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— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

de [42] la república, después de cruzar una fertilísima región montañosa en la que abunda toda suerte
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Neque prius in iis desiderium cessat dum dejectus consoletur; videre enim est ipsam arborem incurvatam, ultro ramis ab utrisque vicissim ad osculum exporrectis.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I have often sauntered between Ludgate Hill and Charing Cross a whole winter night, exposed not only to the inclemency of the weather, but likewise to the rage of hunger and thirst, without being so happy as to meet with one dupe, then creep up to my garret, in a deplorable draggled condition, sneak to bed, and try to bury my appetite and sorrows in sleep.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

And the thought that, if he were seized by a sudden illness and confined to the house, the people whom his valet would instinctively run to find would be the Duc de Chartres, the Prince de Reuss, the Duc de Luxembourg and the Baron de Charlus, brought him the same consolation as our old Françoise derived from the knowledge that she would, one day, be buried in her own fine clothes, marked with her name, not darned at all (or so exquisitely darned that it merely enhanced one's idea of the skill and patience of the seamstress), a shroud from the constant image of which in her mind's eye she drew a certain satisfactory sense, if not actually of wealth and prosperity, at any rate of self-esteem.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

La mayoría de las repúblicas de Centro América consideran ciudadanos de las mismas a todos los residentes que, nacidos en otra nación centroamericana, no expresen el deseo de conservar su nacionalidad.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

From the station came the noise of a train; somewhere in the distance drowsy cocks were crowing; but, all the same, the night was still, the world was sleeping tranquilly.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

My dear, dear cousin, what's the matter?"
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Such roasting heat, such oppressive solitude, and such dismal desolation can not surely exist elsewhere on earth.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Directions: Draw design, cut pattern, place it on the silver, and cut out as before.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Working in Metals by Charles Conrad Sleffel

It was in this place, the reader will remember, that the hapless Dame du Chateau was at that very instant in “durance vile.”
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

“Dear, dear,” cried Miss Campbell.
— from The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine by Katherine Stokes

"L'île de Sendi Foulat est très grande; il y a de l'eau douce, des champs cultivés, du, riz et des cocotiers.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

* * * In 1990 I spoke with the three English professors who, in 1976, had served on Rama's doctoral dissertation committee.
— from Take Me for a Ride: Coming of Age in a Destructive Cult by Mark E. Laxer

Honeybird was the least excited of them all; not even when Doctor Dixey came and made her tell her adventures twice over did she lose her head.
— from The Weans at Rowallan by Kathleen Fitzpatrick

And shadows over their faces moved like curious thoughts as the torches flickered and the dull dawn crossed the fields.
— from A Dreamer's Tales by Lord Dunsany

There are in Florida many bears and lions, wolves, deer, dogs, cats, martens, and conies.
— from A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 by Knight of Elvas

However, I went on, and drawing my sword, which was a stiff tuck, about a dozen paces short of the shop, run on, and when I came up to the door, I cried out, “You are a dead man,” and made a strong pass just before the confectioner’s breast, who dropped down, calling for help, and my sword run clear through a box of sweetmeats, which I drew out with it and carried off.
— from Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper by Francisco de Quevedo