—La fama de las tortillas de Méjico y el resto de la América tropical ha llegado a este país. ¿
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
Or sit on a door-mat and sledge home over the snow on it, you exasperating rodent?’ ‘Do—you—mean—to—say,’ cried the excited Rat, ‘that this door-mat doesn’t TELL you anything?’
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Your extreme right does me exceeding wrong: But take it to you, i'the devil's name!
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe
37 Pepe Rey no gustaba de entablar vanas disputas, ni era pedante, ni alardeaba de erudito, mucho menos ante mujeres y en reuniones de confianza; pero la importuna verbosidad agresiva del canónigo necesitaba, según él, un correctivo.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
Tenía Jacintito semblante agraciado y carilleno, con mejillas de rosa como una muchacha, y era rechoncho de cuerpo, de estatura pequeña, tirando un poco a pequeñísima, y sin más pelo de barba que el suave bozo que lo 5 anunciaba.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
y el rostro de su prima.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
y el recelo del delincuente.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
Chile y el Río de la Plata y chigüil en otras partes.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
Me conecté a Internet a petición de los clientes de mi pequeña empresa de traducción, porque simplificaba el envío de textos a traducir y el regreso de textos traducidos.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
Being generally middle-aged, or still further advanced, they were by no means graceful in figure; for the comeliness of the youthful Englishman rapidly diminishes with years, his body appearing to grow longer, his legs to abbreviate themselves, and his stomach to assume the dignified prominence which justly belongs to that metropolis of his system.
— from Our Old Home, Vol. 2 Annotated with Passages from the Author's Notebook by Nathaniel Hawthorne
For you each rising day My maids, tho’ tax’d, shall twine a huge bouquet:
— from The Rolliad, in Two Parts Probationary Odes for the Laureatship & Political Eclogues by Joseph Richardson
“Barkin’ that yet, eh!” retorted Doc, sharply.
— from The One-Way Trail: A story of the cattle country by Ridgwell Cullum
This is the purpose to further the unity of whatever spiritual life you can influence, and to do this by your every rational deed, precisely in so far as your powers permit.
— from The Sources of Religious Insight by Josiah Royce
Did you ever read de Maupassant's 'Diamond Necklace?'" "I never did."
— from The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story by Chester K. Steele
Being generally middle-aged, or still farther advanced, they were by no means graceful in figure; for the comeliness of the youthful Englishman rapidly diminishes with years, his body appearing to grow longer, his legs to abbreviate themselves, and his stomach to assume the dignified prominence which justly belongs to that metropolis of his system.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various
Bode’s complete translation was issued probably in October, 13 possibly late in September, 1768, and bore the imprint of the publisher Cramer in Hamburg and Bremen, but 40 the volumes were printed at Bode’s own press and were entitled “Yoricks Empfindsame Reise durch Frankreich und Italien, aus dem Englischen übersetzt.”
— from Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer
¿Será para que pueble sus soledades el alarido de los ranqueles y el relincho de los potros orejanos ; o para que se
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López
'Parfois vn Sabbat finy à vn coin de paroisse, on s'en va le tenir à vne autre, où le Diable mene les mesmes personnes: mais là, on y en rencontre d'autres '.
— from The Witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology by Margaret Alice Murray
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