Encendido el rostro y con los ojos llenos de fuego, gritó de este modo: —Yo di mi palabra al gobernador, porque el gobernador me dijo que venían con buen fin.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Pero de repente transformóse el rostro de aquella mujer, mudáronse los plañideros sollozos en una voz bronca y dura, palideció su rostro, temblaron sus labios, cerráronse sus puños, cayéronle sobre la frente algunas guedejas del desordenado cabello, secáronse por completo 25 sus ojos al calor de la ira que bramaba en su pecho, levantóse del asiento, y no como una mujer, sino como una harpía, gritó de este modo: —¡Yo me voy de aquí, yo me voy con mi hijo!...
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Did Edmond make you his heir?” “No, merely his testamentary executor.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

ꝓ nõ potere tenere ſaldo ſoura le ſpalle de ſuo padre ſe anego ꝓ nõ potere caualcare la dicta punta paſſaſemo de ſoto dela yſola doue erano molte yſolette
— 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

And although they [2465] do eat much, yet they are lean, ill-liking, saith Areteus, withered and hard, much troubled with costiveness, crudities, oppilations, spitting, belching, &c. Their pulse is rare and slow, except it be of the [2466] Carotides, which is very strong; but that varies according to their intended passions or perturbations, as Struthius hath proved at large, Spigmaticae.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Bolivia concurre con el diez y ocho por ciento de la producción mundial de ese metal, y que los Estados Unidos reciben ahora de Oriente.... —... corriendo el riesgo de que su paso por el canal de Suez se vea dificultado en tiempo de guerra—agregó mister Smith, completando la frase.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

[4] y comenzó el tiroteo en la parte de arriba; y salidas las reses del lecho de la quebrada, se hubiera dado por perdido el lance, si dos de ellas, macho y hembra, no hubiesen corrido hacia abajo.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Despidiéronse el musulmán y el cristiano, y éste se dirigió, 30 no
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

If you are a "Down East" man you will undoubtedly select some kind of snowshoe boot, harness, fastening or whatever you choose to call it.
— from Woodcraft by Elmer Harry Kreps

The dead earl, many years her senior, had achieved brilliant success in the Army, and his name was inscribed upon the roll of England’s heroes.
— from The Day of Temptation by William Le Queux

"Mr. Fothergill, take your party into the village and set fire to the houses; shoot down every man you see.
— from Tales from the Works of G. A. Henty by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

ABSTRACT OF THE IMPORTS INTO, AND THE EXPORTS FROM, THE PORT OF LONDON ; Made up from the Public Accounts for one year, ending the 5th day of January, 1798; but differing with regard to the value, from those accounts; in which the price is estimated on data established many years ago, when the articles of commerce imported and exported were not rated at above half the sum they now fetch, exclusive of duty.
— from A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Patrick Colquhoun

With the influx of strangers, the value of property, especially in the more central part of the city, has been greatly enhanced, and has led the natives to think of economising their ground by constructing upper stories to their houses in the European fashion, the obvious advantage whereof will no doubt ere many years make the plan general, and greatly add to the embellishment of the city.
— from Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de La Plata Their Present State, Trade, and Debt by Parish, Woodbine, Sir

The Doctor evidently misses you, and very often inquires after your welfare.
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, No. 06, April 1878 Scribner's Illustrated by Various

XXIX " `And I,' cried Ariodantes, `marvel more' (In answer to the Scottish lord) `at you, Since I of her enamoured was, before That gentle damsel ever met your view; And know, you are assured how evermore We two have loved; — was never love more true — Are certain she alone would share my lot; And are as well assured she loves you not.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

M Y DEAR E MMY , You are right, there is nothing like answering directly, but my dear child, I have nothing to tell you.
— from Miss Eden's Letters by Emily Eden

Lou looked at Peters and said: "Then why don't you go?" "Why, daughter," exclaimed Margaret, "you musn't talk that way.
— from The Starbucks by Opie Percival Read