[23] fué el más lírico de todos los colombianos, por lo profundo e intenso de su vida afectiva, la cual expresó con rara franqueza y viril arrojo en versos de forma insólita, que bajo una corteza que puede parecer áspera y dura, esconden tesoros de cierta poesía
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

En su cúspide truncada hay, con frecuencia, una columna de humo, y sucede de cuando en cuando que, durante la noche, arroja por su cráter, a manera de bomba, y de un modo intermitente, algunas substancias inflamadas; gracias a este respiradero que se ha formado, y que desembaraza sus entrañas de los productos de una combustión permanente, los pueblos del Ecuador
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

" COSSET, pet lamb, pet.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

Lettre , sb. writing, C2, PP; lettres , pl. , C3, PP.—AF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

alt i duy veneno et vedendo coſtui ferito se dubitauão et nõ diſero niente alhora ma ne lalba parloro a [ 62 ] le donne ſubito fugiteno via et coreuão piu li picoli
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Lemman , sb. sweetheart, lover (of both sexes), mistress, concubine, S, C2, C3, PP; lemmans , pl. , WA; see Leofmon .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Todos, en una explosión de libertad y de entusiasmo, cantan, estallan en carcajadas, corren por la planicie, hacen girar los caballos empapados en sudor, remolinean en grupos apretados, arrancan a manos llenas
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Lo cap o fece dare vna colatiõe poy lo principe et
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

The crew repeats the cry: Pull, lads, pull!—Sylvania's shore!
— from The Comet, and Other Verses by Irving Sidney Dix

No pretendemos de ninguna manera que las naciones sudamericanas queden, por ningún concepto, exentas de las responsabilidades de todo orden que las violaciones del derecho internacional comportan para los pueblos civilizados.
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

National holiday: Anniversary of the Revolution, 17 July (1968) Constitution: 22 September 1968, effective 16 July 1970 (provisional Constitution); new constitution drafted in 1990 but not adopted Legal system: based on Islamic law in special religious courts, civil law system elsewhere; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: President SADDAM Husayn (since 16 July 1979); Vice President Taha Muhyi al-Din MARUF (since 21 April 1974); Vice President Taha Yasin RAMADAN (since 23 March 1991) head of government: Prime Minister SADDAM Husayn (since 29 May 1994); Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Mikhail AZIZ (since NA 1979); Deputy Prime Minister Taha Yasin RAMADAN (since NA May 1994); Deputy Prime Minister Muhammad Hamza al-ZUBAYDI (since NA May 1994) cabinet: Council of Ministers note: there is also a Revolutionary Command Council; Chairman SADDAM Husayn, Vice Chairman Izzat IBRAHIM al-Duri elections: president and vice presidents elected by a two-thirds majority of the Revolutionary Command Council; election last held 17 October 1995 (next to be held NA 2002) election results: SADDAM Husayn reelected president; percent of vote-99%; Taha Muhyi al-Din MARUF and Taha Yasin RAMADAN elected vice presidents; percent of vote - NA Legislative branch: unicameral National Assembly or Majlis al-Watani (250 seats; 30 appointed by SADDAM Husayn to represent the three northern provinces of Dahuk, Arbil, and As Sulaymaniyah; 220 elected by popular vote; members serve four-year terms) elections: last held 24 March 1996 (next to be held NA 2000) election results: percent of vote by party-NA; seats by party-NA Judicial branch: Court of Cassation Political parties and leaders: Ba'th Party, SADDAM Husayn, central party leader Political pressure groups and leaders: political parties and activity severely restricted; opposition to regime from disaffected members of the Ba'th Party, Army officers, tribes, and Shi'a religious and ethnic Kurdish dissidents; the Green Party (government-controlled) International organization participation: ABEDA, ACC, AFESD, AL, AMF, CAEU, CCC, ESCWA, FAO, G-19, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, ITU, NAM, OAPEC, OIC, OPEC, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The next year the legislatures of Indiana, Montana, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Minnesota, Missouri, Michigan, and Connecticut passed laws providing for new systems of voting, more or less resembling the Australian system; and now their example has been followed by almost all the other States.
— from Elements of Civil Government A Text-Book for Use in Public Schools, High Schools and Normal Schools and a Manual of Reference for Teachers by Alexander L. Peterman

The meadow land between sloped gently upward and inward from the beach, and for the myriad duels which formed the ancient battle, no field could present less positive vantage-ground to combatants on either side.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Charta , Papyrus , L.; Papier , Fr.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

Comarum palustre , Lin., Purple Marsh Cinquefoil.
— from The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery by John R. (John Richard) Wise

Let the Christian, with his clearer, purer light, prosecute his high aim by holy means with an energy and zeal similar to those which the ungodly exhibit in the pursuit of their gains or pleasures.
— from The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot