What! mustn't a lady move an inch from her door without being dogged like a thief?" "But how was we to know, if you left no account of your doings?" expostulated Coggan, "and ladies don't drive at these hours, miss, as a jineral rule of society.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

In the meantime here was Anne, reading Dickens, eating chocolates, and leaning over the rail of the House Gallery to listen to his speeches.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

He spoke, screwing up his drunken eyes, while his friends went on drinking, eating caviare, and listening.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

XX Rumores.—Temores Al día siguiente de esta disputa lamentable, corrieron por toda Orbajosa de casa en casa, de círculo en círculo, desde el Casino a la botica, y desde el paseo de las 10 Descalzas a la puerta de Baidejos, rumores varios sobre Pepe Rey y su conducta.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

En fin, 20 mi querido amigo, por si inadvertidamente ha hablado de esto con alguien, le recuerdo que es un secreto de familia, y con
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Il faut être digne et calme avec Lembke.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

financiera y contribuyendo así al desarrollo de la economía mundial; contribuir a una sana expansión económica tanto en los países miembros como en los no miembros, con miras al desarrollo económico; contribuir a la expansión del comercio mundial sobre una base multilateral y no discriminatoria conforme a las obligaciones internacionales.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

V ARIANTS : Eso queda (or corre ) por cuenta de ; eso corresponde a los .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

—En América, el maizal es cosa muy común desde el Canadá a la Tierra del Fuego.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

[1] Algunas excluyen de esta condición a los hijos de extranjeros, siempre que [2] el hijo no opte por la nacionalidad de nacimiento al llegar a su mayoría de edad.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

"But how was we to know, if you left no account of your doings?" expostulated Coggan, "and ladies don't drive at these hours, miss, as a jineral rule of society.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

E ragionando insieme tutta via Di cose degne e condecenti a loro, Guardava il Conte il ciel, poscia dicia: Questo the ora veggiamo, è un bel lavoro, Che
— from Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Leigh Hunt

If employers are troubled by the fondness of their servants for dancing, evening company, and late hours, the proper mode of proceeding is to make these matters a subject of distinct contract in hiring.
— from Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The floor was covered with a dark Eastern carpet, a large chair with a footstool in front stood at a short distance from the planisphere; at one end was a massive table on which were retorts, glass globes, and a variety of apparatus new to Guy.
— from At Agincourt by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

And indeed when they did eventually choose a landing-place, and when they began to look around them, the arduous nature of their task became abundantly apparent.
— from Donald Ross of Heimra (Volume 3 of 3) by William Black

[213] At length, on Sunday, the 20th, the Ambassadors were received by the Queen, and introduced Browne and Bonner, as well as Dr. Edward Carne, a learned lawyer whom Henry had sent to assist in drawing up the marriage treaty.
— from Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590 by Julia Cartwright

To drift at nightfall into an unknown town, and wander through its less frequented ways, and peep into its dark, empty churches, and listen to the wind in the stunted trees that grow by its Prison, and watch some flickering particular light high up in some tall house—the light of a harlot, a priest, an artist,
— from Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys

The Frenchman’s drooping eyelids closed a little more, and he replied, meditatively: “Money?
— from Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Complete by Gilbert Parker

“At this period of her career she had not,” [4] says Dr. Eliott Coues, a learned investigator of psychic phenomena, “been metamorphosed into a Theosophist.
— from Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft Illustrated Investigations into the Phenomena of Spiritualism and Theosophy by Henry Ridgely Evans