Elle organise des rencontres entre les utilisateurs et les éditeurs juridiques et de bases de données, ainsi qu'une journée annuelle sur un thème.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

After long vowels, nasals, and liquids the double ss is simplified to s : as, fossus , dug , but dīvīsus , divided ; vorsus or versus , turned .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Le CDI fournit aussi nombre de documents électroniques émanant de CD-Rom, de bases de données et du web.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

aground, grounded, swamped, stranded, cast away, wrecked, foundered, capsized, shipwrecked, nonsuited[obs3]; foiled; defeated &c. 731; struck down, borne down, broken down; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; all up with; ploughed, plowed, plucked. lost, undone, ruined, broken; bankrupt &c. (not paying) 808; played out; done up, done for; dead beat, ruined root and branch, flambe[obs3], knocked on the head; destroyed &c. 162. frustrated, crossed, unhinged, disconcerted dashed; thrown off one's balance, thrown on one's back, thrown on one's beam ends|; unhorsed, in a sorry plight; hard hit.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

V. be courageous &c. adj.; dare, venture, make bold; face danger, front danger, affront danger, confront danger, brave danger, defy danger, despise danger, mock danger; look in the face; look full in the face, look boldly in the face, look danger in the face; face; meet, meet in front; brave, beard; defy &c. 715. take courage, muster courage, summon up courage, pluck up courage; nerve oneself, take heart; take heart, pluck up heart of grace; hold up one's head, screw one's courage to the sticking place; come up to scratch; stick to one's guns, standfire[obs3], stand against; bear up, bear up against; hold out &c. (persevere) 604a. put a bold face upon; show a bold front, present a bold front; show fight; face the music.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

If while he was being carried out the grave-diggers should discover that they were bearing a live instead of a dead body, Dantès did not intend to give them time to recognize him, but with a sudden cut of the knife, he meant to open the sack from top to bottom, and, profiting by their alarm, escape; if they tried to catch him, he would use his knife to better purpose.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Jes as good stock as de Driscolls en de Howards, de bes’ day dey ever seed.”
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

"Dear boy, dear, delightful boy, how I love you!"
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

SYN: Decamp, bolt, depart, disappear, steal away, run off, hide, withdraw, retreat.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Alexander Johnston, merchant in Edinburgh 100 Sir Robert Sinclair of Stevenstoun, for Charles Sinclair, Advocate, his son 100 The said Thomas Scott, deputed by Patrick Ogilvie of Balfour 400 The said Thomas Scott, deputed by Thomas Robertson, merchant there (i.e. Dundee) 125 The said Thomas Scott, deputed by David Drummond, merchant in Dundee 100 Mrs. Anne Stewart, daughter to the deceased John Stewart of Kettlestoun 100 31 March, 1696: Sir Archibald Murray of Blackbarrony 500 William Stewart, clerk to his Majesty's Customs at Leith 100 Christian Grierson, daughter to the deceast John Grierson 100 Jesper Johnstoune of Waristoun 500 Alexander Forbes, goldsmith in Edinburgh 200
— from An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

Besides these ingredients, iodine and bromine have been detected by Dr. Daubeny, who instituted experiments to ascertain whether these two active principles, which the French chemists had recently discovered in modern marine productions, did not exist in mineral waters issuing from strata formed in the ancient seas.
— from The History of Salt With Observations on the Geographical Distribution, Geological Formation, and Medicinal and Dietetic Properties by Evan Martlett Boddy

And he set him pulling against himself, until at length he could take a bullock by the horns and pull against it, and cast it over the hill, and so, day by day, did the giant make him work until his bones ached and his limbs grew weary, but he grew strong and mighty, and could run all day and not stop, and climb the steepest hill, and leap the widest chasm, and wield a club in either hand, and shatter a rock with every blow; and after each task in which he succeeded the giant laughed and grunted, and said that it was well.
— from Wulnoth the Wanderer: A Story of King Alfred of England by Herbert Inman

[ea] Thrown, when the war of winds is o'er, A lonely wreck on Fortune's shore, 'Mid sullen calm, and silent bay, Unseen to drop by dull decay;— Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Here he lived in a miserable brush lean-to, with no companion but his rifle, until his hiding-place was accidentally discovered by Dan, during one of his rambles in the woods.
— from The Mail Carrier by Harry Castlemon

[142] begins thus: ‘Il y avait des arcs où passaient des escortes Avec des bannières de deuil et du fer Lacé (?)
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

(2) Life, Writings, / and Correspondence of / George Borrow / Derived from Official and other / Authentic Sources / By William I. Knapp, Ph.D., LL.D. / Author and Editor of French and Spanish Text-Books / Editor of “Las Obras de Boscan,” “Diego de Mendoza,” etc. /
— from A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow by Thomas James Wise

Happily, however, the violence of the shock with which we had so determinedly borne down direct on that fatal Iceberg, as if it had been our destination instead of our destruction, had so smashed and pounded the ship that she got off in this same instant and righted.
— from The Wreck of the Golden Mary by Charles Dickens

The general rule to be followed may be laid down in these words: Never define for the child any term that the story itself can be made to define but do define every necessary term that the story itself cannot be made to define.
— from A Manual for Teaching Biblical History by Eugene Kohn