Así es que antes de presentarme en estas tierras escondí el pergamino ... donde nadie más que yo podrá dar con él. —¡Pues entonces no hay más que hablar!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

no porque entonces no hubiera cuentos y chismes,
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Perhaps even now his suspicions are aroused.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

They are happy, it is true, and have all things, to another man's judgment, that heart can wish, or that they themselves can desire, bona si sua norint : yet they loathe it, and are tired with the present: Est natura hominum novitatis avida ; men's nature is still desirous of news, variety, delights; and our wandering affections are so irregular in this kind, that they must change, though it must be to the worst.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

¡Pues entonces no había V. nacido! —¡Yo lo creo! —¡Ah, sí!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

El viajero que descienda a las playas cubanas y visite las poblaciones y las campiñas, así como el que hoy, después de treinta años de ausencia, se admira de cómo camina esta tierra privilegiada, envidiará no haber nacido bajo sus ceibas y sus palmas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

—Dígolo porque esta noche, hace un momento, vi que la señora y la niña estaban haciendo al modo de una reconciliación.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

In addition, private enterprise networks have an estimated 1,000,000 hosts using TCP/IP (Source: Matrix News August 1993.)
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

At Chiriû the landlord of the inn where we lunched came privately to Noguchi and asked him for four ichibus as "tea money," on the ground that Sir R. Alcock had given that sum in 1861, but his request was refused, and he was forced to content himself with what we had paid elsewhere, namely, half an ichibu .
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Wasn't that priestly enough?" "No," he snapped.
— from Tell England A Study in a Generation by Ernest Raymond

I also believe this, I do not despair of finding one, for perhaps, even now, he exists.
— from The Saint by Antonio Fogazzaro

me, Phil," ejaculated Nancy Holt, pressing close to her lover's side.
— from The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

—Your correspondent H. B. C. states that the earliest use he has met with of this phrase is in Dean Swift's Polite Conversation , written, as appears by the preface, about 1731; but he will find, in Dampier's Voyages , the same phrase in use in 1686, or perhaps earlier: not having the work itself at hand, I cannot refer him to the passage, but he will find it quoted in the United Service Journal for 1837, Part III.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 110, December 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

A representation of a mare suckling a foal—a design analogous to those in which Epona feeds foals—shows that her primitive equine nature had not been forgotten.
— from The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. (John Arnott) MacCulloch

The fear instinct, as the subtle and basic instinct of life, is well described by Kipling:— Very softly down the glade runs a waiting, watching shade, And the whisper spreads and widens far and near; And the sweat is on thy brow, for he passes even now— He is Fear, O Little Hunter, he is Fear!
— from Nervous Ills, Their Cause and Cure by Boris Sidis

Pretty soon the man becomes so heavy around the waist that he notices his discomfort, and it produces exhaustion; now he becomes more and more averse to exercise, and the facia, or fat, having the better of the battle, begins to penetrate even the fiber of the muscles.
— from Keeping Fit All the Way How to Obtain and Maintain Health, Strength and Efficiency by Walter Camp

Dico che questo fu perchè essi non hebbero mai intentione di ribellarsi dal suo sig
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott