No resistió la muchacha al soborno, realizado con bonitas palabras y mucho dinero, 20 porque ignoraba la procedencia de las esquelas y el verdadero sentido de tales líos; pues si llegara a entender que todo era una nueva diablura de D. José, aunque éste le gustaba mucho, no hiciera traición a su señora por todo el dinero del mundo.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Sólo digo a usted una cosa (añadió, mirando al bravo por encima de los espejuelos), y es, que como mi sobrina va allá, como es probable, muy probable, ¿no es eso, Remedios?...
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

For the Romans, as I have stated before, 198 habitually enrol four legions each year, each consisting of about four thousand foot and two hundred horse; and when any unusual necessity arises, they raise the number of foot to five thousand and of the horse to three hundred.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Remember that you had promised to be mine, long ere you engaged yourself to the church; that your situation will soon be evident to the prying eyes of your Companions; and that flight is the only means of avoiding the effects of their malevolent resentment.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Sign this parchment: I will bear you from hence, and you may pass your remaining years in bliss and liberty. Enjoy your existence: Indulge in every pleasure to which appetite may lead you:
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

195 Sabato a ſedize de marſo 1521 deſſemo neLa aurora soura vna tera alta lõgi trecento legue delle yſolle de li latroni laq a L e yſola et ſe chiama Zamal eL cap o gñale nel giorno ſeguente volſe diſmontare in vnalt a yſola deſhabitata ꝓ eſſere piu seguro q̃ era di dietro de queſta ꝓ pigliare hacqua et q a lque diporto fece fare due tende in terra ꝓ li infermi et feceli amazare vna porcha
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

En ocasiones saltan de repente [6] lagartos enormes, parecidos a las iguanas, y huyen revolviendo la basura del suelo; en otras nada se ve, pero se oye un sordo roznar en la espesura, y el ruido de un andar lento al través de la maleza; de continuo [7] y por todas partes la animación de la naturaleza en el esplendor de su abandono; y a raros intervalos, a orillas del camino y escondida se encuentra la choza miserable de algún vecino de Guayabito, pálido y enfermizo:
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

[3] Casiano había vuelto a tomar la escopeta y estaba en el fondo de la quebrada, por el lado de abajo.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Ha sufrido las terribleces de la escasez y está padeciendo las amarguras de la enfermedad y, sin embargo, no hay en él
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

[52-3] vestida, coronada de cabellos como la nieve, trémula por la edad y el entusiasmo, encorvada, llorosa, suplicante, llevando en las manos un azafate de mimbres secos lleno de melocotones, cuyos matices rojos y dorados se 25 veían debajo de las verdes hojas con que estaban cubiertos.... Los gendarmes quisieron detenerla....
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Write me one of your amusing letters, and take our love, especially Your ever affectionate Ba's.
— from The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 2 of 2) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

They trust that the book you have just read has, in part at least, earned your esteem for other titles in their list.
— from Abraham Lincoln by Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron

Just as the raven follows an army to batten on the dead, so that fellow there stalks on in front of strangers in order to empty their pockets—and you, who call yourself an interpreter, and in learning Greek have forgotten the little Egyptian you ever knew, mark this: When you have to guide strangers take them to see the Sphinx, or to consult the Apis in the temple of Ptah, or lead them to the king's beast-garden at Alexandria, or the taverns at Hanopus, but don't bring them here, for we are neither pheasants, nor flute-playing women, nor miraculous beasts, who take a pleasure in being stared at.
— from The Sisters — Volume 1 by Georg Ebers

He coloured, and looked embarrassed, yet evidently with feelings of pleasure.
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 4 of 5) by Fanny Burney

"Ye will come unto the chamber of the Sangraal sixty paces down the corridor to thy left eftsoon ye enter the chief fortress, sir knight," one of the warders called down.
— from A Knyght Ther Was by Robert F. Young

“ Again: we find our Saviour saying, ‘ He that believeth on me hath everlasting life; ’ ‘ Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you; ’
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

As a result, his ambition grows to clear more land each year, explained a company official.
— from A Stake in the Land by Peter A. (Peter Alexander) Speek

y la limitacion cierta y verdadera de la dicha razon es que la jurisdiccion civil y politica es inferior á la espiritual y eclesiastica y que para materias que le tocan
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea