La idea de que, sin quererlo, estaba en contradicción con las ideas de los amigos de su tía, le mortificaba, y resolvió callar por temor a que
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

But every carle can lord it o'er thy land; Nor rise thy sons, but idly rail in vain, Trembling beneath the scourge of Turkish hand, From birth till death enslaved; in word, in deed, unmanned.
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Como iba diciendo, [75] una casa electricista corre con la instalación de conductores, medidores, toma-corrientes, [76] llaves, fusibles, así como de las campanillas con sus cuadros indicadores, pilas, transformadores, etc., mientras otra casa especialista, de las
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Many persons in every civilized community live in a state of more or less evident savagery with respect to their habits, their morals, and their propensities; and they are held in check only by the law.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

- E. C. C., Lewiston, Idaho.
— from Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

But every carle can lord it o’er thy land; Nor rise thy sons, but idly rail in vain, Trembling beneath the scourge of Turkish hand, From birth till death enslaved; in word, in deed unmann’d.
— from The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt

It is a time to build--to build the America within reach, an America where everybody has a chance to get ahead, with hard work; where every citizen can live in a safe community; where families are strong, schools are good, and all our young people can go on to college; an America where scientists find cures for diseases from diabetes to Alzheimer's to AIDS; an America where every child can stretch a hand across a keyboard and reach every book ever written, every painting ever painted, every symphony ever composed; where government provides opportunity and citizens honor the responsibility to give something back to their communities; an America which leads the world to new heights of peace and prosperity.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Bill Clinton

Life, pulsing life, as far as the embarrassed eye could carry; life in the mazy streets below; life in the forking estuary's tide; life, eager red-blooded life, to the crest of the horizon's hills!
— from The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther

He’s no life-tenant of Carbery, as he makes me feel whenever our views don’t exactly coincide; could leave it to my sisters; or back again, if he chose, to the De Vere lot; and so, what interest he could have had in spiriting away little Mabel Denzil, is a question that I defy Œdipus, or a modern racing prophet, to answer.’
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 736, February 2, 1878 by Various

When his monument is erected in the cathedral which was built by his hated rival, the epitaph which he composed for himself may well be inscribed upon it— Cambria Giraldus genuit, sic Cambria mentem Erudiit, cineres cui lapis iste tegit.
— from The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales by Cambrensis Giraldus