—Mira, sobrino, tengo que advertirte una cosa—dijo 30 doña Perfecta, con aquella risueña expresión de bondad que emanaba de su alma, como de la flor el aroma.—Pero
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

esprit , m. , principe pensant; faculté de concevoir avec rapidité et de s'exprimer ingénieusement.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

When he had passed the boundary of those countries, he was somewhat comforted, and rode eight days without adventure.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Their Petticoats, which began to heave and swell before you left us, are now blown up into a most enormous Concave, and rise every Day more and more: In short, Sir, since our Women know themselves to be out of the Eye of the Spectator , they will be kept within no Compass.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Your fellow citizens are returning every day to their homes and orders have been given that they should find in them the help and protection due to their misfortunes.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It applies to every case and resolves every difficulty.
— from The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): The American Crisis by Thomas Paine

Miss Rebecca Fairbanks was obliged in 1895 to sell the house to John Crowley, a real estate dealer in Dedham.
— from The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees by Mary Caroline Crawford

Each day, as mute he sat in desperate grief, They spoke kind words of comfort and relief; Each day, howe'er they sought, howe'er they sued, Scarce might they win his lips to taste of food: 'Come, welcome death!'
— from The Lay of Marie and Vignettes in Verse by Matilda Betham

Despite the great length of Mr. De Morgan's books, and the leisurely passages of comment and rather extraneous detail, he never begins slowly.
— from Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps

The costumes are rich, each dancer carries sword and dagger, and the performances (which are enthusiastically received) take place in the open air upon a raised platform.
— from The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

A wondrous fraternity united these men, who had flocked to Lourdes from every province of France, and who belonged to all classes, and represented every degree of fortune.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 3 by Émile Zola

Now take ernudder drink er cider all roun', en den git at dat cotton, fer I wanter git dat Persimmon Hill trac' all pick' ober ter-day.'
— from The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various

Although, for ease and convenience of illustration, the character of a particular Keeper has been used as a nucleus about which to arrange materials that would otherwise have lacked a connecting link, the facts here collected are really entirely derived from original observation.
— from The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Richard Jefferies

We can all readily enough distinguish the difference between physical efforts, intellectual efforts, and moral efforts; but we are very ready to confound the rewards which, we think, Nature has
— from A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education by James Gall