no estrenada todavía por el hombre; a la vista de un mar solitario, únicamente surcado, tal o cual [90-9] noche de luna, por cárabos de piratas o buques oficiales de Europa encargados de perseguirlos, 30 la mora se puso a lavarse y peinarse, y el moro sacó el manuscrito y volvió a leerlo con tanta emoción como la primera vez.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
attic, loft, garret, cockloft, clerestory; cellar, vault, hold, cockpit; cubbyhole; cook house; entre-sol; mezzanine floor; ground floor, rez-de-chaussee; basement, kitchen, pantry, bawarchi-khana, scullery, offices; storeroom &c. (depository) 636; lumber room; dairy, laundry. coach house; garage; hangar; outhouse; penthouse; lean-to. portico, porch, stoop, stope, veranda, patio, lanai, terrace, deck; lobby, court, courtyard, hall, vestibule, corridor, passage, breezeway; ante room, ante chamber; lounge; piazza [=veranda, U.S.].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
a region, Cath.; plages , pl. , S2, C3, HD.—OF. plage , a region, land, sea-coast (Cotg.); Lat. plāga (Vulg.).
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
préost ; Church Lat. presbyter (Vulg.); Gr. πρεσβύτερος , elder ( LXX ).
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
Como no podía salir de casa, su crónica le permitió 'viajar', abrir sus horizontes, pensar en otra cosa que en su mal.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
Cliquez sur le numéro situé sur la partie gauche de chaque ligne pour voir le document dans la fenêtre du bas.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
Every creature lends potential values to a world in which it can satisfy some at least of its demands and learn, perhaps, to modify the others.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
The founder of that great emporium proved to be a brisk, crisp little person, very dapper and quick, with a clear head and a ready tongue.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
I steered the boat by compass over a sea that, under the smudged moon, was in colour and curve like pale violently shaken liquid mud.
— from A Poor Man's House by Stephen Sydney Reynolds
ponenda salubri castra loco; praebenda vigil custodia vallo.
— from Claudian, volume 1 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus
Camp Lee Petersburg, Va. 60,335 16,500,000 Rhinehart & Dennis (Inc.), Harrison Construction Co., John T. Wilson & Co. (Inc.).
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell
The Chilians likewise possessed vessels of hard wood and of marble.
— from Spanish and Portuguese South America during the Colonial Period; Vol. 1 of 2 by Robert Grant Watson
As the ground was quite thickly covered with snow, and as certain landmarks, plainly visible in summer, were now obliterated, the march would prove no easy one.
— from Dick Hamilton's Cadet Days; Or, The Handicap of a Millionaire's Son by Howard Roger Garis
(The Handsome) 1322 VALOIS BRANCH OF CAPETIAN LINE Philip VI. (de Valois) 1328 John (The Pious) 1350 Charles V. 1364 Charles VI.
— from A Short History of France by Mary Platt Parmele
a calm, low, penetrating voice: "Is the doctor there?
— from Tempest-Driven: A Romance (Vol. 1 of 3) by Richard Dowling
[1922] Hence he himself was far from sharing the opinion of certain later Protestants, viz.
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar
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