10 El sol acaba de ocultarse por el Norte: ¡dentro de una hora volverá a salir!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Well, the only thing to do was for Henry to work away at their dream of a home together--home together, however little, just four walls to love each other in, away from the gaze of prying eyes, none daring to make them afraid.
— from Young Lives by Richard Le Gallienne
He never employs any superfluity of action for the purpose of producing effect, nor does he seek, by first raising his voice almost to a shriek, and then lowering it to a whisper, to startle his audience into a fit of enthusiasm; on the contrary, a studied sobriety, both of speech and gesture, is one of the peculiar features of his acting."
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various
The stir they made only produced excitement, not dismay.
— from History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name by Alexander Mackenzie
They are maintaining that, if P be a relational property which belongs to A, then P is internal to A both in the sense (1) that the absence of P entails qualitative difference from A; and (2) that the absence of P entails numerical difference from A.
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore
["It is reasonable to assume that Mr. CHAMBERLAIN will at once perceive how his position has been altered by becoming the head of a party including many shades of opinion, instead of being, as he has been, the spokesman of a small set of politicians, earnest, no doubt, and active, but not quite in sympathy with all those who shared their fortunes.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, January 9, 1892 by Various
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— from Spinning-Wheel Stories by Louisa May Alcott
Yet he told himself that, while the farm and dairy were in the hands of such capable persons as Dick Evans, old Tom, and Andrew, without some kind of social or physical earthquake, no damage could occur.
— from Babes in the Bush by Rolf Boldrewood
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