Las desviaciones del correo electrónico: personas mal educadas que se aprovechan de la distancia o de un cierto anonimato para decir cosas desagradables, o adoptar actitudes realmente pueriles, con consecuencias que, desgraciadamente, no son siempre las de un mundo de niños… Por ejemplo, un día, una persona aprovechó de qué le envié la copia de un mensaje - porque yo pensaba que le interesaría el tema - para intervenir entre mi correspendiente y yo, con el objeto de desacreditarme.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Ella me miró de una manera particular, y sacó de la sala un banquito para que me sentase en el empedrado, desde el cual dominaba yo la escena.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

If you think that Albert’s fate depends upon my pleasure, you are mistaken.
— from The Lerouge Case by Emile Gaboriau

For as she now meant to torment him by what she said, she no longer constrained herself to silence—and as he harboured the same kind intention towards her, he had no longer any objection to make a reply, and therefore answered, "No, madam, if it depended upon my permission, you should not know."
— from A Simple Story by Mrs. Inchbald

Amongst those to whom age or habitual authority assigned the chief place, an eager consultation went on as to their proceedings; and though there was, as is generally the case in such meetings, a great difference upon many points, yet three acts were unanimously decided upon; first, to send all the women and children out of the village--next, to despatch a messenger to Woodchurch for military aid--and, next, to set about casting bullets immediately, as no shot larger than slugs were to be found in the place.
— from The Smuggler: A Tale. Volumes I-III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James