La pobre madre halla consuelo a su dolor en la religión 5 y en los ejercicios del culto, que practica cada vez con más ejemplaridad y edificación.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The old woman smiled, and answered in the same low, mysterious voice, "It is the blood of Lady Eleanore de Canterville, who was murdered on that very spot by her own husband, Sir Simon de Canterville, in 1575.
— from The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

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— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

la esperanza de capturar mercados con tan sencillos procedimientos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

consoler , adoucir l'affliction, les ennuis de. Constantinople , capitale de l'empire ottoman.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Note 89 ( return ) [ Celebrant quidem solemnes istos dies omnes ubique urbes quae sub legibus agunt; et Roma de more, et Constantinopolis de imitatione, et Antiochia pro luxu, et discincta Carthago, et domus fluminis Alexandria, sed Treviri Principis beneficio.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

By the way, Lord Ernest, did Corkran say anything to you about an intention to throw over his job on the Candace ?" "No.
— from It Happened in Egypt by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Je me levai, et, de ce pas délibéré de l’homme qui vient de prendre une irrévocable décision, je repris le chemin de Sarlande.
— from Le Petit Chose (Histoire d'un Enfant) by Alphonse Daudet

Little Esperanza de Calderón, though plain enough, was nevertheless not without attractions, consisting partly perhaps in her youth, and partly in her mouth, on which, with its full fresh lips and even white teeth, sensuality had already set its seal.
— from Froth: A Novel by Armando Palacio Valdés

"It smells like eau de Cologne.
— from Affinities, and Other Stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart