En algunos, el estudio del problema del regadío está a cargo de comisiones permanentes y en ellos se han levantado empréstitos de muchos millones de dólares para llevar a cabo trabajos de largo aliento.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

" That seemed to be true, and Mrs. Bulstrode's remonstrance subsided into pity for poor Rosamond, whose extravagant education she had always foreseen the fruits of.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

" Once, when she was relating the story of the search for Emily, Ermengarde saw her face suddenly change.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

His presence at the deathbed could not have failed to leave an impression on a mind so thoughtful and sensitive as Squib’s; and it had been plain to those about him that the boy had thought of little else ever since his return from the peasant’s chalet with news of Seppi’s sudden death, and the way in which he had been summoned.
— from Squib and His Friends by Evelyn Everett-Green

They remembered how sagaciously he had conducted all their enterprises ever since he had been old enough to wear small-clothes.
— from Biographical Stories (From: "True Stories of History and Biography") by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every branch of science had its representative,—an astronomer, botanist, zoologist, ethnologist, &c., were to accompany the Expedition; each section had a number of assistants, the astronomical as many even as nine.
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

"Enough, enough," said he, "I will send an answer."
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

If we say that Franklin was not a genius, it is only for the purpose of adding that even in those early electrical studies he displayed an uncommon amount of the unlimited capacity for taking pains which is said to be associated with that brilliant gift.
— from Makers of Electricity by Brother Potamian

And, more tenderly than any mother could have gathered her baby to her breast, Ronnay de Maurel picked up the invalid out of his chair and carried him in his powerful arms gently into the next room, where he laid him on his bed, undressed him and washed him—an office of mercy which he had performed for the old man every evening since he came home from Austria and laid aside his fine uniform for the peasant's blouse.
— from A Sheaf of Bluebells by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

She died before she ever even saw him, and I've always tried to do what I could to make it up to him.
— from The Melting of Molly by Maria Thompson Daviess