And then as I was hurrying off I heard him say, quite loudly, to the doctor, “I'll have no favourites on my ship.”
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

De dineros y bondad, siempre quita la mitad.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

SYN: Quick, living, breathing, warm, lively, vivacious, alert, existing, existent, safe, subsisting, active, brisk, animated.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Pues, si en dándole paja come paja, Siempre que le dan grano, come grano.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

A l'heure actuelle, il semble que l'internet soit encore considéré majoritairement comme un outil de travail, ou au mieux, comme un outil de consultation de documentation, d'infos en ligne, ou de services (réservations, prix, achats en ligne).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

The carnival rod hopped about among the flowers on its three red stilted feet, and stamped quite loud when it danced the Mazurka; the flowers could not perform this dance, they were too light to stamp in that manner.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

dando una —— por taking a roundabout course through; por más—— s que le des twist and turn it as you will; no hay que darle—— s there's no use talking.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

[96] The devout Romanist, Sœur Jeanne de Jussie, testifies, with mediæval frankness, to the dissolute lives of the Romish clergy: “ Il est bien vray que les Prelats et gens d’Église pour ce temps ne gardoient pas bien leurs vœus et estat, mais gaudissoient dissolument des biens de l’Église tenant femmes en lubricité et adultère, et quasi tout le peuple estoit infect de cest abominable et detestable péché: dont est à scavoir que les péchéz du monde abondoient en toutes sortes de gens, qui incitoient l’ire
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay

He knew that up there in the church choir Grishka Bubnov was singing, one of the worst of his tormentors in the school, and Fedka Dolganov, too, a strong, quarrelsome lout, who had thrashed him more than once.
— from Three Men: A Novel by Maksim Gorky

For wit, this strange, queer, lovely being is fully equal to Beatrice, yet nowise resembling her.
— from Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson

It certainly was not a very gentlemanly thing for the Bavarian cousin to do, but children were not brought up so carefully as they are to-day, and you must not think too harshly of this little Bavarian, which sounds quite like barbarian.
— from Our Little Austrian Cousin by Florence Emma Voigt Mendel

Ainsy Satan avoit logé le pape, sa papauté, tout ce qui est de luy en mon cœur, de sorte que le pape mesme , comme je croy, n'en avoit point tant en soy ne [ni] les siens aussy, comme il y en
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

[67] Bill nearly as long as the head, less compressed than in the last; wings rather long, second quill longest, first and third equal; tail very slightly rounded.
— from A Synopsis of the Birds of North America by John James Audubon