Después de haber concluido la comida el ricazo, muy alegre y ufano, partió con el animal, que al momento de salir pronunció con voz casi ahogada de disgusto y de cólera estas palabras: —Miserable, me ha vendido Vd.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Should the day be a fine one (though chilly) in mellowing autumn, press closer your travelling cloak, and draw down your cap over your ears, and snuggle cosily, comfortably into a corner of the britchka before a last shiver shall course through your limbs, and the ensuing warmth shall put to flight the autumnal cold and damp.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Well then, setting aside mercenary people, who, of course, are dreadful, do you think seriously that women who have committed what the world calls a fault should never be forgiven?
— from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

But when Malcolm said that England was sending an army into Scotland against Macbeth, Ross blurted out his news, and Macduff cried, “ All dead, did you say?
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

A este nombre, glorioso en todo el universo, y que ningún hombre consagrado a Dios desconocía ya,
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

It offered to the outer world a long, rather low facade, colored a dull, dark yellow, and pierced with windows of various sizes, no one of which, save those on the ground floor, was on the same level with any other.
— from Roderick Hudson by Henry James

'That may be your own fault,' I said, a little sarcastically; 'if you should treat him as Cragin and David do, you might have nothing to complain of.'
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

There is no question but you would have acted in the same circumstance as Demetrius did: yet let me tell you, the extravagancy of his rage and despair for what he had innocently committed, was imputed to him as a great imbecility, as was also the violent passion he conceived soon after for the fair Deidamia.
— from The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella, v. 1-2 by Charlotte Lennox

"Padre," said he, when we walked up and down in the garden, after an old custom, after dinner, "do you really know what I mean to do when I've finished college and start out on my own hook?"
— from Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler

You complain that my countrymen are cold and deliberate; do you know why we love them?
— from Under the Southern Cross by Elizabeth Robins

Police could and did disperse young men on horseback who gathered under his windows at the inn in Rouen for a serenade; but there were other ways of paying respect.
— from The Boys' Life of Lafayette by Helen Nicolay

I thought your three friends would come, and Dr. Dennis, you know, and people of that stamp, who understand and will help us.
— from Ruth Erskine's Crosses by Pansy