You shall have a kiss for every step, a recompense for every effort, more smiles, and more joy, than you will encounter fog and cold.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

The coal trade from Newcastle to London, for example, employs more shipping than all the carrying trade of England, though the ports are at no great distance.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

esfera f. sphere, heaven, orb. esmeralda f. emerald. espacio m. space.
— from El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections by José de Espronceda

His Majesty, on visiting the line of battle, where there had been no provisions for forty-eight hours (for that day there had been distributed only one loaf of ammunition bread for every eight men), saw, while passing from bivouac to bivouac, soldiers roasting potatoes in the ashes.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy

Great volumes of smoke, clouds of sparks flying into the air, attested formidable explosions; every minute stars lit up and died out again in the horizon.
— from History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagaray

The familiar expression "every mother's son of us" finds kin in the Modern High German Muttersohn, Mutterkind , which, with the even more significant Muttermensch (human being), takes us back to the days of "mother-right."
— from The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander Francis Chamberlain