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común en la vida
Sin embargo, 20 ocurre un fenómeno singular que no deja de ser común en la vida, y es que si esta exaltación del afecto materno
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

carbón en la vecindad
—Debe de haber carbón en la vecindad de esa fundición.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

circumstance excite less violent
Nor does the heinousness of the circumstance excite less violent emotions at Rome than it had done at Collatia; accordingly they run from all parts of the city into the forum, whither, when they came, the public crier summoned them to attend the tribune of the celeres, with which office Brutus happened to be at that time vested.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

curas et libera vina
Warm in expression, and short in extent, it concentrates in narrow bounds the fire of poetical transport: on which account, it has been generally employed to celebrate the fervours of piety, the raptures of love, the enthusiasm of praise; and to animate warriors to glorious exertions of valour: Musa dedit fidibus Divos, puerosque Deorum, Et pugilem victorem, et equum certamine primnm, Et juvenum curas, et libera vina referre.—Hor.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

cela est le vôtre
Ceci est le mien, cela est le vôtre.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

chez elle le vendredi
FIDÈLE AUX ORDRES Mme de M... était ordinairement chez elle le vendredi.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

consiste en las vegas
La gran riqueza de la isla, sin embargo, consiste en las vegas de tabaco, de caña de azúcar, de café y de algodón.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Cyprian Eveleth looked very
Cyprian Eveleth looked very differently on the new manifestations Myrtle was making of her tastes and inclinations.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

case exclaimed Louis violently
"Oh! if it were really the case—" exclaimed Louis, violently.
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas

contemplacionem et læticiam vobis
Franciæ et Dominus Hiberniæ, &c. Effusam circa nos hiis diebus propiciacionis divinæ clemenciam, ad vestri contemplacionem et læticiam, vobis ducimus intimandam.
— from A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Anonymous

conservarle en la verdad
[1240] "Y quando leyó aquel passo de la letra (que si la reyna madre no quisiesse el ayuda que se le offrescia, la darie V. M. á quien se la pidiesse para favorescer la religion y conservarle en la verdad) reparó un rato y hechó
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

Carpenter en la voyo
Nia nerva sistemi kreskis (segun la vorti di Dr. Carpenter) en la voyo en qua li esis exercita, exakte quale folyo di papero, o vesto unfoye faldita o shifonigita, tendencas falar sempre pose en la sama identa falduri.
— from International Language and Science Considerations on the Introduction of an International Language into Science by Richard Lorenz

Cuando el ladrón v
Cuando el ladrón vió a la princesa ¿qué dijo?
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler


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