the history of the English language and literature by Anonymous

It wasn’t bad, either, I almost decided to—to keep it; but soon again I caught a glimpse of the vision, always lurking close.
— from The Man Thou Gavest by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

She had made pathetic efforts to remain cheerful and not to listen to Klara's strident voice and loud, continuous laughter.
— from A Bride of the Plains by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness