14 —Sí—dijo vivamente el viajero, sonriendo.—En Madrid oí decir que había temor de que se levantaran en este país algunas partidillas...
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

To you the Spaniard may be a pirate, he may be a murderer, a hypocrite, a cheat, anything, just so he keep what he has—but to me the Spaniard should lose everything, empire, power, wealth, everything, before his honor!
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Necesse nos fuerit Primiani causam quem plebs sancta Carthaginensis Ecclesiæ Episcopum fuerat in oculis Dei sortita, Seniorum literis ejusdem Ecclesiæ postulantibus audire atque discutere.
— from A Vindication of the Presbyteriall-Government and Ministry by Ministers and Elders of the London Provinciall Assembly

There is a man-servant here who gets 5 to 6 pounds a month, apparently to do nothing, as he is the only one on the premises who can afford to be idle and smoke his pipe of peace; but servants are so difficult to get in this country, and our host being on the move, having got a better Government appointment at Perth, is anxious not to change now, so, like everybody else, puts up with anything.
— from A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba by M. G. C. (Mary Georgina Caroline) Hall

Cum aute m eam duxisset in uxorem, non int er ueniente m u lta mora, elegantissime forme utriusq ue sexus liberos ex eadem procreauit.
— from Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers

Their chiefs were men of mercantile activity and public spirit, living en evidence , pushing business, giving facilities to everybody, and dealing with money as if possessed of boundless capital of their own.
— from Brazil and the River Plate in 1868 by William Hadfield