Dios le enviará su castigo por cualquiera de los admirables caminos que Él sabe elegir.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

As for zoophytes, for a few moments I was able to marvel at a wonderful, orange–hued hydra from the genus Galeolaria that clung to the glass of our port panel; it consisted of a long, lean filament that spread out into countless branches and ended in the most delicate lace ever spun by the followers of Arachne.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Edinburgh is considerably extended on the south side, where there are divers little elegant squares built in the English manner; and the citizens have planned some improvements on the north, which, when put in execution, will add greatly to the beauty and convenience of this capital.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Ainsi les lecteurs étrangers prendront connaissance des grandes lignes du livre et sauront faire les efforts nécessaires pour le lire dans une langue étrangère à la leur. S'agissant
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

As soon as it was over I showed to Sir Ozana these words which I had written on the inside of his hat: "Chemical Department, Laboratory extension, Section G. Pxxp.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Tu necio orgullo delira, Your pride is wandering, foolishly, don Juan; los hierros más gruesos Don Juan; the strongest iron of all, y los muros más espesos and the very thickest wall, se abren a mi paso; mira. opens before my step: See! (Desaparece la estatua sumiéndose por la pared.)
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Superstitious, and not given to devoutness, like every soldier who is only a soldier, when he came to question himself about this adventure, he did not feel assured as to the goat, as to the singular fashion in which he had met La Esmeralda, as to the no less strange manner in which she had allowed him to divine her love, as to her character as a gypsy, and lastly, as to the surly monk.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

I love the river when the sunshine gay Kisses the waves, which joyful seem to play, Dancing like elves so merrily around, Rippling and gurgling with many a happy sound.
— from The Life of the Moselle From its source in the Vosges Mountains to its junction with the Rhine at Coblence by Octavius Rooke

Der Abentheursiche SIMPLICISSIMUS Teutsch Das ist: Die Beschreibung dess Lebes eines seltzamen Vaganten / genant Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim / wo und welcher gestalt
— from The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

Does Lucy Eaton suspect the unworthiness which it kills me to know?
— from Mabel's Mistake by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens