Su mirar, aun acompañado de bondadosas palabras, ponía entre ella y las personas 30 214 extrañas la infranqueable distancia de un respeto receloso; mas para las de casa, es decir, para sus deudos, parciales y allegados, tenía una singular atracción.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
mostly, for the most part, in the greatest degree, chiefly, especially .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall
ng ways to get her about the island, and at other times I sat myself down contented enough without her.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
De Luchet ( Essai sur la Sects des Illuminés , p. 212) refers to the following works in connexion with the Order: Nouvelles authentiques des Chevaliers et Frères Initiés d'Asie .
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster
Ex nocturno visu etiam stipem, quotannis, die certo, emendicabat a populo, cavana manum asses porrigentibus praebens, (Sueton. in August.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon
Nabulhug siya dihang hibuthan sa dinamíta, He became partially blind when a dynamite charge exploded on him.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
The youthful d'Esgrignon was systematically urged to wrong-doing by an ally of his own age, Fabien du Ronceret, a perfidious fellow of the town whom M. du Croisier employed.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr
En las colinas y faldas hay risueñas estancias, cuyas cercas dibujan cuadriláteros en las laderas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
Wisdom does not force our natural dispositions, “Sudores itaque, et pallorem exsistere toto Corpore, et infringi linguam, vocemque aboriri, Caligare oculos, sonere aures, succidere artus, Demque concidere, ex animi terrore, videmus.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
I did certainly entertain the thought, but as quickly abandoned it.
— from The Boy Tar by Mayne Reid
[Pg 66] no continuity of nervous tissue [italics mine] over the interval between consumer and producer, and a direct comparison, equilibrium, equality, or discrepancy in respect of pleasure and pain can, of course, not be sought except within each self-balanced individual complex of nervous tissue.
— from Social Value: A Study in Economic Theory, Critical and Constructive by Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson
(After Evans) 32 9. Double-Axe and Socket from Dictaean Cave. (Evans) f.p.
— from Mazes and Labyrinths: A General Account of Their History and Development by W. H. Matthews
Endeavor so to perfect your plan, that when you have given the necessary time, be it longer or shorter, to domestic concerns each morning, you can dismiss them from your mind and attend to other things, giving to those no further thought, except that which results from a habit of observing whatever passes in the family.
— from The Young Housekeeper's Friend Revised and Enlarged by Mrs. (Mary Hooker) Cornelius
He resolutely, though in mild form, smoothed down the flaming fires of his Clergy; commanding now this controversy and then that other controversy ("de concreto et de inconcreto," or whatever th
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle
Indeed my memory was in so confused a state, and the weeks I had passed in the unconsciousness of delirium, caused every thing that had previously happened to appear so remote and indistinct, that I was myself almost unable to give any clear and definite form to the occurrences that preceded my illness.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various
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