El buen gusto, el sentido de la oportunidad, la elegancia y la sutileza para descubrir círculos concéntricos interiores son características que sólo ofrece la literatura francesa.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
But I never knew; for you may recollect that on last evening your lordship detained me in conversation some time after dinner.
— from Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
Never any body could be so desirous to goe to the North as my wife is, especially just comming from the divertions of London, except your ladyship or myself, who longs to be established there, that we may at least be out of the way of such inhuman proceedings as we saw, upon all accounts, this year at London.
— from Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume III. by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.
Tell me, briefly, distinctly, and without delay, what fell out last evening." "You led us to assault that younker, whom you know; and when we would have set upon him, and finished his business easily, he blew a hunting horn, and fifteen or sixteen stout fellows in full armor came down the bank from behind and shut up the cave's mouth—you know as well as I do." "So far I do, most certainly," replied the conspirator, "but what then?" "Why, then, thou wouldest not hear reason; but, though the youth swore he would not betray thee, must needs lay on, one man against sixteen; and so, as was like, gottest thine head broken by a blow of a boar-spear from a great double-handed Thracian.
— from The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Henry William Herbert
The trees which were to form the frame of our farm house stood on a piece of land eight yards long by five wide.
— from The Swiss Family Robinson, Told in Words of One Syllable by Lucy Aikin
Do you know how large a part of life, even young life, is made of the days that have never been lived?
— from Real Folks by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
In 1688 an assessment for the town gives the names of 500 ratepayers, who lived in seventeen streets or lanes; eighteen years later (in 1679), when the oath of allegiance was again taken, there were about 800 attestors.
— from A History of Lancashire by Henry Fishwick
It made you think of little eyes, you long had waited for, which never looked into yours; of little feet, you long had waited for, which never made music in your house.
— from Letters of Peregrine Pickle by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
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