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— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

dicho varias veces nuestro hijo Agustín, ni esto es una licencia absoluta.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Then march to Perigot, Medoc, and Elanes, taking wherever you come, without resistance, towns, castles, and forts; afterwards to Bayonne, St. John de Luc, to Fontarabia, where you shall seize upon all the ships, and coasting along Galicia and Portugal, shall pillage all the maritime places, even unto Lisbon, where you shall be supplied with all necessaries befitting a conqueror.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Into an embrion fish, our Soule is throwne, And in due time throwne out againe, and growne To such vastnesse as, if unmanacled From Greece, Morea were, and that by some 305 Earthquake unrooted, loose Morea swome, Or seas from Africks body had severed And torne the hopefull Promontories head,
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

In order to support the circulation of those notes, which were continually returning upon it as fast as they were issued, it had been constantly in the practice of drawing bills of exchange upon London, of which the number and value were continually increasing, and, when it stopt, amounted to upwards of six hundred thousand pounds.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Rosario entraba una llave en la invisible cerradura, y abría cuidadosamente la 115 puerta en cuyo umbral se habían sentado.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

il y a deux ans pour répondre au besoin de trouver sur le net, en un lieu unique, l'essentiel, suffisamment détaillé et abordable par le grand public, dans le but: a) de se forger avant tout une culture tout en préparant à des examens probatoires à des études de lettres - c'est la raison
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Cum enim vespere facto de eodem lacû socii colloquerentur, interrogabat eos ubi lacus ille esset, et mirati sunt universi.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

And I could not but think, with regret, of the different feelings we experienced upon leaving London, to what had belonged to our entering it.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Indeed, young Cazalet, whose father was a pensioner at Chunar, hinted very broadly that Colonel Creighton's interest in Kim was directly paternal; and Kim, instead of retaliating, did not even use language.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

It was clearly through the intervention of a kind fellow-passenger, who, seeing that amazement enveloped us like a garment, kindly took us in charge.
— from An American Girl Abroad by Adeline Trafton

“ You’re elected unanimous, Little Mother; an’ that settles it.”
— from The Daring Twins: A Story for Young Folk by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

If Auguste Comte had ever used language which could fairly be so understood, I will not stop to inquire.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, April 1885 by Various

After the Peace of Amiens, observing that Bonaparte intended to annihilate instead of establishing universal liberty, Daendels gave in his resignation and retired to obscurity, not wishing to be an instrument of tyranny, after having so long fought for freedom.
— from Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete by Lewis Goldsmith

The ladies and her servants tried at first to cheer her; but when they found their efforts useless, let her be.
— from Veiled Women by Marmaduke William Pickthall

Wilfred crept behind the walls, but after the general start there was an equally universal laugh, for between the stout mullions of the oriel window Lord Rotherwood’s face was seen, and Sir Jasper’s behind him.
— from Beechcroft at Rockstone by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Caryocaris Wrightii , Arenig (Skiddaw Slates); e, Beyrichia complicata , natural size and enlarged, Upper Llandeilo and Caradoc; f, Primitia strangulata , Caradoc: g. Head-shield of Calymene Blumenbachii , var. brevicapitata , Caradoc; h , Head-shield of Triarthrus Becki (Utica Slates), United States: i , Shield of Leperditia Canadensis , var.
— from The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Henry Alleyne Nicholson

But that man, Paul Davies, kept his eye upon Lebas from the motive I mentioned, and this circumstance may have led to his seeing more of the matter than, with the reward in his mind, he cares to make known at present.
— from Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu