and I find ourselves arriesgada por demás embroiled in a struggle empeñados nos hallamos; that’s needlessly risky, pero, a querer tú ayudarme, but if you are willing to help me más que la vida salvarme you can save even more than puedes.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

[4] Se preocupó, y no se engañaba al preocuparse, en recoger y en difundir los datos de la estadística escolar, fundándola y manteniéndola con solícito empeño.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

la personalidad de Enrique José Varona, [64] cuya significación en el desenvolvimiento intelectual de Cuba es de notoria trascendencia en tan diversos como importantes aspectos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

This crying spirit especially affected the twelve parishes in the hundred of Inis Cenin, which lie on the south-east side of the river Towy, ‘where some time past it groaned before the death of every person who lived that side of the country.’
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

I wish I could so easily forget his ingratitude to the best of benefactors; and yet even that I hope you will forgive him, since he must have certainly been possessed with the devil: for that very evening, as Mr Thwackum and myself were taking the air in the fields, and exulting in the good symptoms which then first began to discover themselves, we unluckily saw him engaged with a wench in a manner not fit to be mentioned.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Our traders McNeal and York were furnished with the buttons which Capt. C. and myself cut off our coats, some eye water and Basilicon which we made for that purpose and some Phials and small tin boxes which I had brought out with Phosphorus.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

He had no occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon Street every night.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

We do not reckon our soldiers the most industrious set of people among us; yet when soldiers have been employed in some particular sorts of work, and liberally paid by the piece, their officers have frequently been obliged to stipulate with the undertaker, that they should not be allowed to earn above a certain sum every day, according to the rate at which they were paid.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Capt. Sterrett expressed our thanks, and asked if there were any service we might render in return.
— from Our Women in the War by Francis Warrington Dawson

How could she explain to Aunt Mary that the sight of beautiful things gave her a sort of pain—when she did not yet know it herself?
— from A Modern Chronicle — Complete by Winston Churchill

Each class shall elect its own representatives.
— from The Theory and Policy of Labour Protection by A. (Albert) Schäffle

Emotion must never impede efficiency, as long as there was anything practical to be done; you had to control such emotions {309} as pity and vague compassion.
— from Robin Linnet by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Indeed, he cannot stand except upon his tail in a perpendicular attitude, but in the collections he is poised upon his feet like a barn-yard fowl, all the wildness and grace and alertness goes out of him.
— from Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers by John Burroughs

He was over head and ears in debt; the creditors seized everything—house, furniture, plate, and all—and my mother and I were penniless.
— from A Changed Heart: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

"Cuckoo," she exclaimed, "take me to the sea.
— from The Cuckoo Clock by Mrs. Molesworth