mas sublimado por el Sacramento así como por su saber y respetabilidad, habían derramado extraordinario esplendor sobre toda la 10 familia.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Dicimus enim et stabilito tenore firmamus amorem non posse inter duos jugales suas extendere vires, nam amantes sibi invicem gratis omnia largiuntur, nullius necessitatis ratione cogente; jugales vero mutuis tenentur ex debito voluntatibus obedire et in nullo seipsos sibi ad invicem denegare.... Hoc igitur nostrum judicium, cum nimia moderatione prolatum, et aliarum quamplurium dominarum consilio roboratum, pro indubitabili vobis sit ac veritate constanti.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Before I had been confined to it many days, everything else seemed to have retired into a remote distance where there was little or no separation between the various stages of my life which had been really divided by years.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Sobresaliente Joan de Chinchilla Murcia Sobresaliente Anton de Escobar Talavera Sobresaliente Francisco de Angulo Moron Servant to the captain Francisco de Molino Baeza Servant to the captain Roque Pelea Salamanca Servant to the captain Rodrigo Nieto, a Galician Orense Servant to the captain Alonso del Rio Búrgos Servant to the captain Pedro de Balpuesta Citizen of Búrgos Servant to the captain Joan de Leon Leon Servant to the captain Gutierre de Tuñon 30 Tunon in Astúrias Servant to the captain Joan de Sagredo, 31 merino Revenga, in the land of Búrgos Servant to the captain Joan de Minchaca, a crossbowman Bilbao [ 284 ] Captain’s servant Antonio Hernandez; interpreter Ayamonte Servant to the accountant Juan Gomez de Espinosa Espinosa Servant to the accountant Pedro de Urrea Brujas Concepcion (90 tons)
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

[30] Por lo general los gerentes de estas empresas son también ingleses.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Ain’t gwine to have ’em putt’n’ dey han’s up ’fo’ dey eyes en sayin’ to David en Goliah en dem yuther prophets, ‘Dat chile is dress’ too indelicate fo’ dis place.’
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

For in the primitive days the ear kept guard over man even when he slept in terror of a thousand deadly enemies, each stronger than he; and the eye had to be keenly attuned to probe the shadows of the forest for lurking foes.
— from The Night Horseman by Max Brand

He gets drunk every evening, so that he's generally too far gone to trouble about lights out.
— from Combed Out by F. A. (Frederick Augustus) Voigt

“Eureka! count on my vote in favor of that same!” cried Billie, promptly falling in with the scheme, as Donald knew full well he would; because if there was one thing the fat boy liked above all others it was fresh water; and there were times 077.png when it seemed as though he could never drink enough, especially should the weather turn hot.
— from The Broncho Rider Boys Along the Border Or, The Hidden Treasure of the Zuni Medicine Man by Frank Fowler

“It is Baron Weichs, the proud prebendary, who wants to play the master here as he does everywhere else,” said the prince, disdainfully.
— from Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

"And so," I said, "you have taken your praise from me—" "But you are a man, and I a woman: we look with differing eyes, each sex to the other, and perceive by contrast.
— from Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by Walter De la Mare