Ahora, en el momento presente de nuestra historia, la hallamos sentada junto al pupitre, que es el confidente 20 único de sus planes y el depositario de sus cuentas numéricas con los aldeanos, y de sus cuentas morales con Dios y la sociedad.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

"Polly," cried Phronsie, as they hurried over the stairs, "put your ear down, do."
— from Five Little Peppers Grown Up by Margaret Sidney

necesidad y esto es solamente para yr en demanda de quiuira y de aquellos pueblos que decia el indio que llemauan turco porque yr por donde fue el campo de franc co uasques coronado el grandissimo rodeo porque salen de mexico a el poniente siento y diez leguas
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

There will be no suspicion providing you exercise due caution."
— from The Doctor of Pimlico: Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime by William Le Queux

She is just about the tallest and stoutest person you ever did see.
— from Girls of Highland Hall: Further Adventures of the Dandelion Cottagers by Carroll Watson Rankin

ye ain't goin to stow this citizen away in that ar place, be ye?' says I. "'Mas'r,' returns he, ''tis just the snuggest place ye ever did see; why!
— from The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Timothy Templeton

P Agua dulce entre tulares Fresh water in the tule swamps, San Joaquin River Q Rancherias de Indios Amigos Villages of friendly Indians R Punta de los Quatro Evangelistas Point of the four Evangelists S Bosques de Palo Colorado, Pino, y roble Forests of redwood, pine, and oak T Punta de San Antonio Point St. Anthony V Remate del Estero del Sueste End of the southeast bay X Punta de Concha Snail shell point Y Ensenada de los Llorones Cove of those who weep or cove of the spurs.
— from The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California by Sherburne Friend Cook

They were just the nicest cleanest, sweetest pigs you ever dreamed of—not that pigs on a farm can't be clean, if they want to, but, somehow or other, no one seems to have time to see that they are clean.
— from Curly and Floppy Twistytail (The Funny Piggie Boys) by Howard Roger Garis

He found that he could safely praise your excellent disposition, open-handed in bestowing benefits, tightly closed against the vices of avarice.
— from Theodoric the Goth: Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Thomas Hodgkin