A quien quise provoqué, Any whose wish I detected con quien quiso me batí, I challenged, and any I chose, y nunca consideré and I never once reflected que pudo matarme a mí that any I killed of those aquel a quien yo maté. might have had me dissected.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

While Jeff’s ultra-devotion rather puzzled Celis, really put off their day of happiness, while Terry and Alima quarreled and parted, re-met and re-parted, Ellador and I grew to be close friends.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“No, she went straight to her room, and she told me that, if I should see you, I was to say to you that you must come to her there at a quarter to seven.”
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

We observe, however, that his actions are such as are likely to achieve a quite different end B, and that B is the sort of end that often seems to be aimed at by animals and savages, though civilized people are supposed to have discarded it.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

It came with so overpowering a force,–it was such a new revelation to his spirit, of the depths in life that had lain beyond his vision, which he had fancied so keen and clear,–that he was unable to ask a question.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

When we landed I did take occasion to send him back a the bateau while I did get a ‘baiser’ or two, and would have taken ‘la’ by ‘la’ hand, but ‘elle’ did turn away, and ‘quand’ I said shall I not ‘toucher’ to answered ‘ego’ no love touching, in a slight mood.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“Eh! th’ art a queer, old-womanish thing,” she said.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Raoul tried to ask a question, but the Persian's hand was on his mouth and he heard a voice which he recognized as that of the commissary of police.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

But if philosophy ever finds in the State C that perfection which she herself is, then will be seen that she is in truth divine, and that all other things, whether natures of men or institutions, are but human;—and now, I know, that you are going to ask, What that State is: No, he said; there you are wrong, for I was going to ask another question—whether it is the State of which we are the founders and inventors, or some other?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

When he knew this, and that he must soon go to the island and leave his acquired and alien kingdom to others, he opened the treasures of which he had for the time free and unrestricted use, and took an abundant quantity of gold and silver and precious stones, and giving them to some trusty servants sent them before him to the island.
— from Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by W. A. (William Alexander) Clouston

This Department is conducted in the interest of stamp and coin collectors, and the Editor will be pleased to answer any question on these subjects so far as possible.
— from Harper's Round Table, November 19, 1895 by Various

Nobody needed to ask any questions, because they had eyes, and could easily see what was the matter.
— from Fred Fenton on the Crew; Or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School by Allen Chapman

In the authorities above quoted we have endeavored to show that a steady atmosphere, a persistent devotion to the work, accompanied by acute vision, and also a talent for observation, are all the factors needed, not only to confirm the remarkable discoveries of Schiaparelli and Lowell, but possibly to detect, at favorable moments, new features which have escaped the eyes of these keen observers.
— from Mars and Its Mystery by Edward Sylvester Morse

On the film side of the negative carefully draw round the more critical outlines, such as figures, faces, trees, &c., with a very fine-pointed brush, or a pen, dipped in opaque black varnish, gradually broadening the line to about a quarter of an inch.
— from A Handbook of Illustration by A. Horsley (Alfred Horsley) Hinton

She turned abruptly and quitted the room.
— from The Fortune of the Landrays by Vaughan Kester

A pupil of Adolphe Adam, Delibes seems to have acquired his master's lightness of touch and gift of melody, to which he was able to add a quality of distinction which the composer of "Le Postillon de Lonjumeau" did not possess.
— from Masters of French Music by Arthur Hervey

After dinner I conducted them on shore; and, before I returned on board, the chief gave me a fine large turtle, and a quantity of yams.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time by Robert Kerr

Use a capital to begin an important statement or to ask a question.
— from Plain English by Marian Wharton