Ce "pacte" a quelque chose de diabolique; - le renforcement de ma conviction que les technologies numériques sont une chance extraordinaire du renouvellement du littéraire.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

la figura del sol y de la luna en creciente, de donde le viene su nombre.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Celui-ci se traduit à tous les niveaux: côté développeur de logiciels et côté utilisateur.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Pour les romans ou les beaux livres, cela dépend de l'évolution des deux supports.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

[FR] Roberto Hernández Montoya (Caracas) #Directeur de la bibliothèque numérique du magazine électronique Venezuela
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Ciertas cremerías suelen tener en la ciudad despachos de leche, donde se vende ésta
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

SYN: Prove, verify, find out, discover, confirm, detect, determine, learn, discern.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Related Words : Año nuevo , New Year’s Day ; Día de Reyes , Epiphany ; miércoles de Ceniza , Ash Wednesday ; Pascua de Resurrección , Easter ; Pentecostés , Pentecost or Whitsunday ; Corpus , Corpus Christi ; Día de Todos los Santos , All Saints’ Day ; Día de Difuntos , All Souls’ Day ; Noche Buena , Christmas Eve ; Navidad , Christmas ; día de los Santos Inocentes , December 28 .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

A few seconds later [242] there appeared at the edge of the river Chief Dalton, Detective Layton, and the two Cresville officers.
— from The Motor Boys Afloat; or, The Stirring Cruise of the Dartaway by Clarence Young

Le Français a besoin en campagne de deux livres de pain par jour.
— from Iberia Won; A poem descriptive of the Peninsular War With impressions from recent visits to the battle-grounds, and copious historical and illustrative notes by T. M. (Terence McMahon) Hughes

He and the celebrated Duchess de Longueville, a woman who had as great a talent for intrigue as himself, were the life and soul of the Fronde—a civil war which ended only in the reëstablishment of the monarchy on a firmer foundation.
— from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

Cosi` 'l maestro; e quella gente degna <>, disse, <>, coi dossi de le man faccendo insegna.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

@Canada, Government Names: conventional long form: none conventional short form: Canada Digraph: CA Type: confederation with parliamentary democracy Capital: Ottawa Administrative divisions: 10 provinces and 2 territories*; Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories*, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon Territory* Independence: 1 July 1867 (from UK) National holiday: Canada Day, 1 July (1867) Constitution: amended British North America Act 1867 patriated to Canada 17 April 1982; charter of rights and unwritten customs Legal system: based on English common law, except in Quebec, where civil law system based on French law prevails; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952), represented by Governor General Raymond John HNATYSHYN (since 29 January 1990) head of government: Prime Minister Jean CHRETIEN (since 4 November 1993) was elected on 25 October 1993, replacing Kim CAMBELL; Deputy Prime Minister Sheila COPPS cabinet: Federal Ministry; chosen by the prime minister from members of his own party sitting in Parliament Legislative branch: bicameral Parliament (Parlement) Senate (Senat): consisting of a body whose members are appointed to serve until 75 years of age by the governor general and selected on the advice of the prime minister; its normal limit 104 senators House of Commons (Chambre des Communes): elections last held 25 October 1993 (next to be held by NA October 1998); results - number of votes by percent NA; seats - (295 total) Liberal Party 178, Bloc Quebecois 54, Reform Party 52, New Democratic Party 8, Progressive Conservative Party 2, independents 1 Judicial branch: Supreme Court Political parties and leaders: Liberal Party, Jean CHRETIEN; Bloc Quebecois, Lucien BOUCHARD; Reform Party, Preston MANNING; New Democratic Party, Audrey McLAUGHLIN; Progressive Conservative Party, Jean CHAREST Member of: ACCT, AfDB, AG (observer), APEC, AsDB, Australia Group, BIS, C, CCC, CDB (non-regional), COCOM, CSCE, EBRD, ECE, ECLAC, ESA (cooperating state), FAO, G-7, G-8, G-10, GATT, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICFTU, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INMARSAT, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, LORCS, MINURSO, MTCR, NACC, NAM (guest), NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS, OECD, ONUSAL, PCA, UN, UNAVEM II, UNCTAD, UNDOF, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIKOM, UNOMOZ, UNOMUR, UNPROFOR, UNTAC, UNTSO, UPU, WCL, WHO, WMO, WIPO, WTO, ZC Diplomatic representation in US: chief of mission: Ambassador Raymond CHRETIEN chancery: 501 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001 telephone: (202) 682-1740 FAX: (202) 682-7726 consulate(s) general: Atlanta, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, and Seattle consulate(s): Cincinnati, Cleveland, Miami, Pittsburg, Princeton, San Diego, San Francisco, and San Juan (Puerto Rico)
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[pg 123] III. Now dabble the poppies shrink, And the coxcomb and the pink; While the candytuft's damp crown Droops dribbled, low bowed i' the wet; And long spikes o' the mignonette Little musk-sacks open set, Which the dripping o' dew drags down.
— from Accolon of Gaul, with Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein

(Conde, Dominacion de los Arabes, tom. iii.
— from The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by William Hickling Prescott

[226] P. Cardiel (`Declaracion de la Verdad', p. 449), quoting from Xarque (`La Vida Apostolica del Padre Joseph Cataidino', Zaragoça por Juan de Ypa, 1664), says, re the diminution of the Indians under the Spanish rule: `Para que se vea cuanta razon tiene el Juez reparese que segun los padrones del siglo pasado (vg. 1600-1700) en la ciudad y jurisdicion de Santiago del Estero habia 80,000 Indios y ahora, apenas hay ochenta.
— from A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

He clasped her with one hand, and with the other drew from his pocket a vial containing double distilled laurel water: he pressed it to her lips, until she had swallowed half of its contents; the remainder he drank himself.—The drug of death soon began to operate.—Clasped in each other's arms, pale and expiring, they reviewed their hard fate, and, in faint and lessening sentences, implored of the great God of mercy, that he would pardon them for 218 what they had done, and that he would receive their spirits into his regions of eternal repose; that he would be pleased, in his divine goodness, to forgive the misjudging severity which had driven them to despair, and would support the unconscious author of it, under the heavy afflictions which their disastrous deaths would occasion.
— from The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Carr, John, Sir