—Es cierto que casi todas las naciones hispano-americanas han creado en la administración federal un Ministerio encargado de dirigir la instrucción pública; pero por lo común, ese departamento gubernamental se encarga sólo de administrar la educación superior, la secundaria, la normal y la especial.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

this is incredible: after all my lessons, to be leaning from the window, and calling (for unless my ears deceived me, you were positively calling!) into the street.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 15 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Therefore it behoveth thee to grant thy favor unto me extremely distressed, who crave thy favor, and, good betide thee, whose endeavours have been baffled by Destiny.
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume One. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam by Valmiki

They startled me, for not until they fell upon my ears did I recall the stories told to me weeks before."
— from The House of Whispers by William Le Queux

The musical lapsing of the water now fell upon my ears distinctly, and I saw a little way off a quaint old fountain, standing half a stonecast clear of the wall.
— from Earth's Enigmas: A Volume of Stories by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

Franciæ depictis, coram rege et regina Karolantes, et servi civium ad illud festum, ut moris est, de cupa servientes, omnibus intuentibus inauditum proviserunt gaudium.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 1 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

And so it proved; for until my early dinner—or rather luncheon—was served, I was employed in unpacking and arranging my books and ornaments.
— from Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey

But speaking of angels and you hear their wings, they say; for unless my eyes deceive me there comes Chatz right now.
— from Afloat; or, Adventures on Watery Trails by Douglas, Alan, Captain

Once again the scraping and scratching noise falling upon my ear disturbed me, and caused me to lie listening.
— from The Boy Tar by Mayne Reid

His poem The Old Vicarage, Grantchester , reprinted in Heffer's Cambridge Poems , first fell under my eye during the winter of 1913-14.
— from Shandygaff A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader by Christopher Morley