Cuando ambos beligerantes quedaban ya rendidos de la refriega, empezaba la parte galante de la fiesta.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Her look was clear and truthful and she did not advance this astonishing statement as if it was astonishing, but quite as a matter of fact.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Nakapartída kug barátu kaáyung isdà, I managed to buy a big quantity of fish cheaply.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The children were regarded as being quite an addition to his wealth.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

So the king was more easily reconciled to him than one could have imagined, as esteeming mildness a better quality in a king than anger, and knowing that moderation is more becoming in great men than passion.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

I flatter myself that I am becoming quite efficient in economizing"—Susan had taken to using certain German terms with killing effect—"but one can exercise a little gumption on the quiet now and then.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Show your appreciation by quiet attention to every note, and avoid every exclamation or gesture.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

How could Tiretta succeed in committing this crime with my aunt, which I think would only be possible with the consent of the party attacked, but quite impossible without it; and this makes me believe that if the thing was done it was done with her hearty good will.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He also proves to us that a naturally noble nature, if it be not properly disciplined, will produce many good and bad qualities together, just as a rich field, if not properly tilled, will produce both weeds and good fruit.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

This shows the Royal Arms within a bordure quarterly ermine and counter-compony or and azure, debruised by a baton sinister argent, an inescutcheon quarterly gules and vairé, or and vert [possibly hinting at the Blount arms of his mother, barry nebuly or and sable], over all a lion rampant argent, on a chief azure a tower between two stags' heads caboshed argent, attired or.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

'Souls and bodies' quoted my grandfather, 'hath he divorced three.'"
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 70, No. 434, December, 1851 by Various

Numbers had fled to a broad quay, newly built of solid marble, where they deemed themselves in perfect safety; when, as if by magic, it suddenly sank, the water rushing into the vast chasm it had formed, drawing within its vortex, like a whirlpool, numbers of boats and small vessels, crowded with unfortunate wretches, who fancied that it was from the earth alone they had cause to fear.
— from The Prime Minister by William Henry Giles Kingston

And now it has reached the bottom and become quite large?
— from The Adventures of M. D'Haricot by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston

I cared nothing at all for that ovation—was thankful when the din ceased and I could go home and be quiet.
— from Wayfaring Men: A Novel by Edna Lyall

For they've been to the Lakes, and the Torrible Zone, And the hills of the Chankly Bore.'" From the pedestrian excursion of the Table and the Chair, we cannot resist making a brief quotation, though in this, as in every case, the inability to quote the drawings also is a sad drawback:—
— from Nonsense Books by Edward Lear

All being quiet, and the cattle brought close to the camp, I added a third man to the morning watch, and no more was heard of the natives."
— from Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell

At last, when they were so hungry and weary that they felt they must drop in their tracks and fall asleep, they came suddenly to a place where the troubled rush of waters ceased; where the river spread out into a broad, quiet, icebound lake.
— from The Purple Flame A Mystery Story for Girls by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

VII NEWTON'S PRINCIPIA Great Newton's self, to whom the world's in debt, Owed to School Mistress sage his Alphabet; But quickly wiser than his Teacher grown, Discover'd properties to her unknown; Of A plus B, or minus , learn'd the use, Known Quantities from unknown to educe; And made—no doubt to that old dame's surprise— The Christ-Cross-Row his Ladder to the skies.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Charles Lamb

Amadea was a beautiful queen who fell in love with a king not of her own country; he loved her too, and married her, and took her home.
— from Roman Legends: A collection of the fables and folk-lore of Rome by Rachel Harriette Busk

This drew forth a "Be quiet!" in Tuscan from Peppino within.
— from Dorothy, and Other Italian Stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson