¡Ojalá que la juventud estudiosa de nuestro país diera este paso a que con todas mis 25 fuerzas la incito!
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

After that Mr. Moore and I went as far as Fleet-street together and parted, he going into the City, I to find Mr. Calthrop, but failed again of finding him, so returned to Mr. Crew’s again, and from thence went along with Mrs. Jemimah [Mrs. Jemimah, or Mrs. Jem, was Jemima, eldest daughter of Sir Edward Montagu.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Dies ist zwar ein altes Projekt, aber zum ersten mal werden jetzt endlich die Mittel dafür zur Verfügung gestellt.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

AVELLANEDA: Señor don Juan, escondido Don Juan, secretly, algún misterio hay aquí.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Elle organise des rencontres entre les utilisateurs et les éditeurs juridiques et de bases de données, ainsi qu'une journée annuelle sur un thème.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Duae Veneres duo amores; quarum una antiquior et sine matre, coelo nata, quam coelestem Venerem nuncupamus; altera vero junior a Jove et Dione prognata, quam vulgarem Venerem vocamus.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[643] they shall oversee that no prowling officer, under colour of authority, shall insult over his inferiors, as so many wild beasts, oppress, domineer, flea, grind, or trample on, be partial or corrupt, but that there be aequabile jus , justice equally done, live as friends and brethren together; and which [644] Sesellius would have and so much desires in his kingdom of France, a diapason and sweet harmony of kings, princes, nobles, and plebeians so mutually tied and involved in love, as well as laws and authority, as that they never disagree, insult, or encroach one upon another.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Death travels with us; death attends Our steps until our journey ends, Death, when the traveller wins the goal, Returns with the returning soul.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

La cinchada se juega entre dos ginetes que atan los caballos entre sí con un lazo, tirando en opuestas direcciones para hacer retroceder al contrario.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

[244] Grinling Gibbons, the great wood-carver, born at Rotterdam, and whose genius John Evelyn discovered, lived here after leaving the Belle Sauvage Yard.
— from Haunted London by Walter Thornbury

If it is desired to save the labor of making journal entries daily, a memorandum of these amounts may be kept and a journal entry made at the end of the month.
— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 01 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence

return Footnote 5: Francis Rawdon, second Earl of Moira (1754-1826), created Lord Rawdon (1783), and Marquis of Hastings (1817), married, in 1804, the Countess of Loudoun. return Footnote 6: Edward Harley (1773-1848) succeeded his uncle as fifth Earl of Oxford in 1790, and married, in 1794, Jane Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. James Scott, Vicar of Itchin, Hants.
— from The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

She turned quickly in the direction of his glance, and saw Flavia, just entering, dressed for dinner and lit by the effulgence of her most radiant manner.
— from The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories by Willa Cather

As Jeanne eloquently declared with her sombre eyes, whose flashes disturbed the old man so sorely, they were playing the parts of the father and the little girl while her mother was absent.
— from A Love Episode by Émile Zola

It is always difficult to judge either distance or location by sound, when the wind is blowing.
— from Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger by John Masefield

Not much,” he assented, sleepily, in his hoarse voice, with just enough deference, no more, and barely suppressing a yawn.
— from 'Twixt Land & Sea: Tales by Joseph Conrad

In Chapter II, "Don Erminio," said Jacinto, "evidently doesn't approve of his dinner." was changed to "Don Erminio," said Jacinta, "evidently doesn't approve of his dinner."
— from For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss