Sin embargo, llegó a sentirse tan fuera de su centro, llegó a verse tan extranjero, digámoslo así, en aquella tenebrosa ciudad de pleitos, de antiguallas, de envidia y de maledicencia, que hizo propósito de abandonarla sin dilación, insistiendo al 10 mismo tiempo en el proyecto que a ella le condujera.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

sed cum lux altera venit, Jam cras hesternum consumpsimus; ecce aliud cras Egerit hos annos, et semper paulum erit ultra.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

“I only meant, sir, that Sir Charles led a very retired life, and we were able to look after his wants.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

She came like a vivified figure out of the Magasin des Modes—blandly smiling in the most beautiful new clothes and little gloves and boots.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Need I mention those dedicated to Help, Safety, Concord, Liberty, and Victory, which have been called Deities, because their efficacy has been so great that it could not have proceeded from any but from some divine power?
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The traveller drew rein, amazed at the trim and features of Don Quixote, who rode without his helmet, which Sancho carried like a valise in front of Dapple's pack-saddle; and if the man in green examined Don Quixote closely, still more closely did Don Quixote examine the man in green, who struck him as being a man of intelligence.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

At one time the jewelry store in which he worked as a shipping clerk lost a valuable necklace, and after the police of Chicago had failed to find a clew, James' special ability was reported and he was given a week's vacation
— from How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict

Substituting Charles, like a villain as he was, in his own affair with Grace Davoren, he contrived to corroborate the falsehood by the tragic incident of the preceding night.
— from The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

“As you never invited me to the rural collation, I was not aware of its existence,” said Cherry laughing, as Virginia approached him.
— from An English Squire by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

Half the men here, including old Marlingspike, the venerable commodore, dance attendance upon her from morning till night, and she certainly looks a very bright little, tight little craft in her nautical get-up, which is the regulation thing with the women here.
— from The Pit Town Coronet: A Family Mystery, Volume 2 (of 3) by C. J. (Charles James) Wills

If Mathieson had not been drinking, he might have been touched by the sight of Nettie; so very white and delicate her little face looked, trembling and eager, within that border of her black hood, on which the snow crystals lay, a very doubtful and unwholesome embroidery.
— from Little Nettie; or, Home Sunshine by Susan Warner

"Do you not see," continued Aramis, "that Mr. Vanel, in order to purchase your appointment, has been obliged to sell a property which belongs to his wife; well, that is no slight matter; for one cannot displace, as he has done, fourteen or fifteen hundred thousand francs without some considerable loss, and very serious inconvenience."
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas

“In that case, I should certainly launch a vigorous campaign.
— from The Clock Strikes Thirteen by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt