El que esto decía era D. Juan Tafetán, un sujeto amabilísimo, y de los pocos que habían manifestado a Rey en el
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Retiring from the trade, Vervelle became, in his own way, an amateur artist; wished to form a gallery of paintings, and believed that he was collecting Flemish specimens, works of Tenier, Metzu, and Rembrandt; employed Elie Magus to form the collection, and, with that Jew as go-between, married his daughter Virginie to Pierre Grassou.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

The mere action rallied everyone else to sanity.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

SEE Bessey, Mabel A. RYDEN, E. E. The foreign policy of the United States
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1961 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

The night wind was chill on the edge of the marsh, and Roger, expecting every minute that the birds would begin to come into the circle of light, dared not move.
— from The Boy With the U. S. Survey by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

Now, have a look—this is a Linux computer with some of the most advanced robotics ever engineered.
— from Makers by Cory Doctorow

he asked, with a fleeting consciousness that he had made a really elegant effort.
— from Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series by James Edmund Dunning

He had made a comfortable fortune in the dry-goods business in New York, and had built himself a country-house at Scotch Plains, going in to New York every morning and returning every evening.
— from That Affair at Elizabeth by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Nature permits Bruce and me to eat each other, and if we managed it skilfully we could attack each other's extremities at the same time, as long as we did not encroach on our vital machinery, and really eat each other up, as young lovers would like to do.
— from Fletcherism: What It Is; Or, How I Became Young at Sixty by Horace Fletcher