Gradually the glamour of society, the lethe of a luxurious life, paralyzed her ambition, which clamored less and less peremptorily for recognition, until at length she subsided into a life of almost total inaction.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
El doctor se abrió paso como pudo [7] hasta que consiguió llegar a la reja que limita el recinto destinado a las operaciones, vulgo «rueda.»
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
and each of these changes lasted as long as her childhood, her school-days, her life at the University. . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Well could he narrate: in such a diction as children love, and learned men emulate; a diction simple in its strength, and strong in its simplicity.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë
But I can listen, as long as musicians will perform, to those infinite repetitions, that insistent sounding of the minor key.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
And then I saw that only Pain blameth and punisheth, and our courteous Lord comforteth and sorroweth; and ever He is to the soul in glad Cheer, loving, and longing to bring us to His bliss.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian
Lücke im Markt market gap Luftbefeuchtungsanlage humidifier Luftfahrtslinie airline Luftfracht air cargo Luftfracht airfreight Luftfrachtsatz air cargo rate Luftkorridor airlift Luftloch air pocket Luftpost airmail Luftpostbeförderung normaler Briefpost all-up airmail Luftpostbrief airmail letter
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig
It lay rather, if it can be said to have had any fixed abiding place, in a visible majesty, in an imperial grace, in a godlike stamp of softened power, which shone upon that radiant countenance like a living halo.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
It was finally arranged that Captain Law and Lieutenant Packe should be my companions.
— from Forty-one years in India: from subaltern to commander-in-chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl
Both Captain Lewis and Lieutenant Clark had seen much of the red men on the frontier, but now they were in a land where they found them in their own homes.
— from Historic Adventures: Tales from American History by Rupert Sargent Holland
He was entered on the citizens’ list as Lycon, son of Megacles.
— from Pictures of Hellas: Five Tales of Ancient Greece by Peder Mariager
“For the processing of these problems a task staff, ‘Russia,’ was created, first in charge of Lieutenant Colonel Luther and later on in charge of Major General Schubert.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 3 by Various
Commissary Chew learned a lesson at Saratoga in 1777.
— from The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker
"It is like," replied the curé, "like a leaf out of a vaudeville of Scribe, or one of Alexandre Duval's comedies; your Royal Highness resembles the cousin of M. le Marquis like ...
— from My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833 by Alexandre Dumas
We were married in Gaskarth, but work was bad, and we packed up and went to live for a while in a great city, leagues and leagues to the south.
— from The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir
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