Related Words : Clases intelectuales, educated class; universitario, university man, doctor; licenciado, a lawyer admitted to the bar; bachiller, bachelor ( of arts ); literato, man of letters; publicista, publicist; educador, educator; sabio, learned man; naturalista, naturalist; profesor, professor; académico, academician; conferenciante (or conferencista ), lecturer; institución de enseñanza (or centro docente ), institution of learning; rector (or presidente ) de la universidad, president of the university; facultad, in Latin America, each of the schools or departments of which the university is composed; facultad de derecho y ciencias sociales (or ... de ciencias jurídicas ), school of law; ... de ingeniería (or ... de ciencias exactas ), school of engineering; ... de medicina (or ... de ciencias médicas ), school of medicine; substituto, substitute teacher; curso, course; materias, subjects; sacar matrícula (or matricularse ), to register, to matriculate; derechos de examen, examination fee; aprobado, passed; reprobado, failed; aplazado, conditioned; título, diploma; recibirse de médico, to graduate as a physician; estudiante, student; centro de estudiantes, students’ club .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

We pitched our tents and went into camp life in dead earnest.
— from The Dispatch Carrier and Memoirs of Andersonville Prison by William N. (William Nelson) Tyler

But he cannot flirt forever with the children, because the children are not very often visible, and without flirting civilized life is dull, even for a man who is more easily consoled by ancient authors off the library-shelves than most people can be.
— from A House-Party, Don Gesualdo, and A Rainy June by Ouida

For Dame Granier had thrown a handful of resinous chips on the fire, which blazed up brightly, at which D'Epernon muttered a curse and trampled the clear light into dim embers with the heel of his cavalier's boot.
— from The White Plumes of Navarre: A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Many things in common life, in domestic economy and in social customs will, and must, be different there from what they are here.
— from India's Problem, Krishna or Christ by John P. (John Peter) Jones

'Twas there I woke and knew The sumptuous comfort left in drowsy eyes.
— from The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall

Empires followed: first, in seeming, Old Chaldea lost in dreaming; Egypt next, a bulk Memnonian Staring from her pyramids; Then Assyria, Babylonian Night beneath her hell-lit lids.
— from Weeds by the Wall: Verses by Madison Julius Cawein