She has felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered everything, lost everything, mourned everything.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

—¿Qué requisito debe llenar el médico extranjero que desee ejercer su profesión en la América latina?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Pero en los establecimientos mayores el precio
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Sic volvenda tas commutt tempora rerum: Quod fuit in pretio, fit nullo denique honore; Porro aliud succedit, et e contemptibus exit, Inque dies magis appetitur, floretque repertum Laudibus, et miro est mortales inter honore.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I have not yet said, if after long expectation, much expense, travel, earnest suit of ourselves and friends, we obtain a small benefice at last; our misery begins afresh, we are suddenly encountered with the flesh, world, and devil, with a new onset; we change a quiet life for an ocean of troubles, we come to a ruinous house, which before it be habitable, must be necessarily to our great damage repaired; we are compelled to sue for dilapidations, or else sued ourselves, and scarce yet settled, we are called upon for our predecessor's arrearages; first-fruits, tenths, subsidies, are instantly to be paid, benevolence, procurations, &c., and which is most to be feared, we light upon a cracked title, as it befell Clenard of Brabant, for his rectory, and charge of his Beginae ; he was no sooner inducted, but instantly sued, cepimusque [2087] (saith he) strenue litigare, et implacabili bello confligere : at length after ten years' suit, as long as Troy's siege, when he had tired himself, and spent his money, he was fain to leave all for quietness' sake, and give it up to his adversary.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“Now, Jup,” cried Legrand, evidently much excited, “I want you to work your way out upon that limb as far as you can.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

En cambio nuestros mercados latinoamericanos están menos expuestos a sufrir trastornos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

In the first years of my favour, the Marquis de Louvois enjoyed my entire confidence, and, I must admit, my highest esteem.
— from Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Complete by Madame de Montespan

The result of all this extended labor was wholly inconclusive, but as subsequent trials of other motors (such as compressed air, carbonic-acid gas, electric batteries, and the like) proved futile, and (before the steam engine) only the rubber gave results, however unsatisfactory, in actual flight, from which anything could be learned, I shall give some brief account of these experiments, which preceded and proved the necessity of using the steam engine, or other like energetic motor, even in experimental models.
— from Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight, Parts I and II Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Volume 27 Number 3, Publication 1948, 1911 by Charles M. (Charles Matthews) Manly

Well, let 'em marry 'em; you just sit by the sea and wait for a fair breeze.
— from Plays by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky

Last evening my employer, Mr. Gordon Perry, asked me to become his wife.
— from The Undercurrent by Robert Grant

Lady Ennismore might easily win his Grace; only, I dare say, she would run away from him, as she did from Lord Ennismore."
— from The Manoeuvring Mother (vol. 3 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady