And your duty to your children requires your example to be good in all things.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

—Es que de aquí no se ven más que los arrabales—afirmó 25 con disgusto el guía.—Cuando entre usted en la calle Real y en la del Condestable, verá fábricas tan hermosas como la de la catedral.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

He'd suggested everything—gold rims, the kind that curved round your ears, little pads inside the bridge.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

You could rest your elbow on its eaves, and you had to bend in order to get in at the door.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Así Carlos Reyles y Eduardo Acevedo Días en Uruguay; Francisco Sicardi, Roberto Payró y el fecundo Ocantos en la Argentina; Emilio Rodríguez Mendoza en Chile; Manuel Díaz Rodríguez en Venezuela; Manuel Zeno Gandía en Puerto Rico; Federico García Godoy y Tulio M. Cestero en la República Dominicana; Federico Gamboa y Carlos González Peña en Méjico; así, por último, en Cuba, Jesús Castellanos, que siguiendo las huellas
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

If you press him to do what we certainly resist, you endanger his life.”
— from Sandra Belloni (originally Emilia in England) — Complete by George Meredith

An order came round yesterday evening to the effect that we might move to the new place by bus, it might be by march; in case it should be the latter we must be prepared to move off at 2 in the morning.
— from At Ypres with Best-Dunkley by Thomas Hope Floyd

I cannot reach you except by writing, as I was told by your aunt not to come to the house again.
— from He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope

So if you look through a piece of blue glass you see everything blue; that is, only the blue part of the light from different objects can reach your eyes through this kind of glass.
— from Common Science by Carleton Washburne

When you stand upon that stone, no sound, no matter how close or how loud, can reach your ears."
— from Friend Mac Donald by Max O'Rell

I can read you even from here.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

“So it was play which put those black circles round your eyes?”
— from Beatrix by Honoré de Balzac

As it is recognized that beam is opposed to speed, it has been long the fashion in England to construct racing yachts extremely narrow and of great draught.
— from Sailing by E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight