You insane old man. que no sé cómo he tenido I don’t know how I remain calma para haberte oído calm, and listen, it’s plain sin asentarte la mano!
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Franky mechanically produced his own case and lighted up.
— from That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan

The sea-smells, aromatic, pungent, floated inland to be married, in hot haste, to a perfect harem of clover and locust scents.
— from In and out of Three Normandy Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd

It was Grant's purpose, while holding Lee rigidly to his defensive works, to push his own columns around Lee's right and into his rear, 258 threatening and ultimately cutting these three lines of communication.
— from The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct, Volume 2 (of 2) A Narrative and Critical History by George Cary Eggleston

The former are certainly in a minority, but their minority is, like Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman’s in the previous House of Commons, a large one, and what they lack in numbers they make up in weight and beak-force.
— from Birds of the Plains by Douglas Dewar

All these he destroyed as he advanced, and at length found himself under the purple hills of Cintra and looking up into the Tagus.
— from English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by James Anthony Froude

The most delectable and pleasant historye of Clitophon and Leucippe, written in Greeke, by Achilles Stacius an Alexandrian and nowe newlie translated into Englishe by W. B[urton].
— from English Translations from the Greek: A Bibliographical Survey by Finley Melville Kendall Foster

Wait to write, until Nugent has had the opportunity of pleading his own cause, and Lucilla has decided on her future life.
— from Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins

No doubt the surface of the earth at the Antarctic Pole had once cooled, and later become covered with water, though with very shallow water—probably at some points by none, at others by a depth of ten or fifteen feet.
— from A Strange Discovery by Charles Romyn Dake

Sculptured in pure white marble, it seems a very soul just escaped from its prison house of clay, and, listening to those 'sounds seraphic,' bearing away to the great Beyond.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various