y en condenar y maldecir la perfidia y crueldad de los invasores, vamos a narrar hoy un hecho que, sin entibiar en el corazón el amor a la patria, fortifica otro sentimiento no menos sublime y profundamente cristiano:—el amor a nuestro prójimo;—sentimiento 20 que, si por congénita desventura de la humana especie, ha de transigir
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
“If you had,” pursued Mr. Lorry, “perhaps you would attend to it.”
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Master Lieutenant, pray you, by your leave, How doth the Prince, and my young son of York?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
—Restad las arrugas y las barbas, y sumad los treinta años que manifiesta la pintura, y resultará que el maestro tenía (p32) razón cuando decía que ese religioso muerto era a un mismo tiempo retrato y obra de un religioso vivo.—Ahora bien: ¡Dios me confunda
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
“You may count upon me, my lord, provided you want to make a complete upheaval of the city.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
Here I've a place, sir, to put back my legs, Please you to lay it on, sir, [LIES DOWN WHILE PEREGRINE PLACES THE SHELL UPON HIM.] —with this cap, And my black gloves.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson
Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame, and start not so wildly from my affair.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
did not I tell you?—Sir Toby, my lady prays you to have a care of him.
— from Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare
By this mean you may likewise provide yourselves with a fund of matter for future use, which, without this assistance, the memory would not retain.
— from The Boarding School; Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils Consisting of Information, Instruction and Advice, Calculated to Improve the Manners and Form the Character of Young Ladies. To Which Is Added, a Collection of Letters, Written by the Pupils to Their Instructress, Their Friends, and Each Other. by Hannah Webster Foster
Long-term credits granted during the 1962-69 period amounted to 6.4 billion lei, or an average of 800 million lei per year.
— from Area Handbook for Romania by Eugene K. Keefe
i, p. 141, quotes from Benavides, Memorial, p. 43, the following account of how the churches and convents in the pueblo region were built: “los hā hecho tan solamēte las mugeres, y los muchachos, y muchachas de la dotrina; porque entre estos naciones se vsa hazer las mugeres las paredes, y los hombres hilan y texen sus mantas, y van á la guerra, y a la caza, y
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship
'Would you please to look into my little place yourself, madam?' said a decent-looking woman, who advanced to meet me.
— from Discipline by Mary Brunton
Fruit small or medium, long, pale yellow, tinged with red; flesh melting, juicy, very refreshing; first half of Sept. Bill Campbell.
— from The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick
But you like being a butterfly, and when you’ve made ladies pale you’re happy: and there they’re to stick and wither for you.
— from Complete Short Works of George Meredith by George Meredith
“So, my lord, part you so soon from the Fair Maid of Perth?
— from The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day by Walter Scott
Because of their blinding the people he said to them: 'You are hypocrites, blind guides, fools; you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; you devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayers; you compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of gehenna than yourselves.
— from The Harp of God: Proof Conclusive That Millions Now Living Will Never Die by J. F. (Joseph Franklin) Rutherford
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