y no fué al parecer cumplido, y asimismo le exigieron el reconocimiento de una hipoteca sobre las tierras de Alamillos , 10 hecha en extraño documento por su tío.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

—¿Cómo se procede a la venta de las lanas en el Río de la Plata?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

La inmigración, que primero afluyó al norte, hoy se dirige a las orillas del Plata, [2] para difundirse luego en el resto del continente.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

We propose to devote now some little space to exploring in search of proverbial allusions a little of the literary wealth of our country, and we may say at once that proverbs, like everything else, require discreet use, and it is not difficult to overdo the thing.
— from Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme

[L.] Erase, efface, remove, delete, blot out.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

[997] "Son discours, qu'il lut presque tout entier, fut long et ennuyeux.... rempli de lonanges fades, et de flatteries outrées, fit rougir, et ennuya les assistans."
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird