For I am here, don Juan; mi mano asegura Don Juan; my hand preserves esta mano que a la altura your outstretched hand, that serves tendió tu contrito afán, to lift your heart on high, and y Dios perdona a don Juan God forgives Don Juan, al pie de mi sepultura. by my grave, as love deserves.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

No, por Dios; mas si cerrado No, by God, but if you seguís en que aquí han venido insist on phantoms again fantasmas, lo sucedido come, let me tell you how I explain oíd cómo me he explicado.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

A certain amount of relief also was experienced by reflecting upon the injuries which they were inflicting on the enemy; for the fleet as it sailed round Peloponnesus destroyed many small villages and cities, and ravaged a great extent of country, while Perikles himself led an expedition into the territory of Megara and laid it all waste.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

ANT: Speech, oration, harangue, babel, jabber, babble, prattle, dribble, mutter, soliloquy, apostrophe, monologue, interpellation, interruption, silence, taciturnity.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Meanwhile, such despotism has unsettled the brains of the ruling family, as unbridled power doubtless made some of the twelve Cæsars insane; a madman, sporting with the lives and comfort of a hundred millions of men.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

He came to offer me the services of his young brother Petronio during my stay in Ancona, instead of my engaging a valet de place.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

"Hope you'll have a pleasant day, Monsieur," said Mr. Brown.
— from Brown of Moukden: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Herbert Strang

Susceptible in temperament, anticipating with ardent fancy the lot of a lovely and refined woman, and morbidly exaggerating her own slight personal defects, Margaret seemed to long, as it were, to transfuse with her force this nymph-like form, and to fill her to glowing with her own lyric fire.
— from Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Margaret Fuller

," says Taffy; "please, dear Mrs. Steyne, do not afflict me so far.
— from Airy Fairy Lilian by Duchess

Latin prose developed more slowly.
— from A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur E. R. (Arthur Edward Romilly) Boak

Clairon's house assures me that the Prince de Monaco, since his return to his regiment, has not allowed a single day to pass without writing to Clairon; he shows much affection for her, and, among other things, he begs her constantly not to return to the stage until her health is perfectly re-established, and to remember that she has promised to take every care of her life, in order to prolong his.... "D'Hugues de Giversac, who is very much in love with Clairon, and is reputed to have enjoyed her favours, has made all sorts of attempts to gain admission to the house, but I am assured that there is no possibility of his succeeding, and that Clairon's door is closed to him.
— from Queens of the French Stage by H. Noel (Hugh Noel) Williams

A spacious, costly, and particularly dirty marble staircase ascends to the first floor, whereon are the state apartments; they consist of a suite of long, narrow, whitewashed rooms, communicating one with another the whole extent of the building, and each furnished with a prodigious number of shabby old chairs, an antediluvian sofa, and some daubs of paintings in poverty-stricken gilt frames.
— from Excursions in the mountains of Ronda and Granada, with characteristic sketches of the inhabitants of southern Spain, vol. 1/2 by C. Rochfort‏ (Charles Rochfort) Scott