Además, en lo de las embriagueces no tienen razón, y en cuanto al juego, no sé que jugaras hasta hoy.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
No, my little sister, I am too well aware of your liability to acute attacks of enthusiasm not to receive your brilliant perorations with a justifiable mistrust.
— from Erlach Court by Ossip Schubin
"I think I am well enough now to relieve you of my intrusion," she said.
— from Wanted—A Match Maker by Paul Leicester Ford
Unhappily, monsieur, your conduct is too notorious, your vices make too much noise in the world; you are cited too often by all the wellborn debauchees, for the echo not to reach your father's ears.
— from The Bath Keepers; Or, Paris in Those Days, v.1 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume VII) by Paul de Kock
The other curved dark line by its side, ending near the reference y , is the notochord ch .
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour
Shortly afterwards, on the waiter coming in to lay the supper table, he stood aghast at our exposure to the night air, and precipitately dosed the casements, exclaiming, “Signore, it would have been death for you to have slept here in August or September; and, even now, the risk you are running is not slight.”
— from Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester
I shall be considerate enough not to require you to go abroad while the sun is up; but you will bear a hand at night when no moon is to be seen; and when the storm kindly helps to conceal suspicious noises.
— from The Four Canadian Highwaymen; Or, The Robbers of Markham Swamp by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Collins
And you may be quite comfortable in your mind; you won't ever need to risk your reputation by being seen in my company again."
— from Lady Lilith by Stephen McKenna
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