—¿Hay fonda o dormitorio en la estación de Villahorrenda?—preguntó el viajero al del farol.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

An inexorable law dooms every living energy, during the brief interval allotted to it in time, to cover the widest possible extent in space.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

Tristitia autem et in omni re severitas, habet illa quidem gravitatem: sed amicitia remissior esse debet, et liberior, et dulcior, et ad omnem comitatem facilitatemque proclivior." 353 Hesiod, "Theogony," 64. 354 Euripides, "Ion," 732. 355 Our author assigns this saying to Prodicus, "De Sanitate Præcepta," § viii.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Cursó estudios de análisis del discurso en la Escuela de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Sociales (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales - EHESS), París.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

She would purse up her roguish lips in mimic affectation, and then, in a lively strain, begin some provincial ditty— "En la Esquina de casa, Un oficial mi habló."
— from Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

Ancient maps of Russia are unfolded before us, displaying even larger European dimensions than she can boast of now: her perpetual movement of aggrandizement from the ninth to the eleventh century is anxiously pointed out; we are shown Oleg launching 88,000 men against Byzantium, fixing his shield as a trophy on the gate of that capital, and dictating an ignominious treaty to the Lower Empire; Igor making it tributary; Sviataslaff glorying, "the Greeks supply me with gold, costly stuffs, rice, fruits and wine; Hungary furnishes cattle and horses; from Russia I draw honey, wax, furs, and men"; Vladimir conquering the Crimea and Livonia, extorting a daughter from the Greek Emperor, as Napoleon did from the German Emperor, blending the military sway of a northern conqueror with the theocratic despotism of the Porphyro-geniti, and becoming at once the master of his subjects on earth, and their protector in heaven.
— from Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century by Karl Marx