—Poco a poco—dijo el canónigo, extendiendo la mano y dando paz a la boca por breve rato para que, hablando, descansase del mascar.—Alto allá: no venga usted aquí 36 haciéndose el modesto, Sr. D. José, que hartos
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Wherefore, being one night with the abbess, he gave loose to [154] his tongue and bespoke her thus: 'Madam, I have heard say that one cock sufficeth unto half a score hens, but that half a score men can ill or hardly satisfy one woman; whereas needs must I serve nine, and to this I can no wise endure; nay, for that which I have done up to now, I am come to such a pass that I can do neither little nor much; wherefore do ye either let me go in God's name or find a remedy for the matter.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

For, on the one hand, the virtuous Epicurus, like many well-intentioned men of this day who do not reflect deeply enough on their principles, fell into the error of presupposing the virtuous disposition in the persons for whom he wished to provide the springs to virtue (and indeed the upright man cannot be happy if he is not first conscious of his uprightness; since with such a character the reproach that his habit of thought would oblige him to make against himself in case of transgression and his moral self-condemnation would rob him of all enjoyment of the pleasantness which his condition might otherwise contain).
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting “it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce.”
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

I wanted to find out something else; it was something else led me on.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

CUBA La república de Cuba, llamada la "perla de las Antillas" es la más fértil
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

But oh—afterwards—why, Rilla, I know father won't even let me go to the station Friday morning to see Joe off.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Going into the bathing-house, Nadyezhda Fyodorovna found there an elderly lady, Marya Konstantinovna Bityugov, and her daughter Katya, a schoolgirl of fifteen; both of them were sitting on a bench undressing.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Puisque le websoap a comme particularité d'utiliser exclusivement les moyens du web pour raconter les récits, il se donne comme objectif de mettre en place.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

FINIS End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover, by Anonymous *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LAURA MIDDLETON
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

he would not even let me go to my quarters to change my dress, but conducted me himself to his room and lent me his linen and clothing.
— from Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

The names of the relatives she loved and revered sounded in her ears like music, but the advancing night warned her of the necessity of returning to the Castle, where the hours were scrupulously observed; and when John Sandal offered to attend her home, she had no longer a motive to delay her departure.
— from Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 4 (of 4) by Charles Robert Maturin

He was elected Lord Mayor for the third time In 1690, and died in 1691.—
— from The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Jonathan Swift

—Y a propósito de música—dijo Pepe Rey, sin advertir el deplorable efecto que sus palabras producían en la madre
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Pictures in the papers, details of your early life, moving stories about your many virtues, weeping relatives at the dock as the ship sails out of the bay and all that sort of thing.
— from Frank Armstrong at College by Matthew M. Colton

Probably the earliest Latin majuscule writing is that known as square capitals.
— from Illumination and Its Development in the Present Day by Sidney Farnsworth

It is upon the background of the sacred value of work that the equally legitimate moral factor of play is here considered.
— from The Minister and the Boy: A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work by Allan Hoben

The engineer laughed merrily at this, and said the story was as much legend as the exploits of the beast of Gévaudan.
— from In the Track of R. L. Stevenson and Elsewhere in Old France by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir