Lo hicimos bien, ¡voto a tal!, We did well, by the devil, y fuimos tan adelante and such a road we went, con suerte tan colosal with such good luck in our revel, que entramos a saco en Gante that we entered and sacked, in Ghent, el palacio episcopal.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Ampler selections in Garnett, English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (Ginn and Company), which contains in one volume typical works of 33 prose writers from Lyly to Carlyle.
— from Outlines of English and American Literature An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Oft have I seen, in gay, equestrian pride, Some well-rouged youth round Astley's Circus ride Two stately steeds—standing, with graceful straddle, Like him of Rhodes, with foot on either saddle, While to soft tunes—some jigs and some andantes — He steers around his light-paced Rosinantes.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

As I have tried to show, I gave every promise of becoming one of the failures on whom the refining village influences had worked in vain, and for years I am sure that the neighbors prophesied for me a very wicked career and ending, but I do not recall ever having made a trip to the drinking bouts, north or south.
— from My Life by Josiah Flynt

Do not sprinkle them with irritating solutions or powders, or irritating dips, but when the disease once shows itself give each pig or hog affected a dose of Epsom Salts, one ounce to every twenty-five pounds of hog weight, in feed, swill or drinking water.
— from The Veterinarian by Charles James Korinek

The fact that this inventive nation has still not solved its great economic problem, is probably because the trusts have grown necessarily from the organic conditions of American life, and would continue to exist in spite of all legislative hindrances which might be proposed against them.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg

This sort of country doesn’t grow precious stones, I guess, except precious big ones.”
— from The Ruby Sword: A Romance of Baluchistan by Bertram Mitford

I paid particular attention to the Alpine flowers of Tierra del Fuego, and I am sure I got every plant which was in flower in Patagonia at the seasons when we were there.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

Hoc tamen volo sciri pro vero et audiui, illic terræ faciem inhabitatam in maxima multitudine ciuitatum, vrbium, et regionum, quoniam et eorum institores Indiam frequentant, et nunciant sibi inuicem gentes et principes per literas, ac alijs modis destinare sunt visi.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt

Her parents gladly set her aside from the toilers of the family, and she is given every possible advantage of mind and person.
— from Quaint Korea by Louise Jordan Miln