[64-8] en la guerra de España, [64-9] ora en su larga peregrinación por otras naciones.—Llegados a Varsovia, [64-10] donde nos detuvimos algunos días, Risas se puso gravemente enfermo, de fiebre cerebral, por resultas 20 del terror pánico que le había acometido desde que entramos en tierra polonesa; y yo, que le tenía ya cierto cariño, no quise dejarlo allí solo cuando recibimos la orden de marcha, sino que conseguí de mis Jefes que Juan se quedase en Varsovia cuidándolo, sin perjuicio de que, [64-11] ] resuelta aquella crisis de un modo 25 o de otro, saliese luego en mi busca con algún convoy de equipajes y víveres, de los muchos que seguirían a la nube de gente en que mi regimiento figuraba a vanguardia.—¡Cuál fué, pues, mi sorpresa cuando, el mismo día que nos pusimos en camino, y a las pocas horas de haber echado a andar, [64-12] se 30 me presentó mi antiguo asistente lleno de terror, y me
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

[A; a12] make a dull, rustling sound.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He wore a pearl pin stuck in his black tie and a ring with a dark red stone on his little finger; the tip of a white silk handkerchief showed in the pocket of his double-breasted jacket.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

From the sorrow of a Hottentot to that of a woman in large buckram sleeves, with several bracelets on each arm, an architectural bonnet, and delicate ribbon strings, what a long series of gradations!
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich. SUBSECT.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Then, as the flush of dawn became stronger, they opened the glass doors and went on to the giddy balcony, feeling triumphant as two angels in bliss, looking down at the still sleeping world, which would wake to a dutiful, rumbling, sluggish turmoil of unreality.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Sometimes of Syllables, as in Ecchos and Doggerel Rhymes: Sometimes of Words, as in Punns and Quibbles; and sometimes of whole Sentences or Poems, cast into the Figures of Eggs, Axes , or Altars : Nay, some carry the Notion of Wit so far, as to ascribe it even to external Mimickry; and to look upon a Man as an ingenious Person, that can resemble the Tone, Posture, or Face of another.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

It is a beautiful conception; but, as de Ruggiero suggests, do we not thus return, by a devious and difficult path, to the pre-Hegelian, pre-Kantian, position of religious platonicism?
— from The Philosophy of the Practical: Economic and Ethic by Benedetto Croce

“You is jes as wet as a drownded rat,” said the mulatto woman, who met Clotelle as she entered the negro's cabin.
— from Clotelle; Or, The Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; Or, The President's Daughter by William Wells Brown

The conflagration spread from a single point in all directions, running swiftly, roaring in a sheet of fire, licking up all before it.
— from The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White

On the most weatherward gable the iron in the stone had shed a dark red stain under the lash of many winter storms, and some tough lichens had incrusted patches of the surface; but, for the rest, the walls rose in the univied nakedness of all ruins in our climate, which has no clinging evergreens wherewith to pity and soften the forlornness of decay.
— from A Chance Acquaintance by William Dean Howells

At length, as Dick remained standing before a bookcase in heavy silence, he spoke, his tone an odd mixture of peremptoriness and persuasion.
— from The Obstacle Race by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

@Jordan:Geography Location: Middle East, northwest of Saudi Arabia Geographic coordinates: 31 00 N, 36 00 E Map references: Middle East Area: total: 89,213 sq km land: 88,884 sq km water: 329 sq km Area - comparative: slightly smaller than Indiana Land boundaries: total: 1,619 km border countries: Iraq 181 km, Israel 238 km, Saudi Arabia 728 km, Syria 375 km, West Bank 97 km Coastline: 26 km Maritime claims: territorial sea: 3 nm Climate: mostly arid desert; rainy season in west (November to April)
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Saudi Arabia Geographic coordinates: 31 00 N, 36 00 E Map references: Middle East Area: total: 92,300 sq km land: 91,971 sq km water: 329 sq km Area - comparative: slightly smaller than Indiana Land boundaries: total: 1,635 km border countries: Iraq 181 km, Israel 238 km, Saudi Arabia 744 km, Syria 375 km, West Bank 97 km Coastline: 26 km Maritime claims: territorial sea: 3 nm Climate: mostly arid desert; rainy season in west (November to April)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The colors range from pale yellow to a dark red, some being very brilliant.
— from Principles and Practice of Fur Dressing and Fur Dyeing by William E. Austin

The best sense-hitting means of compelling attention, directly relates some sense effect to the salesman's purpose.
— from Certain Success by Norval A. Hawkins