"Ainsi," he began, abruptly fronting and arresting me, "vous allez trôner comme une reine; demain—trôner à mes côtés?
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

On peut aussi réserver son hôtel, sa voiture ou son billet d'avion, connaître les taux de change, consulter une rubrique de 7.000 liens vers d'autres sites de langues et de voyages, etc.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

no había más que uno, tamaño como un recibo de contribución.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

but I don’t believe it true deba nunca un caballero, that a gentleman who in life que lleva en el cinto espada, carries a sword at his side como una res destinada should ever be destined to die por su dueño
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

He organized the East London Mission to the Jews, which first came under regular diocesan management when the present Bishop of London was Bishop of Stepney.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Le café: une révolution dans ses procédés de torréfaction.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

hasta cierto medallón (con un retrato de mujer o de santa) que llevaba al cuello.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

I had, however, provided myself with a work for the closet upon rainy days.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

—¿Sabía Ud.—exclamó el señor Souza a manera de [23] respuesta—que el Brasil tiene los mayores depósitos de mineral de hierro que se conocen; un hierro casi libre de todo rastro de [24] fósforo, y al que se calcula un rendimiento de setenta por ciento?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Others will eat nothing but a great circular washer of bread—“ comme un rond de cuir ”—or a “ tresse ,” which is three plaited strands, also crusty.
— from Rambles on the Riviera by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

Up the hill we went, for our blood was up, and the strength of all the Russians could not stop us; they might call us red devils if they liked, we were determined to do our duty for Queen and country.
— from A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863 by T. (Timothy) Gowing

The less remarkable people received an inferior garland and a single rose with a few leaves, made up like a button-hole; and a certain unimportant residuum did not receive any decoration at all.
— from India and the Indians by Edward Fenton Elwin

The variety of objects which this new course of life each day presented, brought me at length to a state of sanity; at least, I was no longer disposed to conjure up remote dangers to my door, or chew the cud on my indigested past reading; though sometimes, I confess, when I have been tempted to meddle with a very bad character, I have invariably been threatened with a relapse; which leads me to think the existence of some secret affinity between rogues and boa-constrictors is not unlikely.
— from Lectures on Art by Washington Allston

“La coupole, sous sa forme symbolique, est l’œuf d’où est sorti un système architectonique qui a causé une révolution des plus fécondes dans le domaine de l’art.”
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

But what did much content me was, that he mislikes the cruel usage recusants do meet with; and he said, not as if boasting of it, but to declare his mind thereon, that he had often sent them alms who suffered for their conscience' sake, as many do at this time.
— from Constance Sherwood: An Autobiography of the Sixteenth Century by Georgiana Fullerton

of Majorca, Lord of, 141 Cleghorn, Dr., on the botany of Minorca, 270 Coinage of Majorca, 110 ; of King Sancho, 140 Columbus centenary, copy of Valseca Portolano for, 172 Company of Catalans under Roger de Flor, 103 ; massacre by Greeks, repulse Greeks at Gallipoli, 105 ; Prince Fernando arrived to take command, 120 , 121 ; abandon Gallipoli, march on Salonica, 122 ; take service under the Duke of Athens, 123 , 128 ; kill the Duke of Athens and his nobles, 128 Compasses, early use of, 77 , 171 Comuneros of Majorca, 182 ; atrocities, 183 ; besiege Alcudia, 183 , 184 ; defence of Pollenza, 185 ; vengeance on, 188 Comunidades in Spain, 180 ; in Majorca, 180 Conflent, 49 ; Jayme II. to succeed to, 50 , 55 , 56 Conradin, beheaded by Charles of Anjou, appeals to the King of Aragon to avenge his death, 58 , 59 , 81 Constance, daughter of Manfred of Sicily, wife of Pedro III. of Aragon, 48 ; rightful Queen of Sicily, 64 ; went to Sicily with two sons, 76 ; arrival at Palermo, 78 ; Sicilian Parliament swore allegiance to, 79 ; at Messina, meeting with her sister, 81 ; children, 94 Constance of Aragon married to the Infante Juan Manuel, 49 Constance of Aragon, wife of Jayme III.
— from The Story of Majorca and Minorca by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

Was he not the first to sound the call to arms?" "Hamilton's exact attitude on that question is not clearly understood," replied Duane, soothingly, for the heat of Livingston's republicanism had never abated.
— from The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton