Grande y alegre sorpresa tuvieron uno y otro cuando se encontraron, y no cesaban de hacerse preguntas y lanzar exclamaciones, ponderando la extraña casualidad que 10 los unía en tal sitio y ocasión.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Ready to argue for six months to practise your Liberal eloquence and in the end you vote the same as the rest!
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I shall have no rest till the House is purified, or the poor young Lady either.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

—¿No hay tratados de reciprocidad con respecto a los títulos profesionales entre esos países y los Estados Unidos?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

[68-1] ni Cristo que lo fundó, [68-2] sino arena pura y limpia, expelida sin cesar por el turbulento Océano, arrebatada por los furiosos vientos del 05
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

But though you do not see it very pretty, Perhaps your little ears could hear it pretty.
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 by George MacDonald

Is it not indescribable happiness to see a trusting woman, half-clad, but wrapped round in her love as by a cloak—modesty in the midst of dishevelment—to see admiringly her scattered clothing, the silken stocking hastily put off to please you last evening, the unclasped girdle that implies a boundless faith in you.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The city did not present a particularly splendid aspect, though its great Duomo was seen in the middle distance, sitting in its circle of little domes, with the tall campanile close by, and within one or two hundred yards of it, the high, cumbrous bulk of the Palazzo Vecchio, with its lofty, machicolated, and battlemented tower, very picturesque, yet looking exceedingly like a martin-box, on a pole.
— from Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The two maidens marked his approach, and at their fright the lady turned, and calling him by name, cried with great anger, "Graelent, put my raiment down, for it will profit you little even if you carry it away, and leave me naked in this wood.
— from French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie, de France, active 12th century

If nothing else will have effect with you, perhaps the thought that you might have saved me from the fate of having an English wife may have some effect in moving you to post your letters early, even though they should not be so long and full.
— from James Gilmour of Mongolia: His diaries, letters, and reports by James Gilmour

“‘Will you bereave me of the right I have conquered from your despair—that of watching more closely over your needs, your pleasures, your life even? Women have one heart always on their side, always abounding in excuses—their mother’s; you never knew any mother but my mother, who would have brought you back to me.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac