Hubo una larga pausa, durante la cual los dos estuvieron mirándose atentamente, cual si la cara de cada uno fuese para
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

La 15 misma señora, sin entusiasmarse mucho, a causa sin duda de nuestro origen, parecía bien dispuesta a ello, a causa de lo mucho que me estima y venera, como a confesor y amigo... Pero de repente se presenta ese malhadado joven.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

And indeed, if the truth is to be told, what I eat in my corner without form or fuss has much more relish for me, even though it be bread and onions, than the turkeys of those other tables where I am forced to chew slowly, drink little, wipe my mouth every minute, and cannot sneeze or cough if I want or do other things that are the privileges of libe
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And indeed, if the truth is to be told, what I eat in my corner without form or fuss has much more relish for me, even though it be bread and onions, than the turkeys of those other tables where I am forced to chew slowly, drink little, wipe my mouth every minute, and cannot sneeze or cough if I want or do other things that are the privileges of liberty and solitude.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And not only externally was all in order, but had it pleased the commander in chief to look under the uniforms he would have found on every man a clean shirt, and in every knapsack the appointed number of articles, “awl, soap, and all,” as the soldiers say.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The monuments here be of William Bambrough, the son of Henry Bambrough of Skardborough, 1392; William Turner, [267] waxchandler, 1400; John Peke, goldsmith, 1441; William Taverner, girdler, 1454; William Mancer, ironmonger, 1465; John Nash, 1466, with an epitaph; John Allen, timbermonger, 1441; Robert Draper, 1500; John Lamberde, draper, alderman, one of the sheriffs of London, who deceased 1554, and was father to [225] William Lambarde, esquire, well known by sundry learned books that he hath published; John Medley, chamberlain of London; John Marsh, esquire, mercer, and common sergeant of London, etc.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Tam impresso ore (saith [5118] Lucian) ut vix labia detrahant, inter deosculandum mordicantes, tum et os aperientes quoque et mammas attrectantes , &c. such kisses as she gave to Gyton, innumera oscula dedit non repugnanti puero, cervicem invadens , innumerable kisses, &c.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It was of this general that the Emperor Napoleon said—" Celui-là est brave tous les jours, en mon absence comme sous mes yeux ."
— from The Idler in France by Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of

Once their parents even met, at Count Sergei Borodin's sprawling Oyster Bay home.
— from Project Daedalus by Thomas Hoover

With a sudden thought of warnings to “Beware of Pickpockets” she had seen in Edinburgh, Miss Amelia clutched so hard at the chain of the reticule which held their purse as well as their mystery that it broke, and the bag fell over the side of the coach and, bursting open, scattered its contents on the road unobserved by the guard, whose bugle at the moment was loudly flourishing for the special delectation of a girl at work in a neighboring cornfield.
— from Bud: A Novel by Neil Munro

Of the native prahus alone there are many varieties, some built after European models, and carrying sails similar to those of our English luggers.
— from James Braithwaite, the Supercargo: The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat by William Henry Giles Kingston

All earthy matter, and chemical solutions of iron, and the like, tend to accumulate by deposit at the outlet.
— from Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles by Henry F. (Henry Flagg) French

Hero has evidently made a careful study of this subject.
— from A History of Science — Volume 1 by Edward Huntington Williams