A ce propos, je vous avais dit combien j'étais comme aimanté par ce continent et en particulier par le Sénégal où je me suis découvert de nombreuses attaches au point que, si Dieu le veut - mais il est grand et miséricordieux :-), je me suis proposé en personne pour concourir à un projet social, éducatif et
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

these anamals were all in good order we therefore took as much of the meat as our canoes and perogues could conveniently carry.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children; chastity is merely the economy of the artist, and in all creative artists productiveness certainly ceases with sexual potency....
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

— N. cleanness, cleanliness &c. adj.; purity; cleaning &c. v.; purification, defecation &c. v.; purgation, lustration[obs3]; detersion[obs3], abstersion[obs3]; epuration[obs3], mundation|; ablution, lavation[obs3], colature|; disinfection &c. v.; drainage, sewerage.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Eventually Mr. Schapiro was converted, and publicly confessed Christ, and united with a church in Brooklyn.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

badlun n name given to various k.o. crevalles and pompanos: Caranx compressus , stellates ; Gnathanodon speciosus , etc. badlung v
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Very soon, in 1710–1720, commences the reign of Indian coffee, abundant, popular, comparatively cheap.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

2. Tener sudor et creber anhelitus, palpitatio cordis, &c. 5265 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The book contains detailed information of the most practical and thorough character concerning all pigments, colours, colour and paint machinery, paint vehicles, such as paint oils, turpentine, etc., driers and varnishes.
— from Paint & Colour Mixing A practical handbook for painters, decorators and all who have to mix colours, containing 72 samples of paint of various colours, including the principal graining grounds by Arthur Seymour Jennings

He continued to talk soothingly to his chum, and presently Chet cooled down somewhat.
— from First at the North Pole; Or, Two Boys in the Arctic Circle by Edward Stratemeyer

Niger Muslim 80%, other (includes indigenous beliefs and Christian) 20% Nigeria Muslim 50%, Christian 40%, indigenous beliefs 10% Niue Ekalesia Niue (Niuean Church - a Protestant church closely related to the London Missionary Society) 61.1%, Latter-Day Saints 8.8%, Roman Catholic 7.2%, Jehovah's Witnesses 2.4%, Seventh-Day Adventist 1.4%, other 8.4%, unspecified 8.7%, none 1.9% (2001 census) Norfolk Island Anglican 31.8%, Roman Catholic 11.5%, Uniting Church in Australia 10.6%, Seventh-Day Adventist 3.2%, other Christian 5.6%, none 19.9%, unspecified 16.6% (2006 census)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

In the despotic kingdom of Shoa, the sovereign can alone purchase coloured cloth or choice goods; and Ayto Kálama Work, who is entitled to a certain percentage upon all imports, having formed a tolerably shrewd estimate of the contents of the bales and boxes, believed that these would effectually clog the market, and that his dues would be no longer forthcoming.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

By E. G. Squier , M.A., F.S.A., late U. S. Commissioner to Peru; Author of “The States of Central America,” “Nicaragua: its People, Scenery, Monuments, Resources, Condition, and Proposed Canal,” &c. With Map and 258 Illustrations.
— from The Ceramic Art A Compendium of The History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain by Jennie J. Young

Ray (John) Cat alogus Plantarum circa Cant abrigiam nascentium, &c. Londini 1660.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 4 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

CONSTRUCTING DIRT COURTS A properly constructed clay court is usually more expensive than a turf court, for the ground must be excavated to a depth of eight or ten inches so that a foundation can be made of stones, cinders, or gravel.
— from Making a Tennis Court by George E. Walsh

Arriving there, he jumped off my back and went soberly up to the veranda, where Big Chief was having a meeting of the Calf and Pig Club, composed of neighbourhood boys and girls.
— from Bonnie Prince Fetlar: The Story of a Pony and His Friends by Marshall Saunders

They did not mince matters in telling of the brutal murder by the strikers of the mine guard Stringer; nor did they hedge in publishing what was done by the Cabin Creek and Paint Creek Colliery Companies.
— from The Survey, Volume XXX, Number 1, April 5, 1913 by Various

Besides employing on all occasions her good offices in favor of the Hugonots, she had expended no inconsiderable sums in levying that army of Germans which the prince of Condé and Prince Casimir conducted into France;[*] and notwithstanding her negotiations with the court, and her professions of amity, she always considered her own interests as connected with the prosperity of the French Protestants, and the depression of the house of Guise.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume