por no ser indispensable para la buena inteligencia de esta relación.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

And now, a few minutes later, she was announcing that he had every reason to be angry with her and hurt, and that she herself had been—the language was unusual, but it did express real penitence—a mean dog.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Wilson, I give you my word; I believe if dad ever really sees Jack as I see him or you see him, then something dreadful will happen.
— from The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey

But the river was 200 feet in breadth (only half the breadth of the Zab), above their breasts in depth, extremely rapid, and with a bottom full of slippery stones; insomuch that they could not hold their shields in the proper position, from the force of the stream; while if they lifted the shields above their heads, they were exposed defenceless to the arrows of the satrap's troops.
— from The Two Great Retreats of History by George Grote

Employers are fighting trades-unionism, because it denies equal rights to their employers.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

Nor was it only that I had confidence in our cause, both in itself, and in its controversial force, but besides, I despised every rival system of doctrine and its arguments.
— from Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

Color: sides near Raffia (11 E 6) (capitalized color names and designators are of Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1930) overlaid with black, the general effect being grayish buff (13 G 6); back darker, moderately to heavily overlaid with black; indistinct dark eye ring; underparts whitish, fur basally gray except patch of fur pure white to base almost always present on upper throat; dark line around mouth; tail bicolor, black above, whitish below; feet white to ankles.
— from A New Subspecies of Wood Rat (Neotoma mexicana) from Colorado by Robert B. Finley

But the river was two hundred feet in breadth (only half the breadth of the Zab), above their breasts in depth, extremely rapid, and with a bottom full of slippery stones; insomuch that they could not hold their shields in the proper position, from the force of the stream, while if they lifted the shields above their heads, they were exposed defenceless to the arrows of the satrap’s troops.
— from History of Greece, Volume 09 (of 12) by George Grote

But I delivered each ruling with a resonance--it were better called an impudence--which had an air of authority.
— from Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography by Henry Watterson