Sally's eyebrows and teeth alone would have been enough to set all the birds singing in the dullest coppices decorum ever planted, let alone the tales she had to tell of all the strange and wonderful things that had come to pass at the Erskine Peels', who were the givers of the party, and always did things on such a scale.
— from Somehow Good by William De Morgan

Il ne se peut trouver une soûmission, et une obéïssance plus parfaite, ni un amour plus sincère, que celui des Espagnols pour leur Roi.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

Such is the system in which he composed Demetrio e Polibio , L'Inganno felice , La Pietra del Paragone , Tancredi , &c. Rossini had found La Marcolini, La Malanotte, La Manfredini, the Mombelli family, why should he not endeavour to give prominence to the singing—he who is such a good singer, and who when he sits down to the piano to sing one of his own airs, seems to transform the genius we know him to possess as a composer into that of a singer?
— from The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

Cursos de Enseñanza para las Escuelas Públicas de las Islas Filipinas.
— from Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 by Philippines. Bureau of Education

267, 268, where it is mentioned, that when the minister, Esquilache, persevered in his attempts to have the streets of Madrid cleaned, the opponents of the scheme made inquiries into the opinions of their fathers on that subject; and the result was, ‘que le presentaron cierta originalísima consulta hecha por los médicos bajo el reinado de uno de los Felipes de Austria, y reducida á demostrar que, siendo sumamente sutil el aire de la poblacion á causa de estar próxima la sierra de Guadarrama, ocasionaria los mayores estragos si no se impregnara en los vapores de las inmundicias desparramadas por las calles.’
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle