Anna Karenina vocabulary

Vis-à-vis the rest of the world, the thirteen American states could act as a unit, so long as their league held together and each state consented to be represented by Congress.

Akhil Reed Amar. America's Constitution: A Biography (2005)

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She only sat down when she felt too tired and begged for a rest. But as she was dancing the last quadrille with one of the tiresome young men whom she could not refuse, she chanced to be vis-a-vis with Vronsky and Anna.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina

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Joseph mumbled indistinctly in the depths of the cellar, but gave no intimation of ascending; so his master dived down to him, leaving me vis-à-vis the ruffianly bitch and a pair of grim shaggy sheep-dogs, who shared with her a jealous guardianship over all my movements.

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)

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—there is not a greater difference between a single-horse chair and madam Pompadour’s vis-a-vis; than betwixt a single amour, and an amour thus nobly doubled, and going upon all four, prancing throughout a grand drama—

Laurence Sterne. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759)