—Vamos a suponerlo.... —En ese caso, tengo la firme convicción de que entre tú y yo, entre nosotros dos, querida Rosario, se establecerá 20 una armonía perfecta.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
“Now that we know each other, and that you entertain no doubt, I trust, of my devoted love, I wish to ease my conscience and to venture all.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
The government of Italy, and of the young emperor, naturally devolved to his mother Justina, a woman of beauty and spirit, but who, in the midst of an orthodox people, had the misfortune of professing the Arian heresy, which she endeavored to instil into the mind of her son.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon
Have you Ere now denied the asker, and now again, Of him that did not ask but mock, bestow Your su'd-for tongues?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
Subdue the kindled Tiger in your eye, Nor dream that it was sheer necessity Made me thus far relax the bond of fate,
— from Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
[17*] Costatlan, Bernal Diaz also adds here, "Y este nombre de Culua es en aquella tierra, como si dixessen los Romanos hallados."
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
What? DON LUIS: Que de esta casa, Pascual, That for tonight, Pascual quede yo esta noche dentro.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla
Tommy Beresford was one of those young Englishmen not distinguished by any special intellectual ability, but who are emphatically at their best in what is known as a “tight place.”
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
pasó a ellos.... —¡Y esta noche da de cenar a todos los jefes!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Have you Ere now, deny'd the asker , and now again, On him that did not ask, but mock , [with a pretence of asking,] bestow Your sued for tongues?
— from The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Salter Bacon
"Oh yes, to your eye, no doubt.
— from A Woman's Burden: A Novel by Fergus Hume
Yet even now different judges sometimes differ widely in the importance they attach to substantial justice and to legal technicalities; and even now one of the advantages of trial by jury is that it brings the masculine common sense and the unsophisticated sense of justice of unprofessional men into fields that would otherwise be often distorted by ingenious subtleties.
— from The Map of Life Conduct and Character by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Ye shady walks, ye waving greens, Ye nodding towers, ye fairy scenes, Let all your echoes now deplore, That she who form'd your beauties is no more.
— from Dalziels' Illustrated Goldsmith by Oliver Goldsmith
“We neither met any one, Your Excellency, nor did we see any one until we reached Liberty Hall.”
— from Peggy Owen, Patriot: A Story for Girls by Lucy Foster Madison
One spring there came to Grand Pré a young Englishman named Desbra, a long-limbed, ample-chested youth, with whitish hair and ruddy skin, and clear, straightforward blue eyes.
— from Earth's Enigmas: A Volume of Stories by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
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