It is as fine a picture as any Miss Reed’s drawing-master could paint, let alone the young ladies themselves, who could not come near it: and have you learnt French?”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë
Je suis aussi responsable informatique et télécoms du Cabinet: conseils pour les achats, assistance et formation des utilisateurs.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
Entretanto, levántase en la humilde nave de la iglesia el catafalco para la misa de difuntos [2] : monumento fúnebre, triste y severo, que servirá para avivar más y más en los corazones de los asistentes, el fervor piadoso y
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
Throughout the Korean conflict, PWS, like its area commander, wore two hats: PWS was also the PsyWar operations coordinating agency for the United Nations Command.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
O my brethren, I consecrate you and point you to a new nobility: ye shall become procreators and cultivators and sowers of the future;— —Verily, not to a nobility which ye could purchase like traders with traders’ gold; for little worth is all that hath its price.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Cannārum pugna , L. 23, 43, 4, the battle of Cannae ( 1427 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane
La question centrale pour les "créateurs en ligne" sera alors celle du mécénat ou, plus généralement, des subventions.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
authorization, warranty, accordance, admission. permit, warrant, brevet, precept, sanction, authority, firman; hukm[obs3]; pass, passport; furlough, license, carte blanche[Fr], ticket of leave; grant, charter; patent, letters patent.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
Aphis is the common plant louse.
— from The Mayflower, January, 1905 by Various
We have given the party by whom this work is carried on, all the credit to which they can possibly lay claim.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various
Cardamine pratensis, Linn. , Europe, Asia, Africa, America.
— from Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden) Masters
Color brown with cocoa powder, lederin, or umber.
— from A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Perfumery Comprising directions for making all kinds of perfumes, sachet powders, fumigating materials, dentrifices, cosmetics, etc., etc., with a full account of the volatile oils, balsams, resins, and other natural and artificial perfume-substances, including the manufacture of fruit ethers, and tests of their purity by C. (Carl) Deite
Calappa philargus, Linn . tuberculata, Fabr .
— from Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir
de la Rochefoucauld was the chief, had ventured to criticise the Prussian war with some severity, and to compassionate Prince Louis, and still more the beautiful and cruelly insulted Queen.
— from Memoirs of the Empress Josephine, Vol. 2 of 2 by Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) Rémusat
He had a private panic, wondering how, if they liked that form, they could possibly like his.
— from The Real Thing and Other Tales by Henry James
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