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contained every dear relationship or
We made a long procession, in which was contained every dear relationship, or tie of love, that existed in human society.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

classés en différentes rubriques oeuvres
Il s'agit d'une base de données qui fonctionne sous le logiciel TACTweb et qui permet l'interrogation en ligne des textes de la bibliothèque classés en différentes rubriques: oeuvres littéraires, notamment du 19e siècle; brochures et opuscules documentaires; manuscrits, livres et brochures sur la Normandie; conférences et exposés transcrits par des élèves du Lycée Marcel Gambier.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

community enjoys direct representation on
At present the total number of electors for the provincial councils is 33,007, and of these no fewer than 17,448 are Mohammedans, since that community enjoys direct representation on an individual basis.
— from The Political Future of India by Lala Lajpat Rai

Cottage every day rain or
He rode over to Rosebush Cottage every day, rain or shine, and sometimes staid there two or three days together.
— from A Changed Heart: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

complete embarras de richesse one
We have now well-nigh rounded the islet of Serk, a complete embarras de richesse ; one glimpse of these rocks taken at random were worth a day’s journey.
— from The Islets of the Channel by Walter Cooper Dendy

Coleridge either did reply or
Coleridge either did reply, or could have replied.
— from Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey

compertum est De Rebus Oceanicis
20 The remarks of Peter Martyr are; “posse omnium illarum linguam nostris literis Latinis, sine ullo discrimine, scribi compertum est,” ( De Rebus Oceanicis et Novo Orbe , Decades Tres, p. 9.)
— from The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

carefully enforced during racing Only
The following sailing regulations are carefully enforced during racing:— Only the boats of members shall compete in the races, and as it is one of the fundamental principles of the Water Wags that the boats shall be similar in every respect save sail-plan, it shall be in the power of the officer of the day to disqualify any boat that, in his opinion, is trying to gain an unfair advantage by infringing the above principle.
— from Yachting, Vol. 2 by Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of

can either do rightly or
Everything that a man can either do rightly or wrongly belongs to the sphere of morals, and everything within the sphere of morals belongs to Christianity and to “preaching Christ.”
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren

Calais enemy destroyer raids on
A.J., a mission to the United States, offers author post of First Sea Lord, Baltic, the, a difficult situation in, Barrage, Folkestone-Cape Grisnez, four forms of, off Belgian coast, the Dover, the North Sea, the Otranio, Bayly, Admiral Sir Lewis, in command at Queenstown, Belgian coast, barrage off, mining the, Bell, Sir Thomas, Benson, Admiral, and author, visits England, Bergen, Capt. Halsey's appointment to, Bethlehem Steel Company, the, Bird, Captain F., of the Dover patrol, Blackwood, Commander M., Blockade of German ports, difficulties of, Board of Invention and Research, the (B.I.R.), Bomb-throwers and howitzers, Bonner, Lieutenant Charles G., awarded the V.C., Boxer campaign in China, the, Breslau , loss of, British and German production of submarines, etc., compared, British Empire, the, importance of security of sea communications of, British merchant steamships, losses from submarines, losses of unescorted, submarine sinks enemy destroyer, Brock, Admiral Sir Frederick, and the disaster to the Scandinavian convoy, Broke , action with German destroyers, conveys author to witness bombardment of Ostend, Brown, Commander Yeats, Browning, Vice-Admiral Sir Montague, confers with U.S. Navy Department, Bruges, aerial attacks on, as enemy base, enemy evacuation of, proposed long-range bombardment of, Burney, Admiral Sir Cecil, at Rosyth, Second Sea Lord, Burney, Lieutenant Dennis, a clever device of, Burton, Lieutenant G. E., Calais, enemy destroyer raids on, Calthorpe, Admiral (see Gough-Calthorpe)
— from The Crisis of the Naval War by John Rushworth Jellicoe


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