Full of proud consciousness that she had done something bold and out of the common, passionately in love, and, as she imagined, passionately loved, exhausted, looking forward to a sweet sound sleep, Zinaida Fyodorovna was revelling in her new life.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

to; superfluous in phrases like el bueno—— D. Juan ; tr. by possessive case, or by attributive use of noun, as sala—— periódicos periodical room; —— fuego all on fire; los—— dentro the persons inside; hay ... de ... there are ... and ...; es—— notar it is to be observed.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

She is precisely like every new convert in every reform.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

And everywhere, too, the gay and well-known red pom-pon bobbed on the caps of French blue-jackets, and British marines stalked in pairs, looking every inch the soldier with their swagger sticks and their vizorless forage-caps.
— from The Crimson Tide: A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

By the agreement of 1896 the National Telephone Company surrendered its previous licence except for certain definite districts called "Exchange Areas," a large number of which were specified in the agreement.
— from The History of the British Post Office by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon

A year or so is plenty long enough for any person to be with our children.
— from The Mother and Her Child by William S. (William Samuel) Sadler

It was, itself to start with, a perfectly pious, well-conducted world, saying its prayers like everybody else, and containing nothing within its placid bosom which in the least resembled the free-thinkers of {348} ancient days.
— from A Son of the Soil by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

In one of their spasms of inaction, Budge asked:— "What makes some of the men in church have no hair on the tops of their heads, Uncle Harry?" "Because," said I, pausing long enough to 237 shake Toddie for trying to get my watch out of my pocket, "because they have bad little boys to bother them all the time, so their hair drops out."
— from Helen's Babies by John Habberton

While confined to the narrow waters of Cook Strait, the fleet preserved its line ahead formation, but after passing Cape Farewell the two divisions of five ships each steamed in parallel lines eight cable lengths apart.
— from New Zealanders at Gallipoli by Fred Waite