All of a sudden in the night, it must have been quite late in the night, I wakes up, next to the bed, there's the examining judge shading the lamp with his hand so that there's no light from it falls on my husband, he didn't need to be as careful as that, the way my husband sleeps the light wouldn't have woken him up anyway.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

ou l'ISSN (international standard serial number), qui identifierait une seule personne, si bien que les références aux auteurs contenues dans les "étiquettes" seraient moins dépendantes des changements d'adresses électroniques ou d'adresses de pages web (
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

"Oh, for Heaven's sake, be quiet!" "Let him be quiet!
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

El exportador que en los Estados Unidos hubiera deseado abrir crédito a los importadores latino-americanos, habría carecido de un mecanismo bancario que le permitiera negociar sus créditos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Borís quietly left the room and went in search of Natásha.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I said I would be ready at half-past six, and after she was gone, stood looking at the basket, quite lost in the magnitude of my trust.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The broad face is full of intelligence, and the large gray eyes are lighted up with a good-natured but quizzical look that invariably attracts attention.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

" Rien n'est beau que le vrai; le vrai seul est aimable ."—BOIL.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

Within twenty minutes we would be on board, and there I could breathe easy again—because my tank's current air supply seemed to be quite low in oxygen.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

“Be quick; lose no time.”
— from The Modern Vikings: Stories of Life and Sport in the Norseland by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

Not longer than he 'd said, but quite long enough, without saying a word.
— from The Post-Girl by Edward Charles Booth

"It would be—ah, it would be Queen Lyle!"
— from The Bride of the Tomb, and Queenie's Terrible Secret by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

"Now, be quiet, like a good girl, and I promise you some fancy shooting."
— from Hector Graeme by Evelyn Brentwood

The roll contained fifty names, a number less than we have had present in years past, but quite large, considering the distance of the place from our churches, and the pressure of home work.
— from Mary and I: Forty Years with the Sioux by Stephen Return Riggs

"Aw iss, he've a seen her an' she be quieter: leastways, he be bound to do her a power o' good.
— from Dead Man's Rock by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Of course you know a cannon down there would be quite light.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18 by Robert Louis Stevenson

[Pg 30] "Be quiet, Lucy; my head aches," said Bonnibel, thinking it very improper for the girl to discuss her superior's affairs so freely; she therefore dismissed the subject and thought no more about it, little dreaming that it was one portentous of evil to herself.
— from An Old Man's Darling by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

Fresh air at least will get into everybody, and the cares of mere business will be quenched like the fires of a sinking ship.
— from Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon by John Muir