Cada juez está auxiliado por escribanos o notarios, en cuyas oficinas, llamadas notarías, o escribanías, se presentan las demandas que constituyen la primera pieza de autos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

9.—LOS EXTRANJEROS EN AMÉRICA (to the vocabulary section) Vengan en hora buena aquéllos que penetran al seno de la República por el pórtico siempre abierto del preámbulo constitucional, [1] dispuestos a labrar su propio bienestar, contribuyendo al engrandecimiento común al amparo de leyes cuya generosidad sólo podría compararse a la del surco dilecto, que retribuye sin usuras el sudor de las frentes; vengan en hora buena esos inmigrantes sanos y buenos, que incorporan nuevos glóbulos rojos a las arterias de la República y de cada uno de los cuales podría decirse, parafraseando un concepto ajeno, que es como una letra en el gran abecedario del progreso nacional; vengan en hora buena esos extranjeros como Burmeister, como Jacques, como Berg, como Gould, como Groussac, que han ilustrado el pensamiento de varias generaciones argentinas, y cuyo paso por los bufetes de la pública enseñanza nos permite afirmar que la República diluída en la triunfal policromía de un potente organismo joven, es americana por el rígido concepto de su propia autonomía; española por su tradición y por su lengua; alemana por su ejército; inglesa por la pujanza de sus grandes capitales; francesa por sus tendencias literarias e italiana por el hondo y permanente amor a las cosas altas y las cosas bellas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Modern Socialism would fain create a profane counterpart to jesuitism: everybody a perfect instrument.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

That the Prisoners were possess’d of a Ship of 40 Guns, called the Royal Fortune , and were at an Anchor under Cape Lopez , on the Coast of Africa , with two others: When his Majesty’s Ship the Swallow , (to which the Deponents belong’d, and were Officers,) stood in for the Place, on Saturday the 10th of February 1721-2: The largest had a Jack, Ensign and Pendant flying, (being this Royal Fortune ,) who on Sight of them, had their Boats passing and repassing, from the other two, which they supposed to be with Men: The Wind not favouring the aforesaid King’s Ship, she was obliged to make two Trips to gain nigh enough the Wind, to fetch in with the Pyrates; and being at length little more than random Shot from them, they found she slipped her Cable, and got under Sail.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Jondrette exclaimed:— “A painting by a master, a picture of great value, my benefactor!
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

There, through scarcely visible clefts and joinings, escaped a pungent vapor, which infected the atmosphere of the cavern.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

[3324] sauvi animum delectatione allicere, ob incredibilem rerum varietatem et jucunditatem, et ad pleniorem sui cognitionem excitare , chorographical, topographical delineations, to behold, as it were, all the remote provinces, towns, cities of the world, and never to go forth of the limits of his study, to measure by the seale and compass their extent, distance, examine their site.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

No doubt it is very fine when there is no enemy, when it is just exercise and parade and sham fight.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

At the same period his brother obtained a commission in one of the regiments of Guards; and, that being so, their father apportioned the two young men a joint establishment, and placed it under the more or less detached supervision of Ilya Koliazin, their maternal uncle and a leading tchinovnik .
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

According to Secretary Pickering, Adams was asked to withdraw the nomination and refused, but a few days later, on hearing that the committee intended to report against confirmation, he sent in a message nominating Chief Justice Ellsworth and Patrick Henry, together with Murray, as envoys extraordinary.
— from Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism by Henry Jones Ford

Notwithstanding her treasonable practices, and the frequent proofs of her envy and jealousy, Edward always paid her the most dutiful respect and deference, and treated his brother with the most tender affection.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

“She does that,” said Jack, enthusiastically, “and pincushions and mats.”
— from The Delectable Mountains by Arthur Colton

Church edifice just erected and pews sold.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer

No man had ever seen the blow, or the man who gave it; but in the confusion they were in, every man made his own conjecture, and declared it as a thing known, most agreeing, that it was done by the French, from the angry discourse they thought they had heard from them, and it was a kind of miracle, that they were not all killed that instant: The sober sort that preserved them from it, having the same opinion of their guilt, and only reserving them [307] for a more judicial examination, and proceeding.
— from The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II. by Theophilus Cibber

And then, besides, he had just eaten a potato; that would be sufficient for him.
— from The Downfall by Émile Zola

It did not prevent their undertaking a joint expedition against Puebla de los Angelos, which was in possession of a strong Mexican force under Flores.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 1, July 1849 by Various

"You can lean back in the car," began Jane enthusiastically, "and pretend you're a grand little Queen!"
— from The Poor Little Rich Girl by Eleanor Gates

Tully has therefore very justly exposed a Precept delivered by some Ancient Writers, That a Man should live with his Enemy in such a manner, as might leave him room to become his Friend; and with his Friend in such a manner, that if he became his Enemy, it should not be in his Power to hurt him.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

Let me quote the dictionary:— “ Chore , char , a small job; especially a piece of minor domestic work, as about a house or barn; ... generally in the plural.”
— from The Face of the Fields by Dallas Lore Sharp