El vasto caudal de su espíritu se desbordaba, amenazando devorar las estrechas riberas.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Nada más natural que nuestro deseo de ver a Jacintillo emparentado con esa gran familia, la primera de Orbajosa; nada más natural que nuestro deseo de verle 10 dueño de las siete casas del pueblo, de la dehesa de Mundogrande, de las tres huertas del cortijo de Arriba, de la Encomienda, y demás predios urbanos y rústicos que posee esa niña.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

So they dug and dug like everything; and it got awful dark, and the rain started, and the wind swished and swushed along, and the lightning come brisker and brisker, and the thunder boomed; but them people never took no notice of it, they was so full of this business; and one minute you could see everything and every face in that big crowd, and the shovelfuls of dirt sailing up out of the grave, and the next second the dark wiped it all out, and you couldn’t see nothing at all.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

[78] de artefactos de luz eléctrica, proporciona las arañas, los pendientes, los brazos, los faroles y los «plafonniers.» Por su parte, el cerrajero [79] se encarga de las cerraduras y cerrojos de las puertas, pestillos, manijas, bisagras, fallebas y pasadores.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Torre de Zoraya, en Aldeire del Cenet, a 15 días del mes de Saphar del año de la egira
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

In the perfected lever escapement, which we shall describe and give working drawings for the construction of, we shall describe a detached lever escapement with only eight degrees fork and pallet action, with only three-fourths of a degree drop and three-fourths of a degree lock, which we can assure our readers is easily within the limits of practical construction by modern machinery.
— from Watch and Clock Escapements A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology by Anonymous

The fault we previously pointed out, of the generally accepted method of delineating a detached lever escapement, is not as conspicuous here as it is where the pallets are drawn with equidistant locking faces; that is, the inner angle of the entrance pallet (shown at s ) does not have to be carried down on the arc d' as far to insure a continuous pallet action of ten degrees, as with the pallets with equidistant locking faces.
— from Watch and Clock Escapements A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology by Anonymous

Ils employaient au lieu de papier l'écorce de certaines arbres, dont ils enlevaient des morceaux qui avaient deux aunes de long et un quart d'aune de large.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

‘See now,’ said Tancred, with unusual animation, ‘I find no charm in conquering the world to establish a dynasty: a dynasty, like everything else, wears out; indeed, it does not last as long as most things; it has a precipitate tendency to decay.
— from Tancred; Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Stories such as this are told of the Cathari punished at Orleans in 1017, and of their successors in later times; and the Universal Doctor, Alain de Lille, even derives the name of Cathari from their kissing Lucifer under {496} the tail in the shape of a cat.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

It was simply bare and dirty; a dull light entered through the dusty windows.
— from Germinal by Émile Zola

“This gloomy weather,” he says, “is by no means calculated to elate one’s spirits, but, on the contrary, makes everything appear in its most dreary and desolate light, especially on a farm like this, and, though 16 the spring will bring more work and attention, yet I shall hail its appearance with joy.
— from Farthest North The Life and Explorations of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood, of the Greely Arctic Expedition by Charles Lanman

As it stands, the investors in the Tanith Adventure, from Duke Angus down, lost everything they put into it.
— from Space Viking by H. Beam Piper