No le salvan ni sus argucias, ni sus escondites, ni sus artimañas.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Buck hurried on, swiftly and stealthily, every nerve straining and tense, alert to the multitudinous details which told a story—all but the end.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

once more Eilewydd, n. a musician Eilfaint, n. second rate Eilfam, n. second mother Eilfydd, a. being second or like Eilfyddu, v. to imitate Eiliad, n. a constructing Eiliant, n. a constructure Eilier, n. the butterfly Eilig, a. apt to glide Eilio, v. to place alternately, to plait, to construct Eilir, n. regeneration; spring Eiliw, n. aspect, figure, hue Eiliwed, n. reproach, shame Eiloes, n. second age Eilon, n. music, melody: n. a hart, a roebuck Eilun, n. a copy; a resemblance; an image: an idol Eilunaddolgar, a. idolatrous Eilunaddoli, v. to worship idols Eilunaddoliad, n. idolatry Eilunaddolwr, n. an idolater, a worshipper of images Eiluniad, n. an imitation Eiluniaeth, n. an imitating Eiluniant, n. portraiture Eilunio, v. to imitate Eilw, n. music, melody Eilwaith, n. second time or turn Eilwy, n. that makes melody Eilwydd, n. love meeting Eilydd, n. a musician Eilyg, n. melody; delight Eilyw, n. music, melody Eilywiant, n. minstrelsy Eill, pron.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

She expended no small amount of ingenuity in a sort of weeding process of her lodgers, announcing her intention of receiving henceforward none but people who were in every way select.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Pero que, sin embargo, no siéndole a él completamente conocida la lengua árabe, remitiría el documento a Madrid a un condiscípulo suyo que estaba empleado en la Comisaría de los Santos Lugares, [82-2] a fin de que 05 lo enviara a Jerusalén, donde lo traducirían al castellano; por todo lo cual sería conveniente mandarle al madrileño un par de onzas de oro, [82-3] en letra, [82-4] para una jícara de chocolate.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

A man of the most extensive benevolence and strictest integrity in his general deportment has done something equivocal; nay, something apparently harsh and cruel; we are slow to condemn him; we give him credit for acting with a good motive and for a righteous purpose; we rest satisfied that “if we only knew everything he would come out blameless.”
— from The Fallen Star, or, the History of a False Religion by E.L. Bulwer; And, A Dissertation on the Origin of Evil by Lord Brougham by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The American seaports exhibit now such a scene of speculation and excessive fortunes, acquired not by the most deserving members of the community, as must make any person who has yet some principles left, and is not altogether corrupted or dazzled by the prospect, desirous of withdrawing himself from these parts, and happy to think he has a retreat, be it ever so poor, that he may call his own.
— from The Life of Albert Gallatin by Henry Adams

Es co tempore quo proximè ad te scripsi nullum fuit mihi prorsus tempus animi laxandi, ita fui partim itineribus partim multis gravibus & impeditis rebus administrandis distractus, nec satis etiam nunc scio an mihi liceat aliqua intermissione frui
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

It passed successively through the hands of Lewis Schiavonetti, Engleheart, Niccolo Schiavonetti, and was finally done by James Heath.
— from William Blake, the Man by Charles Gardner

In another mound of the same group with a similar excavation nothing save a single skull was found.
— from Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States by Cyrus Thomas

She edged nearer, staring at him.
— from Victory by Lester Del Rey

Miss Penclosa's manner was quite the same as usual, and she expressed no surprise at my having come in spite of my note.
— from The Parasite: A Story by Arthur Conan Doyle