¡Helo pálido y entristecido, pugnando por asomar su frente!...
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Valparaíso es la ciudad comercial más importante y el principal puerto de mar en el Pacífico.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

casado o soltero?—pregunta el portero a mi camarada.—Casado, contesta él.—Pues pase Vd., que basta ya esta penitencia para ganar el cielo, por gordos que sean los pecados que se hayan
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Sepa Ud., [6] sin embargo, que hallará oficinas de sanidad en las principales ciudades, cuyos inspectores tienen a su cargo la vigilancia de los domicilios privados, de las casas de comercio y edificios públicos, para asegurarse de que se cumplen las leyes que protejen la salud de la población.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

When you have just seen the woman you love, the sight of any other woman spoils your vision, gives your eyes physical pain.
— from On Love by Stendhal

"The man is drunk, your Excellency," Pseldonimov prompted him again.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Now, your email passwords, please."
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

—Armorial bearings of R. E. Yerburgh, Esq.: Per pale argent and azure, on a chevron between three chaplets all counterchanged, an annulet for difference.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Yes, even Paul Petrovitch felt conscious of a touch of pleasant excitement, and smiled indulgently as he shook hands with the wanderers.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Alsoe, at fathers desire, we made up to y e poor people on our premises theire various losses, which he bade us doe, even if it left him without soe much as a spoon.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

perpetrado contra nuestra Santa Fé catolica y ley evangelica y estaban por punir y castigar y que de ello se seguia deservicio á nuestro Señor y gran daño y perjuicio á la religion cristiana.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2 by Henry Charles Lea

By the by, did you ever play piquet?
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

National holiday: Independence Day, 24 September (1973) Constitution: 16 May 1984, amended 4 May 1991, 4 December 1991, 26 February 1993, 9 June 1993, and 1996 Legal system: NA Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: President Koumba YALLA (since 18 February 2000) head of government: Prime Minister Faustino IMBALI (since 20 March 2001) cabinet: NA elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term; election last held 28 November 1999 and 16 January 2000 (next to be held NA 2004); prime minister appointed by the president after consultation with party leaders in the legislature election results: Koumba YALLA elected president; percent of vote, second ballot - Koumba YALLA (PRS) 72%, Malan Bacai SANHA (PAIGC) 28% Legislative branch: unicameral National People's Assembly or Assembleia Nacional Popular (100 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve a maximum of four years) elections: last held 28 November 1999 (next to be held by NA 2003)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Este [55] bardo argentino dejó a un lado a Dido y Argía, [56] que sus predecesores los Varelas trataron con maestría clásica y estro poético, pero sin suceso y sin consecuencia, porque nada agregaban al caudal de nociones europeas, y volvió sus miradas al desierto, y allá en la inmensidad sin límites, en las soledades en que vaga el salvaje, en la lejana zona de fuego que el viajero ve acercarse cuando los, campos se incendian, halló las inspiraciones que proporciona a la imaginación
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

Europe was involved, and though the heavy masses of Egyptian troops, clinging with strong grip to the land, might seem to hold it fast, yet every peasant practically felt, and knew, that in Vienna or Petersburg or London there were four or five pale-looking men who could pull down the star of the Pasha with shreds of paper and ink.
— from Eothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Alexander William Kinglake

Your economical, preaching Poetry apparently supposes that a surgical Stone-cutter is an Artistical one; and a Pulpit or a Sinai a Hill of the Muses.
— from The Campaner Thal, and Other Writings by Jean Paul

(since 23 January 2005) head of government: Prime Minister Yuliya TYMOSHENKO (since 18 December 2007); First Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr TURCHYNOV (since 18 December 2007); Deputy Prime Ministers Hryhoriy NEMYRYA and Ivan VASYUNYK (since 18 December 2007) cabinet: Cabinet of Ministers selected by the prime minister; the only exceptions are the foreign and defense ministers, who are chosen by the president note: there is also a National Security and Defense Council or NSDC originally created in 1992 as the National Security Council; the NSDC staff is tasked with developing national security policy on domestic and international matters and advising the president; a Presidential Secretariat helps draft presidential edicts and provides policy support to the president elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term (eligible for a second term); note - a special repeat runoff presidential election between Viktor YUSHCHENKO and Viktor YANUKOVYCH took place on 26 December 2004 after the earlier 21 November 2004 contest - won by YANUKOVYCH - was invalidated by the Ukrainian Supreme Court because of widespread and significant violations; under constitutional reforms that went into effect 1 January 2006, the majority in parliament takes the lead in naming the prime minister election results: Viktor YUSHCHENKO elected president; percent of vote - Viktor YUSHCHENKO 52%, Viktor YANUKOVYCH 44.2% Legislative branch: unicameral Supreme Council or Verkhovna Rada (450 seats; members allocated on a proportional basis to those parties that gain 3% or more of the national electoral vote; to serve five-year terms) elections: last held 30 September 2007 (next to be held in 2012) election results: percent of vote by party/bloc - Party of Regions 34.4%, Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc 30.7%, Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense 14.2%, CPU 5.4%, Lytvyn bloc 4%, other parties 11.3%; seats by party/bloc - Party of Regions 175, Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc 156, Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense 72, CPU 27, Lytvyn bloc 20 Judicial branch: Supreme Court; Constitutional Court Political parties and leaders: Christian Democratic Union [Volodymyr STRETOVYCH]; Communist Party of Ukraine or CPU [Petro SYMONENKO]; European Party of Ukraine
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Hasn't Joe Smith's father ever told you to love your enemies?" "Periwinkle," protested his aunt weakly.
— from Pearl and Periwinkle by Anna Graetz