XIV Pensando estaba así la señá Torcuata, y ya se dirigía a las hornillas con una sartén en cada mano, cuando se oyeron sonar en la calle gritos y silbidos de viejas y chicuelos, y voces de gente más formal que decía: 20 —¡Señor Alcalde!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

His friends came again the next night and told him that in the morning he would come upon something else to wear.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

109 Sunt his alii multum dispares, simplices et aperti, qui nihil ex occulto, nihil de insidiis agendum putant, veritatis cultores, fraudis inimici, itemque alii, qui [99] quidvis perpetiantur, cuivis deserviant, dum, quod velint, consequantur, ut Sullam et M. Crassum videbamus.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The influence ascribed to music, which to clxxiii us seems exaggerated, is also a Pythagorean feature; it is not to be regarded as representing the real influence of music in the Greek world.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

—Esa es una magnífica idea,—dijo mister Smith.—Pero—agregó con un sí es no es de [8] melancolía—difícil será que mi país desaloje a la Europa de los mercados de América.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

—¿Cree Ud. según eso, que el suelo de la América Central es apropiado al cultivo de la caña?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

When the girl came up, she either kissed her, or made the sign of the cross over her.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Pompeio cedere videbatur; parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi; nec plus Africanus, singularis et vir et imperator, in exscindenda Numantia rei publicae profuit quam eodem tempore P. Nasica privatus, cum Ti. Gracchum interemit; quamquam haec quidem res non solum ex domestica est ratione (attingit etiam bellicam, quoniam vi manuque confecta est), sed tamen id ipsum est gestum consilio urbano sine exercitu.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Reading stramine subtracto , on the authority of the oldest MSS., in which case we must assume (with Plummer) that stramen is used incorrectly for stragulus in the sense of “saddle,” or “horse-cloth,” from the classical use, sternere equum = to saddle.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Del celeste Fattor, opre ingegnose; Da caricare i piccoli cannoni, Ond' armata va l'uom, Palle focose: Robusti, anchorè teneri Palloni, Con cui guiocan tra lor, mariti e spose; Del corpo uman spermatici Embrioni; De' venerei piacer fonti amorose; Magazzini vitali, ove Natura L'uman seme riposto, a' figli suoi D' assicurar la succession procura! etc. 11 Genesis, chap.
— from Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction by John Davenport

As the party came up, Samson exchanged looks with his brother, whose lips moved as if he were saying— “Only just you wait, my fine fellow, and I’ll serve you out for this.”
— from Crown and Sceptre: A West Country Story by George Manville Fenn

de Rome , 1869, p. 384: “L'infallibilité du Pape, décidant en matière de foi ex cathedrâ , c'est-à-dire comme maître de l'Eglise étant déjà admise par tous les vrais catholiques, un décret du Concil fera juste l'effet d'une confirmation d'une chose universellement sue et crue.”
— from Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger

After breakfast my wife cooked up some engagement, and hurried me off.
— from Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Robert Herrick

"It was so cold upstairs," said Ellen, drawing up her shoulders.
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

I could use some exercise.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

"You want cheering up," says EDWIN DROOD, kindly.
— from Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870 by Various