no pudo corresponder a la excitación de su espíritu, y desfalleciendo, dejóse caer sobre una piedra que hacía las veces de asiento en aquellos amenos lugares.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

On-Line Chronicle of Higher Ed CIVIL-L (CIVIL-L@UNBVM1) Civil Engineering Research & Ed. COMLAW-L (COMLAW-L@UALTAVM) Computers and Legal Education DRUGABUS (DRUGABUS@UMAB) Drug Abuse Education Information JOURNET (JOURNET@QUCDN) Discussion List for Journalism Ed MEDIA-L (MEDIA-L@BINGVMB)
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

financiera y contribuyendo así al desarrollo de la economía mundial; contribuir a una sana expansión económica tanto en los países miembros como en los no miembros, con miras al desarrollo económico; contribuir a la expansión del comercio mundial sobre una base multilateral y no discriminatoria conforme a las obligaciones internacionales.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

que «es como la luz» [9] ; para hablar de una mujer linda, «es como las estrellas»; para indicar un caballo rápido, «es como águila»; para elogiar a un individuo firme que no cede a los embates de la mala fortuna, «es como cuadro».
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Abalienatus postea est ab Antonio, quod is, repudiata Octavia sorore, Cleopatram, Aegypti reginam, duxisset uxorem: quae quidem mulier cum Antonio luxu et deliciis certabat.
— from Selections from Viri Romae by C. F. L'Homond

Out of her cheeks and lips every drop of blood seemed driven, and her eyes were blazing fire.
— from Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt

This cyclical slowdown has been exacerbated by the global financial crisis through increased borrowing costs and lower export demand, consumer confidence, and investment.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The proportion of the aisles one to another is bad, the vaults ill-formed, and altogether a colder and less effective design was not produced in the Middle Ages.
— from A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

Sole lord taking captive all lands every day, As one beholding them that walk therein; Shining in the sky a being as the sun.
— from Archæology and the Bible by George A. (George Aaron) Barton

When coming out to sea we got the wind from the south, so that we could not sail higher than the Cape, and lost eight days during which we made no progress.
— from The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765 by J. E. (Jan Ernst) Heeres

The widow of his brother, Marie d’Antras, in her will ordered her body to be buried in the sanctuary where the lords of Sainte-Gemme had been buried since the ninth century, and left extensive domains for the foundation and support of a chapel adjoining, to be served by three chaplains, who were to say two requiem Masses a week for her soul, a De Profundis at the end of every Mass, and perform a funeral service on the anniversary of her death.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

“I’m glad to see you, Mr Lane,” Millicent cried, as Lane entered; “do help Phyllis and me.
— from The Luminous Face by Carolyn Wells

An icy stare on her part, a stiff formal bow from the man passing—that was all, but she knew that in that brief interval he had had ample opportunity to observe that she was worried and cross and looked every day of her twenty-nine lonely years; and of course it could not but give him much satisfaction.
— from Pearl and Periwinkle by Anna Graetz