[1] dentro de San Miguel el Grande, [2] dentro de esa ciudad donde todo es amable, donde todo es bello, donde son simpáticas hasta las pobres muchachuelas que con sus zagalejos atraviesan las calles, cargadas con su verdura, con sus aves, o con sus manojos de flores.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The bottle did not behold the light of day again, until it was unpacked with the rest in the wine merchant's cellar, and, for the first time, rinsed with water, which caused some very curious sensations.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

At the back of this creek some violent convulsion had torn up the rocky border, and a cutting, by a gentle slope, gave access to an upper plateau, which might be situated at least ten miles from Claw Cape, and consequently four miles in a straight line from Prospect Heights.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Everybody used to say he was so clever, so very clever; I was the only one that said he was a fool.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Do we look, then, on the libidinous, the angry, the anxious, and the timid man, as persons of wisdom, of excellence? of which I could speak very copiously and diffusely, but I wish to be as concise as possible.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Algunas cartas son verdaderamente conmovedoras, et me dan alegría durante todo el día.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

That Redemption in an opus perfectum , a finished work, the claim to which is conferred in Baptism; that a Christian cannot speak or think as if his Redemption by the blood, and his Justification by the Righteousness of Christ alone, were future or contingent events, but must both say and think, I have been redeemed, I am justified; lastly, that for as many as are received into his Church by baptism, Christ has condemned sin in the flesh, has made it dead in law , that is, no longer imputable as guilt , has destroyed the objective reality of sin:—these are truths, which all the Reformed Churches, Swedish, Danish, Evangelical, (or Lutheran,) the Reformed (the Calvinistic in mid-Germany, France, and Geneva, so called,) lastly, the Church of England, and the Church of Scotland—nay, the best and most learned divines of the Roman Catholic Church have united in upholding as most certain and necessary articles of faith, and the effectual preaching of which Luther declares to be the appropriate criterion, stantis vel cadentis Ecclesiæ .
— from Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The latter is practically negligible having regard to the smooth surface of the modern aeroplane, and its comparatively slow velocity compared with, for instance, the velocity of a propeller blade.
— from The Aeroplane Speaks by H. (Horatio) Barber

FALL OF PEEL This had nothing to do with the Coercion Bill, and the motive of a charge so vindictive could only have been to irritate passions which did not need any further stimulus.
— from The Earl of Beaconsfield by James Anthony Froude

Cape St. Vincent, Cape Spartel, Tarifa, Trafalgar—all spirit-stirring sounds, are within our ken, and recognised with enthusiasm both by the old sailors whose memory can reinvest them with their terrors, and by the naval neophytes who hope to emulate the deeds of their fathers.
— from The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford by Walter Scott

Some of Jeffrey's other criticisms sound very curiously in our ear in these days.
— from Studies in Literature by John Morley

"Count Conrad?" said Visconti clearly through the babble of voices.
— from The Viper of Milan: A Romance of Lombardy by Marjorie Bowen

"The case seems very clear," said the Lieutenant; "the King would never employ such instruments as these; and I think, Sir Harry, that I had better keep the fellow for the stocks, and send the gentlewoman away with you."
— from Arabella Stuart: A Romance from English History by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James