“How handsome Mrs. Pontellier looked!” said Madame Lebrun to her son.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Después que la cosecha se recoje y se seca, cuesta poco trabajo conducirla a lomo de mula por los senderos menos transitables en apariencia.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Every moment Plantagenet longed still more for the opportunity of exploring the uninhabited chambers; but Venetia shook her head, because she was sure Lady Annabel would not grant them permission.
— from Venetia by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

My present life separates me from Him just in the degree determined by the actual state of childhood of our race.
— from The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman

Mr. Pimble looked still more astonished when he felt the second note between his fingers.
— from Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Effie Afton

"You must not just drift, my Paul, like so many of your countrymen do.
— from Three Weeks by Elinor Glyn

Should you persist in your fatal project, at the moment when you are about to commit this frightful act, perhaps my poor little sprig may catch your eye; perhaps it will remind you of the days of your childhood, those happy days that have fled away; those Sundays when your mother’s smile was upon you as you filled your little arms with flowers, and brought your childish offering to her knees.
— from Under a Veil: A Comedietta in One Act by George M. (George Melville) Baker

One thing, however, was evident to all the world, and that was what Miss Plympton laid so much stress on, the fact that he had profited by her father's ruin, and had won gold and influence and position out of her father's tears and agonies and death.
— from The Living Link: A Novel by James De Mille

'Oh, my poor Lucy,' said Mrs. Crowley, with a sob in her voice.
— from The Explorer by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham