[65-2] a cuidar a Risas al verlo caer en su presencia atacado de una fiebre cerebral...—Llegados a casa de la buena mujer, y cuando ésta ayudaba a desnudar al enfermo, Juan la vió palidecer de pronto 15 y apoderarse convulsivamente de cierto medallón de plata, con una efigie o retrato en miniatura, que Risas llevaba siempre al pecho, bajo la ropa, a modo de talismán o conjuro contra los polacos,
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

When the Quadruple Alliance against France had been concluded, and the situation under Thiers' ministry was regarded as very critical, my concierge tried to reassure me one day by saying: 'Monsieur, il y a quatre hommes en Europe qui s'appellent: le roi Louis Philippe, l'empereur d'Autriche, l'empereur de Russie, le roi de Prusse; eh bien, ces quatre sont des c…; et nous n'aurons pas la guerre.'
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

These three men were thoroughly religious and virtuous citizens; I was nothing if not irreligious, and Venice did not contain a greater libertine.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“My faith, monsieur, he was in such trouble that I doubt if he can have retained a very clear recollection of me.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

See what ruffians and villains come out against me; see what monsters oppose me; see what hideous countenances come to frighten us!
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

It may easily be imagined how joyously this news was received at Vera Cruz, without my spending many words upon it.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

They abused their fortune, without considering their past, or their future, condition; and their rapine and venality could be equalled only by the extravagance of their dissipations.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Then he left Vanikoro, headed toward New Zealand, dropped anchor at Calcutta on April 7, 1828, and returned to France, where he received a very cordial welcome from King Charles
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

[Pg 426] such a nebula as that in Andromeda, which with our most powerful instruments appears only as a mere cloud, is really a vast cluster of stellar points.
— from The Beauties of Nature, and the Wonders of the World We Live In by Lubbock, John, Sir

477 The waters we sailed in are, of course, entirely unlighted, and very badly charted; in the Dangerous Archipelago through which we were fools enough to go, we were perfectly in ignorance of where we were for a whole night and half the next day, and this in the midst of invisible islands and rapid and variable currents; and we were lucky when we found our whereabouts at last.
— from Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, October 1899 by Various

Fill in with a tabulated comparison of the values of diamonds, radium, and veal cutlets since the meat strike; and let it run to a half page."
— from Sixes and Sevens by O. Henry

The molluscs, like the next two groups with which we have to deal, have made a conquest of the land, though in the present instance it cannot be regarded as very complete.
— from Evolution by James A. S. (James Anderson Scott) Watson

In India and Egypt, from whence cotton is sent in bales, presses must have a long stroke; and unless they can be worked rapidly, a very considerable amount of plant is required to get through a moderate quantity of work.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 by Various

The year following, Sir Thomas Egerton, of Heaton Park, raised “The Royal Lancashire Volunteers,” and in 1782 the inhabitants of Manchester raised another volunteer corps of 150 men to serve in the American War.
— from A History of Lancashire by Henry Fishwick

This is a case that represents a very common type of Combined Stammering and Stuttering, and a type that is not so quickly cured as might be imagined.
— from Stammering, Its Cause and Cure by Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

The governor returned a very civil answer, and ordered us a pilot.
— from A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV by Anson, George Anson, Baron

Novinskiy Bul'var 19/23, Moscow mailing address: APO AE 09721 telephone: [7] (095) 252-2451 through 2459 FAX: [7] (095)-4261/4270 consulate(s): St. Petersburg, Vladivostok Flag: three equal horizontal bands of white (top), blue, and red @Russia, Economy Overview: Russia, a vast country with a wealth of natural resources, a well-educated population, and a diverse industrial base, continues to experience severe difficulties in moving from its old centrally planned economy to a modern market economy.
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency