Consequently the Viennese Court sent them to Trieste with a strong recommendation to the governor, and they had been there for the past six months.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The royal ladies in the country of the Vatsagulmas cause such men as are suitable to enter [135] into the harem along with their female messengers.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

"You are very cruel," said her sister, "you will not let me smile, and are provoking me to it every moment."
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

v [c16] say or communicate s.t. indirectly.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Cadêbant noctis umbrae, dum Ibat per vîcum Alpicum Gelû nivequ(e) adolêscêns, Vêxillum cum signô ferêns, Excelsior!
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The wind blew hard all last night from the S. E. verry Cold Set out early the wind Still hard passed a large Island in the middle of the river (1) opsd.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But he soon felt it very cold, standing by the water; he turned and went towards Y. Prospect.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I may here mention two very curious sexual peculiarities occurring in seals, because they have been supposed by some writers to affect the voice.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

The blastoderm in Pristiurus and Scyllium grows very rapidly, and has by this stage attained a very considerable size; but in Torpedo its growth is very slow.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

And indeed the management of nature might teach him this; for though, when using violent contrasts, she frequently makes her gloom somewhat monotonous, the moment she gives up her vivid color, and depends upon her desolation, that moment she begins to steal the greens into her sea-gray, and the browns and yellows into her cloud-gray, and the expression of variously tinted light through all.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) by John Ruskin

The cloak itself was of a violet colour, similar in cut to our own.
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 1 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady

Perhaps it was her voice coming so soon after the flash, but there seemed something too saccharin in its tone to Rose Standish.
— from The Hospital Murders by Means Davis

Sophocles calls the Sibyls δαφνηφαγος, laurel-eaters; and thus Tibullus, Vera cano, sic usque sacras innoxia lauros Vescar, et æternùm sit mihi virginitas.
— from Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

When the verb contains some definite meaning in terms of action, for instance reads , we get a verbal predicate .
— from The Montessori Elementary Material The Advanced Montessori Method by Maria Montessori

She had never seen a sinner like this before; but instinctively she felt that when manhood is lost woman's time has come. " Voyons, chéri ," she said, "what is it all about?"
— from Mr. Claghorn's Daughter by Hilary Trent

Her hands lingered fondly among the tresses of her hair, and gathering them up beneath her pretty Valenciennes cap, she smiled to see its gossamer shadows fall upon her forehead, giving the whole face a Madonna-like purity.
— from Mabel's Mistake by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens