comprendieron o sintieron que aquel anacronismo, aquella caridad de otra época, aquel corazón inerme y pacífico que había sobrevivido (p53) casualmente a la guillotina, en nada aminoraba ni deslucía los triunfos del conquistador de Europa, y dejaron a la pobre mujer del pueblo entrar en aquel afortunado portal, que ya nos había traído a la memoria otro portal, no menos afortunado, donde 05 unos sencillos pastores hicieron también ofrendas al Hijo de Dios vivo....
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

You might take a little gentle exercise now."
— from The Burglars' Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles by Henry Augustus Hering

The bird would stand with its beak in the air, listening gravely: every now and then it would bob with its beak down by way of salutation, and it would awkwardly flap its wings in order to regain its balance: then it would suddenly turn round, leaving the cobbler in the middle of a sentence, and fly away with its wing and a bit on to the back of a bench, from whence it would hurl defiance at the dogs of the quarter.
— from Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Romain Rolland

Aphanopteryx leguati Günther & E. Newton, Phil. Trans.
— from Extinct Birds An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those Birds which have become extinct in historical times by Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron

A little girl, employed, no doubt, to watch the house, though she was picking and eating fruit in the garden, heard the steps of a man with creaking shoes on the great square flags of the ground-floor rooms.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

I spoke for him:— "'From that supernal Judge who stirs good thoughts In every breast of strong authority, To look into the blots and stains of right.'" Harry turned to me with a look, grateful, earnest, nobly humble: he longed to believe an oracle in these words, yet hardly dared.
— from Fifteen Days: An Extract from Edward Colvil's Journal by Mary Lowell Putnam

This will have a lasting good effect not only upon the feet, but upon the entire organism.
— from Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease & Cure by Henry Lindlahr

Not such a little girl either, now a nearer view was obtained.
— from Dorian by Nephi Anderson