'To be sure,' pursued Eugene, reflecting, 'he is not in the secret of our pecuniary affairs, so perhaps he may be in an easy frame of mind.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

For some probably economical reason it was usually a woman who was chosen for this particular duty, and Groby gave as his motive in selecting Tess that she was one of those who best combined strength with quickness in untying, and both with staying power, and this may have been true.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Twelve or fourteen days later I set out for Europe, and had I had an uneasy conscience I should have tried to escape in some port en route, especially Singapore, where I went ashore and when other passengers who had passports for Spain staid over.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

Spanish mackerel, silvery white and black color, with no scales, popularly eaten raw: Scomberomorus commersoni and guttatus , and others.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Indeed, it is time we should realize and fully fructify those germs we also hold from Italy, France, Spain, especially in the best imaginative productions of those lands, which are, in many ways, loftier and subtler than the English, or British, and indispensable to complete our service, proportions, education, reminiscences, &c....
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Estas últimas están relativamente bien dotadas en apoyo jurídico, ya sea por el recurso a los servicios internos de litigios, ya sea por la contratación de compañías especializadas.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

—Ya verá Ud. eso bien claro aquí: Entra Ud. por el Amazonas; sigue por el río Negro, luego remonta este río durante algunos días hasta que llega
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

“With a man so poor, every reduction must be great.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

singular peculiar, especial, rare, extraordinary.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

ALIDA C. AVERY 1865 It was a good deal to organize and maintain such a department as hers in the face of popular opinion at that time, and I think much of her stiff professional etiquette resulted from the idea of upholding the equality of women physicians with men in the same calling, and being over sensitive to indifference and snubs.
— from Earliest Years at Vassar: Personal Recollections by Frances Ann Wood