Abierta por sus dos extremos, con la embocadura formada por un recorte en forma de rectángulo, pero cuyo lado superior está eliminado y el opuesto a éste cortado, como en los clarinetes, hacia el ulterior y en forma de chaflán, tiene cinco agujeros
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
—En el canto, cuya característica es la de ser de una sola
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
18. in lecto jacens interrogat uxorem an arcam probe clausit, an capsula, &c. E lecto surgens nudus et absque calceis, accensa lucerna omnia obiens et lustrans, et vix somno indulgens.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
So, at this charitable committee, every lady took the subject uppermost in her mind, and talked p. 178 about it to her own great contentment, but not much to the advancement of the subject they had met to discuss.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Ecclesiam furibundus introiit, inde custode remoto papam per gulam accepit, distraxit pugnis calcibusque percussit, et tanquam brutum animal intra limen ecclesiæ acriter calcaribus cruentavit; et latro tantum dominum per capillos et brachia, Jesû bono interim dormiente, detraxit, ad domum usque deduxit, inibi catenavit et inclusit.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon
A s my uncle Pyotr Demyanitch, a lean, bilious collegiate councillor, exceedingly like a stale smoked fish with a stick through it, was getting ready to go to the high school, where he taught Latin, he noticed that the corner of his grammar was nibbled by mice.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
[ feorr ] ofergǣgan to transgress , Æ. ofergǣgednes f. transgression , Æ. ofergǣgend m. transgressor , ÆL 30 411 . ofer-gān anv., -gangan 7 to pass over, beyond, across, traverse, cross , Æ, Lcd, VPs ; AO, CP: transgress , MtL : overrun, overcome, overspread, conquer , Chr, Ex, Lcd, Rd ; Æ: come upon, overtake, seize, attach , Æ, An : pass 220b off, pass away, end , AO, CP .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall
En las tardes de verano, especialmente cuando la atmósfera pura del Ecuador se encuentra libre de vapores y de nubes, las faldas argentadas de este rarísimo nevado, vistas de lejos, [4] arrebatan el alma, aún de las personas que tienen menos hábito y menos propensiones a contemplar con entusiasmo las obras magnas de la creación.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
take me I beseech thee from this world,—I cannot, cannot endure life any longer!"
— from Ourika by Duras, Claire de Durfort, duchesse de
et s’en estant departi d’avec elle, sa gouvernante se corrouçant contre elle, luy demanda pourquoy elle avoit faict ce trait et cette mine.
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2 by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq
Suddenly the deep report of a cannon came echoing landward from the sea; a shell, with lighted fuse trailing sparks, flew over us with a rushing whistle and exploded on the moors.
— from The Maids of Paradise by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
One section, 'C' Company, extended (left of line).
— from With Kelly to Chitral by Beynon, William George Laurence, Sir
Une telle harmonie entre l'être vivant et le milieu correspondant, caractérise evidemment la condition fondamentale de la vie."
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer
Kovalewsky (Maxime), Coutume contemporaine et loi ancienne .
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck
The dénouement of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler requires that the two chief characters, Eilert Lövborg and Hedda Tesman, should die of pistol wounds.
— from The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism by Clayton Meeker Hamilton
"E face le dit sire Thomas mettre en roulle les nouns de touz ceaus qi serront assis as chivaux covertz, e le noumbre des chivaux
— from Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Thirteenth Century by John Hewitt