Desde luengos años era maestro de latinidad y retórica en el Instituto, cuya noble profesión dióle gran caudal de citas horacianas y de floridos tropos, que empleaba con gracia y oportunidad.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
how I like your rough English humour!"—"My good Percival!
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
o espinero, pájaro pequeño, de color pardo, hace un enorme nido en los árboles bajos, postes y cercados de las chacras y estancias, con multitud de palitos y de largas y recias espinas de plantas diversas....
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
I know I love you right enough, but Romance...."
— from The Gay Adventure: A Romance by Richard Bird
Ha, at last you recollect, eh?
— from She and I, Volume 1 A Love Story. A Life History. by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
“I think he will let you, right enough,” Hamel observed.
— from The Vanished Messenger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Do you think we will let you ruin everything by your clowning?
— from Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution by Rafael Sabatini
Oh,” she struck her breast, “what do you know of life, you rich, easy-going man?
— from The Green Mummy by Fergus Hume
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