Era muy tarde para seguir las operaciones, y, además, las tropas estaban rendidas de cansancio.
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López
The fellows behind it starved it to death and let the equipment run down while they juggled the paper and skinned the dear public.”
— from Local Color by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
" George and Lucy that evening reached Dover, prettiest of American towns.
— from Frances Waldeaux: A Novel by Rebecca Harding Davis
That we must look to his lyrics rather than to his longer epic writings, in order to discover the poet's deepest interests, is nowhere more clearly evidenced than in the following reference to his "Savonarola," in a letter to Emilie Reinbeck during the progress of the work: "Savonarola wirkte zumeist als Prediger, darum muss ich in meinem Gedicht ihn vielfach predigen und dogmatisieren lassen, welches in vierfüssigen doppeltgereimten Iamben sehr schwierig ist.
— from Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry by Wilhelm Alfred Braun
At length the expedition really did start.
— from History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII. by Philip Ainsworth Means
Author of "American Literature" "The English Religious Drama," etc.
— from Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
When at last the employment Ralegh desired came, the opening was made by Gilbert.
— from Sir Walter Ralegh: A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing
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