In one week I got about 100 e-mails, some from French readers of my book La vallée du risque - Silicon Valley (published by Plon, Paris, at the end of 1990), who were happy to find me again.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Je crois que le plus dur est fait et que le savoir-faire cumulé depuis les années de débroussaillage verra bientôt la valorisation de ces efforts.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Au Brésil: la valorisation du café.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

J. Bidez: La vie de l'empereur Julien (1930).
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

The Greek went out to try the amalgam—I do not know where, and I dined alone, but toward evening he came back, looking very disconsolate, as I had expected.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

6d., The Book of Vagabonds and Beggars , ( Liber Vagatorum : Der Betler Orden ), with a Vocabulary of their Language ( Rotwelsche Sprach ); edited, with Preface, by MARTIN LUTHER, in the year 1528.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Jusqu'à présent on ne peut pas dire que l'arrivée d'internet ait bouleversé la vie des journalistes faute de moyens et de formation (ce qui va ensemble).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

[330] Congrès Archéologique , 1895; Abbé A. Legris, L’église d’Eu (1913); Desiré Le Beuf, La ville d’Eu (1884); Doctor Coutan, in La Normandie monumentale et pittoresque .
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

But Lord Vincent did not wait for the desecrating hand of the turnkey to be laid upon his shoulder.
— from Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

{199} It would be tedious to cite testimonies at length, but, in addition to M. de Quatrefages who has made a full and careful study of the whole question, [ Charles Darwin et ses précurseurs Français , and Les Emules de Darwin ] may be mentioned such continental scholars as Blanchard [ La vie des êtres animés ], Wigand [ Der Darwinismus und die Naturforschung , etc.], Wolff [ Beiträge zur Kritik der darwinschen Lehre ], Hamann [ Entwicklungslehre und Darwinismus ], Pauly [ Wahres und Falsches an Darwins Lehre ], Driesch [ Biologisches Zentralblatt , 1896 and 1902], Plate [ Bedeutung und Tragweite des Darwinschen Selektionsprincip ], Hertwig [ Address to Naturalist Congress , Aachen , 1900], Heer [ Urwelt der Schweiz ], Kölliker [ Ueber die darwin'sche Schöpfungstheorie ], Eimer [ Entstehung der Arten ], Von Hartmann [ Wahrheit und
— from The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by John Gerard

In the older building (which somewhat resembled old Hendlip Hall) was born the famous seventeenth-century beauty, Lady Venetia Digby, née Stanley, of whom Vandyck has left us many portraits, notably the one at Windsor Castle,—an allegorical picture representing the triumph of innocence over calumny, for she certainly was a lady with "a past."
— from Nooks and Corners of Old England by Allan Fea