This never means a completely doubled list, because, if the two families live in the same city, many names are sure to be in duplicate.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Vió éste que se acercaba otro empleado con un farol pendiente de la derecha mano, el cual movíase al compás de la marcha, proyectando geométricas series de ondulaciones luminosas.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Gracias a esto, estoy ahora mucho más al corriente de los recursos profesionales que existen sobre este tema, y de la verdadera admiración suscitada a nivel internacional por Haití, su cultura, su religión,
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Plusieurs: - d'abord c'est un "genre": depuis plusieurs personnes m'ont dit lancer aussi un mail-roman; - ensuite j'ai aperçu quantité de possibilités que je n'ai pas exploitées et que je me réserve pour un éventuel travail ultérieur; - la contrainte du temps est ainsi très intéressante à exploiter: le temps de l'écriture bien sûr, mais aussi celui de la lecture: ce n'est pas rien de mettre quelqu'un devant la nécessité de lire, chaque jour, une page de roman.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

La toile, c'est le monde au clic de la souris.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Even while the two men are talking and discussing the possibilities of an early surrender, Napoleon himself has forced his way through the tumultuous throng of his supporters, and accompanied by Victor de Marmont and Colonel de la Bédoyère he advances as far as the gate which still stands barred defiantly against him.
— from The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Per vedere ogni ben dentro vi gode l'anima santa che 'l mondo fallace fa manifesto a chi di lei ben ode.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri

You have had three hundred of me--' 'At cards, dear lad; at cards,' Mr. Pomeroy answered easily.
— from The Castle Inn by Stanley John Weyman

Despondency lest she should fail, fear lest she had misinterpreted a character, depression lest this chapter should fall below a preceding in merit, tortured her in succession, but she worked because she believed she had found her place, and to do her best for mankind was her religion.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, April 1885 by Chautauqua Institution

But medical aid could do little for the minister—he was old, and had long been growing feeble, and nobody wondered to hear that he had suffered “a stroke,” and that there was very, very little hope of his recovery.
— from The Laird of Norlaw; A Scottish Story by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

For a moment a cloud dimmed Lucy’s happiness.
— from Captain Lucy in France by Aline Havard

no se pusiessen en lleuar adelante su intento, dando al mensajero algunas cosas de las que lleuaua: el qual supo tan bien obonar a los nuestros, y allanar los pechos alborotados de los Indios, que les dieron lugar de voluntad para que entrassen, que lo hizieron con
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14 America, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

Father and mother are coming down later on."
— from Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie