Qué hace el aire puro y fresco?
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

The parson of the parish—a connoisseur in music—took it down from the old man’s whistling; and to this day, if you go to the cave on Hallow eve and put your ear to the aperture, you may hear the tune ‘Ffarwel Ned Pugh’ as distinctly as you may hear the waves roar in a sea-shell.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

But justly as you have exceeded all promise, Your mistress shall be happy.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

That, corporal, said my uncle Toby, with all the triumph the goodness of his nature would permit——That shews the difference in the character of the mistress 256 and maid——had the fortune of war allotted the same mischance to me, Mrs. Wadman would have enquired into every circumstance relating to it a hundred times——She would have enquired, an’ please your honour, ten times as often about your honour’s groin——The pain, Trim, is equally excruciating,——and Compassion has as much to do with the one as the other—— ——God bless your honour!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

That, corporal, said my uncle Toby, with all the triumph the goodness of his nature would permit—That shews the difference in the character of the mistress and maid—had the fortune of war allotted the same mischance to me, Mrs. Wadman would have enquired into every circumstance relating to it a hundred times—She would have enquired, an' please your honour, ten times as often about your honour's groin—The pain, Trim, is equally excruciating,—and Compassion has as much to do with the one as the other— —God bless your honour!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

There can be no better English version of this famous book, in which Saint Augustine tells the story of his eager and passionate youth—a youth tossed about by the contending tides of Love, human and divine.
— from Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang

[43] in 1660 and remained there until 1662: Abraham Coen en el Brasil remoto del principe Mauricio halló el agrado prospero y noble, y oy del Rey Empireo goço la luz en ideal palacio.
— from The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen by Simon Wolf

Now there is as much need for tact as for kindliness in your behavior, in order to inculcate in her, without her knowing it, a feeling of security, which will lead her to lay back her ears, and prevent you from using rein or spur at the wrong moment.
— from The Physiology of Marriage, Complete by Honoré de Balzac

as Olivares was acting now, might with his experience and prestige yet win the day.
— from The Court of Philip IV.: Spain in Decadence by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

"All right," said he; "enter, and presently you will be conducted to him you seek."
— from Cressy and Poictiers: The Story of the Black Prince's Page by John G. (John George) Edgar

She was clad in a gown that any shepherdess among them might have envied, a pale yellow crepy thing shot through with gleams of gold.
— from Daphne: An Autumn Pastoral by Margaret Pollock Sherwood

Then ask your subject to raise the head high and to shut his eyes, and place your right fist on the back of his neck, and your left hand on his forehead, and say to him: "Now think: I am falling backwards, I am falling backwards, etc., etc. . ."
— from Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion by Emile Coué

Mr. L. H. Estes, a prominent young lawyer, who spent the month of August at Chautauqua, was elected president, and really it is to his earnest efforts that this circle owes its existence.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, January 1884 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Promotion of True Culture. Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. by Chautauqua Institution