no se hartaba de contar las cosas extraordinarias que había visto, durante la peregrinación, y en la capital misma.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Don’t pretend you enjoyed lunch, for you loathed it, but forgive me by coming again, alone, or by asking me to you.”
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Si no en caracteres visibles, llevábalas él expresadas vagamente en la luz de su mirar, en el poderoso atractivo que era don propio de su persona, y en las simpatías a 15 que su trato cariñosamente convidaba.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Comprendiendo que era indispensable proceder con prontitud y energía, la señora y el canónigo emprendieron sin 170 tardanza sus investigaciones.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Es preciso indicar que María Remedios se deseñoraba bastante (pase la palabra) en casa de doña Perfecta, y esto le era desagradable, 25 porque también en aquel espíritu suspirón había, como en todo
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Adiós, pues; y en la ardua lucha Farewell, then; in the intense en que va a entrar tu existencia, battle your being will enter de tu dormida conciencia listen to the voice you’ll hear la voz que va a alzarse escucha; of your dormant conscience: porque es de importancia mucha it’s of the first importance meditar con sumo tiento you ponder with deepest care la elección de aquel momento your choice of that moment, where que, sin poder evadirnos, what we cannot evade al mal o al bien ha de abrirnos will open the door of the grave la losa del monumento.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

[2] procuran traer parroquia y evitar la concurrencia de los competidores, vendiendo
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

"I shall, however, to please Your Eminence, lay the particulars of your conversation before him."
— from Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 1 by Lewis Goldsmith

Divide a moment, as men measure time, Into its million-million-millionth part, Yet even less than that the interval
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

Now it was only a matter of waiting, which, under almost any circumstances, is the most difficult task to perform patiently; yet every lad who has hunted wild turkeys is well schooled in such work, and it can safely be said that we did not risk a failure by being over-eager.
— from With the Swamp Fox: A Story of General Marion's Young Spies by James Otis

[520] "Los quales, aunque pueden ser á proposito para administrar sus abadias, olvidan el beneficio recebido del principe y en las cosas de su servicio y beneficio comun de la provincia son durissimos, y tan rudes para que se les pueda persuadir la razon, como seria qualquier menor hombre del pueblo."
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

It pleased y e Lord to inable them this year to send home a great quantity of beaver, besids paing all their charges, & debts at home, which good returne did much incourage their freinds in England.
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

“See, how pretty that dimple in her chin is,” she said, “and oh, my pet, your eyes look wiser, and bigger, and saucier than ever.
— from A World of Girls: The Story of a School by L. T. Meade

“Yes, you did promise, you exasperating little Rose, you!
— from Patty's Social Season by Carolyn Wells