Caballuco, alzando los hombros, miraba a Rey con expresión de la más completa indiferencia.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Sostenía además relaciones con excelentes damas de Madrid, y por este medio consiguió
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

It was a splendid panorama of tropical vegetation, rounded knolls, picturesque mounds, green patches, and rugged cliffs, extending downwards to Bounty Bay with its fringe of surf, and beyond—all round—the sleeping sea.
— from The Lonely Island: The Refuge of the Mutineers by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

You will take entire charge of the agency, and at your earliest convenience forward to us a report covering every detail of the conditions there."
— from The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop by Hamlin Garland

He is still hale and hearty, and makes a regular call every day at the home of Mrs. Duncan.
— from Little By Little; or, The Cruise of the Flyaway by Oliver Optic

Mabyn, too timid to undertake so long a journey without ample supplies, or perhaps too obstinate to go, they remained on the island; and Rina came every day for food.
— from Two on the Trail: A Story of the Far Northwest by Hulbert Footner

"Un bas-relief d'un travail ancien, dont le style ressemble à celui des figures peintes sur les vases dits archaïques, représente Curtius engagé dans son marais; le cheval baisse la tête et flaire le marécage, qui est indiqué par des roseaux.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

When the appointments were at last made, Tyrconnel was Deputy, and every county was committed to the charge of a Roman Catholic except Donegal, where one Hamilton was pricked by mistake for another.
— from Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 3 (of 3), 1660-1690 by Richard Bagwell

Judged by this standard, and viewed from the standpoint of to-day, the police reforms inaugurated between 1829 and 1856 will be found to justify all reasonably conceived expectations, disappointing as they no doubt appeared to over-sanguine extremists at the time.
— from A History of Police in England by W. L. Melville (William Lauriston Melville) Lee