19. ¿Cuál es la ocupación principal?
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Éste se halla muy lejos de desempeñar el papel que, a causa de la mujer, ha conquistado en los otros países católicos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

They are here called educational laws or principles.
— from Training the Teacher by Marion Lawrance

Finally, on the day before the Day of Days in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, he took a long solitary walk in the Champs Elysee, loveliest of Paris parades.
— from An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson

If it be looked on as an instance of a prodigious memory, that some generals have been able to call every soldier in their army by his proper name, we may easily find a reason why men have never attempted to give names to each sheep in their flock, or crow that flies over their heads; much less to call every leaf of plants, or grain of sand that came in their way, by a peculiar name.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 by John Locke

A sudden revolution of fever-stricken or hysterical invalids can effect little of permanent value; only a long and invigorating course of the tonics of life can make free from danger the open-air of nature.
— from The New Spirit Third Edition by Havelock Ellis

Entry deadlines are habitually postponed, bureaucratic hurdles gleefully presented, sadistic reports about the Central Europeans' lack of progress periodically issued.
— from After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin

In addition to these various speculations, it was the opinion of Herschel that the sun is a magnificent, habitable abode; the light it furnishes arising from certain empyreal, luminous or phosphoric clouds, swimming in its transparent atmosphere.
— from Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Washington Irving

" A most readable and interesting work—and it can scarcely be consulted in vain, whether the reader is in search for information as to military, court, ecclesiastical, legal, or professional costume….
— from The Evolutionist at Large by Grant Allen