DON JUAN: Ciutti, nadie como yo: Ciutti, there’s no one like me: ya viste cuán fácilmente you saw how easily el buen alcaide prudente the good and wise constabulary se
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Lady Lucas began directly to calculate, with more interest than the matter had ever excited before, how many years longer
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

My name, indeed, has been so long and so constantly before the public eye, that I am not only willing to admit the naturalness of the interest which it has everywhere excited, but ready to satisfy the extreme curiosity which it has inspired.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Henry Esmond, edited by H.B. Moore, in Standard English Classics.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Texts: Works, Haworth edition, edited by Mrs. H. Ward (Harper); Complete works (Dent, 1893); Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Wuthering Heights, in Everyman's Library.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

For he who grants what not one of his enemies expects, because the guilt that is on their conscience is so great, beyond a doubt carries off the prize for virtue: for while he tempers justice with what is nobler and more merciful, in self-restraint he surpasses those who are merely moderate in their vengeance; and in courage he excels because he thinks no enemy worthy of notice; and his wisdom he displays by suppressing enmities and by not handing them down to his sons and descendants on the pretext of strict justice, or of wishing, and very reasonably too, to blot out the seed of the wicked like the seed of a pine-tree.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

The gentleness and goodness of her parents, together with the scenes of her early happiness, often stole on her mind, like the visions of a higher world; while the characters and circumstances, now passing beneath her eye, excited both terror and surprise.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

“This was the state prison, from which no one had ever escaped, but, with the aid of God, I took flight at the end of fifteen months and went to Paris.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In other words, any naturally radioactive heavy element eventually becomes nonradioactive lead.
— from Nuclear Clocks Revised by Henry Faul

The artist was for a time dismayed, at being confronted by the chemist who held that he had explained emotion because he had analysed the substance of tears; and for a time the scientific spirit drove the spirit of art into cliques and coteries, so that artists were hidden, like the Lord's prophets, by fifties in caves, and fed upon bread and water.
— from Joyous Gard by Arthur Christopher Benson

Her attitude, the turn of her neck, supplies all face, and intimates more than he ever expressed by features; and that she would not have gained by showing them, may be guessed from her companion on the foreground, who, though highly elegant and equally pathetic in her action, has not features worthy of either.
— from The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 3 (of 3) by Henry Fuseli

She knew that Stella had seen in Penloe a young man greatly beyond her expectations; even beyond her ideal.
— from A California Girl by Edward Eldridge

He told of Cicely’s wild words after the burning of Cranwell Towers, from which burning she and her familiar, Emlyn, had evidently escaped by magic, without the aid of which it was plain they could not have lived.
— from The Lady of Blossholme by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

My folks tell me I have enough education, but I think I know better than they.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 06, June, 1890 by Various

And would the king that hath everything else be lacking in a common thing like a cousin?
— from A Boy's Ride by Gulielma Zollinger

It is true that he ceased to wear, as a personal concession to the Prime Minister, by whose side he sat, the grimy coal miner's suit in which he had first appeared in the House to the captivating of all hearts; but, more fortunate than Caractacus, he escaped envy by continuing to occupy his humble villa in Kilburn.
— from The Secret of the League: The Story of a Social War by Ernest Bramah

In her demure, slate-coloured dress, with the white apron and pale, rigid face, she looked like a woman who had never known what it was to love or be loved; but every now and then a flash in the sombre depths of her eloquent eyes betrayed the fiery nature hidden beneath that calm exterior.
— from The Man with a Secret: A Novel by Fergus Hume

He envied every busy boy he saw.
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery