BEFORE she had time to find a new situation, Christie received a note from Miss Tudor, saying that hearing she had left Mrs. Saltonstall she wanted to offer her the place of companion to an invalid girl, where the duties were light and the compensation large.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Para solfas con alevosía no sirve Cristóbal Ramos.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The cruelty of Mrs. Jennings no language, within her reach in her moments of happiest eloquence, could have expressed; and now she could reproach her only by the tears which streamed from her eyes with passionate violence—a reproach, however, so entirely lost on its object, that after many expressions of pity, she withdrew, still referring her to the letter of comfort.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Eam ob causam Athanasius, non sine comitatu, Roman petiit, pluresque annos ibi haesit.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Severndale had held only sad memories for him since that day, nearly ten years ago, in spite of the little girl growing up there, cared for by the old housekeeper and the servants, some of whom had been on the estate as long as Neil Stewart could remember.
— from Peggy Stewart at School by Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson

A new stitch called running and back stitch is very useful for seams (Fig. 25).
— from Clothing and Health: An Elementary Textbook of Home Making by Anna M. (Anna Maria) Cooley

"Then we'll start and travel all night," said Captain Ross.
— from Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove by Laura Lee Hope

" The hurt was bathed and plastered up, and no serious consequence resulted; but there are not, I fancy, many boys less than seven years of age who would have continued the game, as the duke did, with the blood trickling from a wound.
— from Agnes Strickland's Queens of England, Vol. 2. (of 3) Abridged and Fully Illustrated by Agnes Strickland