The Senate controls also what is by far the largest and most important expenditure, that, namely, which is made by the censors every lustrum for the repair or construction of public buildings; this money cannot be obtained by the censors except by the grant of the Senate.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius
El mal que no tiene cura es locura —Folly is the one evil for which there is no remedy.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.
Gravidus nam surgere pontus 580 Coeperat, et longo fugiebant agmine fluctus Impellentis onus monstri.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
Deschamps, Les Sociètès Secrètes, etc. , I. p. xcii., quoting "Discours du F. Malapert a la Loge Alsace-Lorraine" in La Chains d'Umon , pp. 88, 89 (1874); ct. Eckert, La Franc-Maçonnerie dans sa véritable signification , II. 293.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster
2 [A13; c1] eat light food to keep the mouth occupied while doing s.t. else.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
Eastern magazines and current Eastern literature formed their literary recreation, and the sale of the better class of periodicals was singularly great.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte
Je donne présentement une série de communications suite à mon rapport: Le gouvernement du Canada et le français sur internet.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
Henry P. Porter , Chairman , E. Lawrence Fell , A. M. Glossbrenner , J. Clyde Oswald , Toby Rubovits .
— from Punctuation A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctuation and their Use Both Grammatically and Typographically by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton
The clear evening light fell on Holmes, as he stood there looking down at the dying little lamiter: a powerful figure, with a face supreme, masterful, but tender: you will find no higher type of manhood.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various
Paris, 1864. quoted by Ch. Vellay, Le culte et les fêtes d'Adonis-Thammouz . Saint Paul.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer
Anti-retroviral drugs can extend life for many years.
— from State of the Union Addresses by George W. (George Walker) Bush
Cómo es la frente?
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler
When I got home I experienced very little soreness from the operation and I felt that I could enjoy life fully.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce
Since she was in perfect condition except for stoutness she could easily look for recovery, and as an added incentive the restoration of youthful good looks was held out as certain.
— from The Nervous Housewife by Abraham Myerson
When at last the jury retired, in order to consult among themselves, Carteret exhibited letters from the king himself, in which he called him governor of New Jersey.
— from Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by Jasper Danckaerts
“If,” he says (page 305), “we look upon the judgment to come only as revealing our secrets, as discerning our actions, as sentencing our persons, according to the works done in the flesh, there is not one of us can expect life from that tribunal at the last day....
— from The War and the Gospel: Sermons and Addresses During the Present War by Henry Wace
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