4 II Un viaje por el corazón de España Cuando empezada la caminata dejaron a un lado las casuchas de Villahorrenda, el caballero, que era joven y de muy buen ver, habló de este modo: —Dígame usted, Sr. Solón...
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

No number of opposites to a quality we have never directly experienced could ever lead us positively to infer what that quality is.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Here is a perfectly crystallised specimen:— D'amour, de grace, et de haulte valeur Les feux divins estoient ceinctz et les cieulx S'estoient vestuz d'un manteau precieux A raiz ardens di diverse couleur: Tout estoit plein de beaute, de bonheur, La mer tranquille, et le vent gracieulx, Quand celle la nasquit en ces bas lieux Qui a pille du monde tout l'honneur.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

ocurrido con el establecimiento de estaciones pesqueras en las costas de San Paulo y Santa Catalina en el Brasil, con los trabajos de propagación de especies comestibles en los ríos de la Argentina austral y Chile, y con
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

(See page 120) Reproduced by permission from "Découvertes en Chaldée" (E. Letoux, Paris)
— from Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie

He proposes a plan, quite feasible in his own estimation, whereby this desirable object might be effected: and then retorts upon his townsmen by reminding them of the commodious fountains at Lisieux, Falaise and Vire --of which the inhabitants "n'ont rien espargné pour auoir ceste decoration et commodité en leurs villes.
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Le besoin en subsistence produit toujours des effete cruels, et le résultat peut en être calculé plus positivement que celui de toute autre chose.
— from Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. Particularly of His Services in the Canadas, Including a Reply to the Strictures on His Military Character, Contained in an Article in the Quarterly Review by E. B. Brenton

Our few vessels, almost helpless by their defective engines, could effect little against their powerful opponents.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

[1245] Discours sur le Saceagement des Eglises Catholiques ... en l'an 1562.
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird