A small pantomime ensued, curious enough.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Of a truth, he had too long forgotten that he was 'young Swann' not to feel, when he assumed that part again for a moment, a keener pleasure than he was capable of feeling at other times—when, indeed, he was grown sick of pleasure; and if the friendliness of the middle-class people, for whom he had never been anything else than 'young Swann,' was less animated than that of the aristocrats (though more flattering, for all that, since in the middle-class mind friendship is inseparable from respect), no letter from a Royal Personage, offering him some princely entertainment, could ever be so attractive to Swann as the letter which asked him to be a witness, or merely to be present at a wedding in the family of some old friends of his parents; some of whom had 'kept up' with him, like my grandfather, who, the year before these events, had invited him to my mother's wedding, while others barely knew him by sight, but were, they thought, in duty bound to shew civility to the son, to the worthy successor of the late M. Swann.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

[9] Por ejemplo, el pan, especialmente el de mejor calidad, [10] se procura en comercios especiales llamados panaderías, que expenden además bizcochos, bollos, y a veces galletas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Animal largo tiempo desdeñado, no se ha levantado aún a los ojos de los criollos del largo abandono en que vegetaba hace aún un cuarto de siglo; por el contrario es muy buscado de [5] los extranjeros y por esta causa el consumo aumenta extraordinariamente.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

To the far heaven, where gleams a splendid throne, The Poet uplifts his arms in calm delight, And the vast beams from his pure spirit flown, Wrap all the furious peoples from his sight: "Thou, O my God, be blest who givest pain, The balm divine for each imperfect heart, The strong pure essence cleansing every stain Of sin that keeps us from thy joys apart.
— from The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Charles Baudelaire

She possesses every charm, every allurement, but her very fascination is a chief cause of ill to man.
— from Greek Women by Mitchell Carroll

Igitur perterritis ac dubitantibus ceteris, G. Cornelius eques Romanus operam suam pollicitus, et cum eo L. Vargunteius senator con
— from C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino by Sallust

In “Les trois Aveugles de Compiegne,” mine host thus addresses the thirsty wanderers :— “Ci a bon vin fres et nouvel, Ça d’Ancoire, ça de Soissons Pain et char et vin et poissons, Céens fet bon despendre argent,
— from The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day by John Camden Hotten

[379] "Puede ser, pero el Cardenal Espinosa me consultô en saliendo del consejo, i proveí la plaça."—Cabrera, p. 700.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second King of Spain, Vol. 3 And Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by William Hickling Prescott