Nevertheless, one hundred and forty pounds, to which was added the dignity that comes of good living and universal respect, enabled him to carry himself in right royal fashion.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

The conquests of the Incas, with their levelling and unifying rule, effaced most of these distinctions.
— from South America: Observations and Impressions New edition corrected and revised by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

He looked at us rather earnestly, and at last addressed Mrs. ———, and announced himself as Mr. Hinchman,—a clergyman whom she had been trying to find in Salisbury, in order to avail herself of him as a cicerone; and he had now ridden hither to meet us.
— from Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Una vuelta a los ganados, una visita a una cría o a la querencia de un caballo predilecto, invierte una pequeña parte del día; el resto lo absorbe una reunión en una venta o pulpería .
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

It was one thing to let a useless race expire, quite another to think of its being forced back to— "But—can't anyone think of anything else to do?"
— from DP by Arthur Dekker Savage

Laertes, as usual, rambling everywhere about the town, had happened, in some coffee-house, to meet with a man, who, a short time ago, had suffered under violent attacks of melancholy.
— from Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Although the Cumberland pencils were soon in great request as being the first to really meet an exigency long felt, it is their excellent quality that has given them their lasting and universal reputation especially in the World of Art.
— from The Lead Pencil Manufactory of A. W. Faber at Stein near Nürnberg, Bavaria An Historical Sketch by Faber-Castell (Firm)

Entre las ramas de un olmo Le acompaña un ruiseñor, Enamorado testigo De quantas vezes saliò.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

One of them was quite unmanageable: he spoke French, but was not such a good scholar as the Russian nobles generally are; he made sad havoc with that fashionable language, and used rude expressions, which were very unpleasant to the party.
— from Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War. With The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions by Alexis Soyer