no se oponga a nuestra felicidad, y concédeme el favor de esta unión, que juro sea buena ante el mundo como lo es en mi conciencia.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

After all, the idea was quite logical; a parasite and landowner naturally supposed that intelligence was a marketable commodity like everything else, and that in Switzerland especially it could be bought for money.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

well, your romantic, novel-writing folks had an eye to the main chance, like everybody else.
— from Little Nobody by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

[79] "Hubo muchos soldados heridos, los mas que se herian unos á otros, entendiendo los que venian de fuera, que los que martillaban con las espadas eran Moros, porque solamente les alumbraba el centellear del acero, y el relampaguear de la polvora de los arcabuces en la tenebrosa escuridad de la noche."—Ibid.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second King of Spain, Vol. 3 And Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by William Hickling Prescott

Seldom, even in the literary history of modern France, has there been a more strange and shocking episode than the publication by George Sand of the little book called "Elle et Lui," and the rejoinder to it by Paul de Musset called "Lui et Elle."
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

by Robert Lynd. * 4s Maunsel & co., London (Eng ed 17-25871)
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

Many spiritualists must commit like errors every day.
— from Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research by Michael Sage