Y me refiero especialmente a la electricidad, porque el gas debe ser caro en esos países....
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

the Academy's definition " no caber el corazón en el pecho , be so wrought up by some occasion of grief or anger that it cannot get relief or quiet," and, since Arabic has affected Spanish so much, the Arabic phrase "his breast is narrow" to express the same idea.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The future commonly expresses either prediction, or will, determination, promise, threat: as, ( a. ) tuās litterās exspectābō , Att. 5, 7, I shall be on the lookout for letters from you .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

In this position Arnold worked patiently for the next thirty-five years, traveling about the country, examining teachers, and correcting endless examination papers.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

A kind of scoundrel imperfectly reverent of, and niggardly contributory to, divines, ecclesiastics, popes, parsons, canons, monks, mollahs, voodoos, presbyters, hierophants, prelates, obeah-men, abbes, nuns, missionaries, exhorters, deacons, friars, hadjis, high-priests, muezzins, brahmins, medicine-men, confessors, eminences, elders, primates, prebendaries, pilgrims, prophets, imaums, beneficiaries, clerks, vicars-choral, archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, preachers, padres, abbotesses, caloyers, palmers, curates, patriarchs, bonezs, santons, beadsmen, canonesses, residentiaries, diocesans, deans, subdeans, rural deans, abdals, charm-sellers, archdeacons, hierarchs, class-leaders, incumbents, capitulars, sheiks, talapoins, postulants, scribes, gooroos, precentors, beadles, fakeers, sextons, reverences, revivalists, cenobites, perpetual curates, chaplains, mudjoes, readers, novices, vicars, pastors, rabbis, ulemas, lamas, sacristans, vergers, dervises, lectors, church wardens, cardinals, prioresses, suffragans, acolytes, rectors, cures, sophis, mutifs and pumpums.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

Las fiestas de carnaval Carnival celebrations let al hombre más principal the most important guest permiten, sin deshonor without any real dishonour de su linaje, servirse make very good use of de un antifaz, y bajo él, a mask, and, behind a false face, ¿quién sabe hasta descubrirse who knows, till he takes the lid off, de qué carne es el pastel?
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

oral evidence, documentary evidence, hearsay evidence, external evidence, extrinsic evidence, internal evidence, intrinsic evidence, circumstantial evidence, cumulative evidence, ex parte evidence[Lat], presumptive evidence, collateral evidence, constructive evidence; proof &c. (demonstration) 478; evidence in chief.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Cuál era el plan de los tres?
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Eres acaso una señorita a quien he conocido en el paseo
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

En cuanto a nuestras exportaciones, claro está que consistirían en el producto variadísimo de nuestras fábricas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Every conceivable emotion, except pity, was depicted on their dark faces.
— from Among the Pines; or, South in Secession Time by James R. (James Roberts) Gilmore

I, induction coil; S, spark gap; A, aerial; CC, condensers; E, earth plate; R, relay; L, variable inductance; F, filings tube; B, battery.
— from Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, J. A. (John Ambrose), Sir

Their difficulties had at last resolved themselves into that condition which confronts every engaged pair; and they, like others, were preparing to inform the world of their intentions.
— from Nedra by George Barr McCutcheon

The final effect of the Revolution in relation to the bishop is the same as in relation to the Pope, and in the French diocese, as in the universal Church, the modern régime sets up a central, extraordinary, enormous power of which the ancient regime knew nothing.
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

Not having a sufficient number of hens to hatch so many eggs, she put them into an oven, and, to the surprise of the aged couple, every egg produced a child.
— from The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together with Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James (Archaeologist) Grant

L'une ne l'autre ni ot aise; Mais toutes voies plus à mal aise Fut la royne de Navarre, En haut estoit; et à la terre La comtesse fut plus aval, Dont elle souffroit moins de mal, Car elle estoit plus chaudement.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833 by Alexandre Dumas

Eishöhle on the Brandstein. (Cranmer, Eishöhlen , etc., page 62.)—A small cleft cave near the Langriedleralm near Gams in Steiermark.
— from Glacières; or, Freezing Caverns by Edwin Swift Balch