Y así seguía el juego por largo rato, ellos aguantando un diluvio de agua que los dejaba ensopados, y ellas recibiendo los huevos de cera, que se estrellaban en sus manos, perfumándolas con esquisitas esencias, no sin que
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
So don't think that because there is nobody paying any attention to you, that you are free to unlearn everything you ever learned, and go back till you are not fit for Standard Three.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
ever yet, ever, at any time, Lu. 19.30.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield
Se transparentaba el cultivo de los clásicos españoles y el conocimiento de todas
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
But this will not enter your ears; it hurteth your good people, ye tell me.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Torciendo luego a la derecha, en dirección a la catedral, cuya corpulenta fábrica dominaba todo el pueblo, tomaron la calle del Condestable, en la cual, por ser estrecha y empedrada, 15 retumbaban con estridente sonsonete las herraduras, alarmando al vecindario, que por ventanas y balcones se mostraba para satisfacer su curiosidad.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
“He is eighty, your Excellency.”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
There is nothing that, in its own place and for the time it lasts, is not a product of necessity, and therefore capable of being fully justified; and it is this fact that makes circumstances of every year, every month, even of every day, seem as though they might maintain their right to last to all eternity.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer
“Your features, and especially your eyes.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
‘Hold hard there,’ interposed the mottled-faced gentleman, with sudden energy; ‘your eyes on me, gen’l’m’n!’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
As she took it, she said, in the frank way that never failed to win him, “I think you must be tired; but if exercise is necessary, employ your energies to some purpose and put your mother’s basket of silks in order.
— from Behind a Mask; or, a Woman's Power by Louisa May Alcott
In what legislation do we not find these fictions, which even yet exist, absurd and ridiculous as they are, among the ancient laws of modern nations?
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Edward Gibbon
She has wit in abundance, and the handsomest heel, elbow, and tip of an ear, you ever saw.
— from William Wycherley [Four Plays] by William Wycherley
Why not? Always a savin and exceptin your ever onnurable onnur, as aforesaid.
— from Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
And what doctor examined your eyes?
— from Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission
I am Ever yours, E. G. 512.
— from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2) by Edward Gibbon
And indeed, in the general, all the days of our pilgrimage here are evil, yea, every day has a sufficiency of evil in it to destroy the best saint that breatheth, were it not for the grace of God.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan
“Economies?” “Yes, economies of content.
— from Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905 by Various
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