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

No nightmare dreamed by man, no wild invention of the romancer, can ever equal the living horror of that place, and the weird crying of those voices of the night, as we clung like shipwrecked mariners to a raft, and tossed on the black, unfathomed wilderness of air.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Mr. Osmond, to do him justice, had a well-bred air of expecting nothing, a quiet ease that covered everything, even the first show of his own wit.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Not far away he knows the snowy canvas of Rhesus' tents, which, betrayed in their first sleep, the blood-stained son of Tydeus laid desolate in heaped slaughter, and turns the ruddy steeds away to the camp ere ever they tasted Trojan fodder or drunk of Xanthus.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

510 Trafton, C.K., q. , 527 Traités Nouveaux et Curieux du Café, etc. , Dufour, q. , 2 , 11 , 432 , 433 Transhipping ports, Europe, 289 Transportation, Inland Abyssinia, 228 , 229 , 308 , 310 Arabia, 266 , 282 , 293 Bolivia, 279 Brazil, 303 Central America, 308 Colombia, 308 , 316 Nicaragua, 280 Venezuela, 308 Transportation, Seven stages of, 323 Travancore c., 351 , 369 Travels , Herbert, q. , 36 Travels , Rauwolf, q. , 25 Travels , Teixeira, q. , 2 Travels and Adventure , Smith, q. , 36 Travels in Arabia Deserts , Daughty, q. , 661 Travels in India and Persia , Della Valle, 27 Travels of Certayne Englishmen, etc., The , Biddulph, q. , ill.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Pero en este mapa verá Ud. que las lagunas o claros en el trazado suman una extensión mucho menor que la de las líneas actualmente en servicio.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

People 'in society' know this index by heart, they are gifted in such matters with an erudition from which they have extracted a sort of taste, of tact, so automatic in its operation that Swann, for example, without needing to draw upon his knowledge of the world, if he read in a newspaper the names of the people who had been guests at a dinner, could tell at once how fashionable the dinner had been, just as a man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Invidemus sapientibus, justis, nisi beneficiis assidue amorem extorquent; solos formosos amamus et primo velut aspectu benevolentia conjungimur, et eos tanquam Deos colimus, libentius iis servimus quam aliis imperamus, majoremque, &c. 4823 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

And in point of fact the young man named Antonio’s livid face did actually look like forced smiling and the curious effect excited the unreserved admiration of everybody including Skin-the-Goat, who this time stretched over.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

We then ascended a lofty and difficult range of river hills, and, finding ourselves now at the level of the country, we held on in a westerly course, till it became clearly evident, even to my companion, that we were considerably west of the White river.
— from Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Legal system: based on English common law with provisions to accommodate Pakistan's status as an Islamic state; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations Suffrage: 21 years of age; universal; separate electorates and reserved parliamentary seats for non-Muslims Executive branch: note: following a military takeover on 12 October 1999, Chief of Army Staff and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, General Pervez MUSHARRAF, suspended Pakistan's constitution and assumed the additional title of Chief Executive; exercising the powers of the head of the government, he appointed an eight-member National Security Council to function as Pakistan's supreme governing body; on 12 May 2000, Pakistan's Supreme Court unanimously validated the October 1999 coup and granted MUSHARRAF executive and legislative authority for three years from the coup date; on 20 June 2001, MUSHARRAF named himself and was sworn in as president, replacing Mohammad Rafiq TARAR; in a referendum held on 30 April 2002, MUSHARRAF won an overwhelming majority of votes, extending his rule for five more years chief of state: President Pervez MUSHARRAF (since 20 June 2001) cabinet:
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

See also A Supplication of the Poor Commons (E. E. T. S.): “This thing causeth that suche possessioners as heretofore were able and used to maintain their own children ... to lernynge and suche other qualities as are necessary to be had in this Your Highness Royalme, are now of necessitie compelled to set theyr own children to labour, and al is lytle enough to pay the lorde’s rent, and to take the house anew at the end of the yere.”
— from The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney

But together we can earn enough to live somehow and, later on, when he earns more, perhaps we may be able to repay a little of all that you have given us.
— from Cap'n Warren's Wards by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

In looking at this excavated people, foreigners, who are not prone to reflection, experience at first a movement of disgust towards the capital, that vast workshop of delights, from which, in a short time, they cannot even extricate themselves, and where they stay willingly to be corrupted.
— from The Thirteen by Honoré de Balzac

Unfortunately for her, the haughty Princess believed so firmly that she had been sinned against without having the least sin to her own credit that this “injustice,” as she called it, in the world’s judgments of her personality made her rebellious, and, not being clever enough either to forgive or to disdain it, she could find nothing else to do but to seek to revenge herself upon imaginary wrongs by making herself guilty of real ones.
— from Confessions of the Czarina by Radziwill, Catherine, Princess

With great consternation, he finally complied, evidently expecting to die on the spot; but as I immediately prescribed a game of tennis, he scarcely had time to think of the pain, which in fact failed to appear.
— from Outwitting Our Nerves: A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. (Josephine Agnes) Jackson

Mr. Van Rough, at present I cannot enter into particulars; but, I believe, I can explain everything to your satisfaction in private.
— from The Contrast by Royall Tyler