and she couldn’t come close enough to my heart to help me.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

—De los saladeros del Uruguay y de la Argentina; y se obtenía del beneficio de animales bovinos de calidad inferior, conocidos con el nombre de «criollos,» de que se componía la mayor parte del ganado de las haciendas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

(cp. 10. 604 ); representing intemperance to be discarded, 3. 390 ; —stories about the gods, not to be received, 2. 378 foll.; 3. 388 foll., 408 C [ cp. Euthyph.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

"Charming! Charming!" echoed from every voice.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

A little bitterness still remained in my breast, so I told him that if he knew who forged the notes he could certainly escape the gallows, but that I should keep him prisoner till I got my money back.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

While Eumolpus was relating all this, I changed countenance continually, elated, naturally, at the mishaps of my enemy, and vexed at his good fortune; but I controlled my tongue nevertheless, as if I knew nothing about the episode, and read aloud the bill of fare.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

bulhay a for s.t. packed in a solid to be loose and dry so that it could crumble easily.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

38 Luni a tre doctobre a meza nocte ſe dete le velle aL Camino deL auſtro in golfandone neL mare occeanno paſſando fra capo verde et le ſue yſolle in [ 38 ] 14 gradi et mezo et cuſſi molti giorni nauigaſſimo ꝓ La coſta de la ghinea houero ethiopia nela q a lle he vna montagnia detta ſiera leona in 8 gradi de latitudine con venti contrari calme et piogie senza venti fin a la lignea equinotialle piouendo ſeſanta giornj de continuo contra la opignione de li anticq i Jnanzi q̃ ajungeſſemo ali legnea a 14 gradi molte gropade de venti inpetuoſi et corenti de acqua ne aſaltaronno contra el viagio nõ poſſendo ſpontare Jnanſi et acio q̃ le naue nõ periculaſſeno.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

When the priest had uttered the response of the oracle, the violent paroxysm gradually subsided, and comparative composure ensued.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

“A series of outrages,” Mr Vladimir continued calmly, “executed here in this country; not only planned here—that would not do—they would not mind.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

But we can detect unquestionable examples at Caerhun (Canovium, Eph.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 2 by Theodor Mommsen

The ventilating flue is, in fact, a tube which, as regards the lamp, can carry everything up but conveys nothing down .
— from Lighthouses and Lightships A Descriptive and Historical Account of Their Mode of Construction and Organization by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

Natural hazards: NA Environment - current issues: some forest degradation caused by air and soil pollution; soil pollution results from the use of agricultural chemicals; air pollution results from emissions by coal- and oil-fired power stations and industrial plants and from trucks transiting Austria between northern and southern Europe Environment - international agreements: party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Wetlands, Whaling signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Tropical Timber 94 Geography - note: landlocked; strategic location at the crossroads of central Europe with many easily traversable Alpine passes and valleys; major river is the Danube; population is concentrated on eastern lowlands because of steep slopes, poor soils, and low temperatures elsewhere @Austria:People Population: 8,132,505 (July 1997 est.)
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

All round the town you find so-called cités ouvrières , built on the model of those of Mulhouse; little streets of cheerful cottages, each with its bit of flower and vegetable-garden, where at least the workman has something to call a home after his day's labour.
— from Holidays in Eastern France by Matilda Betham-Edwards

Craig cried exultingly, “that is the camp of the blacks.
— from From Squire to Squatter: A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables

According to the Catholic Church, eating meat on Friday is a sin that deserves eternal punishment.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

If, therefore, we have a system of C components existing in P phases, then, in order to fix the composition of unit mass of each phase, it is necessary to know the masses of (C - 1) components in each of the phases.
— from The Phase Rule and Its Applications by Alexander Findlay

Another consideration children experienced from the Rabbis was that at the age of nine or ten the boy was initiated into the observance of the Day of Atonement by fasting a few hours.
— from Studies in Judaism, First Series by S. (Solomon) Schechter

She had sung in the church choir ever since she was a child, and was the prima donna of the village.
— from Jane Field: A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

At Singapore, there are hundreds of Chinese shopkeepers, who sell all kinds of miscellaneous articles, such as penknives, cotton thread, writing-paper, gunpowder, and corkscrews, often at a price which would be considered cheap even in England.
— from Chatterbox, 1905. by Various