librar t free, keep free, deliver; líbreme Dios de God forbid that I; —— batalla give battle; —— una batalla engage in a battle; i —— bien come off well.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Adj. hoping &c. v.; in hopes &c. n.; hopeful, confident; secure &c. (certain) 484; sanguine, in good heart, buoyed up, buoyant, elated, flushed, exultant, enthusiastic; heartsome[obs3]; utopian.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

With these magnificent portraits, unworthily confined in a band-box during his seclusion among the market-gardens, he decorates his apartment; and as the Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty wears every variety of fancy dress, plays every variety of musical instrument, fondles every variety of dog, ogles every variety of prospect, and is backed up by every variety of flower-pot and balustrade, the result is very imposing.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

At last they pass out of the body, unwinged, but eager to soar, and thus obtain no mean reward of love and madness.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

When affairs stood thus, one whose name was Sameas, 16 a righteous man he was, and for that reason above all fear, rose up, and said, "O you that are assessors with me, and O thou that art our king, I neither have ever myself known such a case, nor do I suppose that any one of you can name its parallel, that one who is called to take his trial by us ever stood in such a manner before us; but every one, whosoever he be, that comes to be tried by this Sanhedrim, presents himself in a submissive manner, and like one that is in fear of himself, and that endeavors to move us to compassion, with his hair dishevelled, and in a black and mourning garment: but this admirable man Herod, who is accused of murder, and called to answer so heavy an accusation, stands here clothed in purple, and with the hair of his head finely trimmed, and with his armed men about him, that if we shall condemn him by our law, he may slay us, and by overbearing justice may himself escape death.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

For indeed whatsoever proceeds from the gods, deserves respect for their worth and excellency; and whatsoever proceeds from men, as they are our kinsmen, should by us be entertained, with love, always; sometimes, as proceeding from their ignorance, of that which is truly good and bad, (a blindness no less, than that by which we are not able to discern between white and black:) with a kind of pity and compassion also.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

We had taken the precaution of leaving our boots behind us, but, even so, the old boards snapped and creaked beneath our tread.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

In short, though, as to ninety-nine per cent., The lady knew not what her answers meant, Borne up by ever-babbling Fame, An oracle she soon became.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

We had thought at first that dynamite had been used, but evidently you smuggled your much more compact bombs across the desert with you.
— from Farmer by Mack Reynolds

The pithy but characteristic expression said to have been used by Earl St. Vincent, when asked for instructions about the Copenhagen expedition,—"D—n it, Nelson, send them to the devil your own way,"—sums up accurately enough the confidence shown him by his superiors.
— from The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Our hearts are filled, first, with the thoughts of youth, then with those of [33] manhood, then with those of old age; but there lies before us, before each one of us, an interminable existence, in which we are destined to experience profounder happiness, or profounder unhappiness, than any we have experienced here.
— from The War and the Gospel: Sermons and Addresses During the Present War by Henry Wace

It would be a mistake to suppose that carriages could be used on the high-road; there is no road in Tibet capable of being used by either carriage or jinriksha.
— from Three Years in Tibet by Ekai Kawaguchi

Hard money needs support against paper, and that support can be given by us, by excluding paper money from all federal receipts and payments; and confining paper money to its own local and inferior orbit: and its regulation can be well accomplished by subjecting delinquent banks to the process of bankruptcy, and their small notes to suppression under a federal stamp duty.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

Mr. Wallace observes that it was erected 249 "at an original cost, according to a later statement, of £600, but upon better evidence approximately £400."
— from Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration by Joseph Quincy Adams

Not a word had been uttered, but each felt the other's dread.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various

It would be long before Bull understood, but, even without understanding, he found that his heart was lighter and an odd warmth suffused him.
— from Bull Hunter by Max Brand

Bacon, upon being elected, going down the James River with a party of his friends, was met by an armed vessel, ordered on board of her, and arrested by Major Howe, High Sheriff of James City, who conveyed him to the governor at that place, by whom he was accosted thus: "Mr. Bacon, you have forgot to be a gentleman."
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell