jusqu'à 120 millions de caractères, l'équivalent de 5 volumes Petit Robert, soit 10 kilos de papier environ… et contrairement au papier, le stick est réinscriptible à l'infini, c'est mieux qu'un palimpseste ;-) Mais il y a plus de papier dans le secteur de l'emballage que dans celui de l'édition (journaux, livres) et le développement du e-commerce ne réduira pas les besoins d'emballage.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

De queen she lef’ her baby layin’ aroun’ one day, en went out callin’; en one o’ de niggers roun’-’bout de place dat was ’mos’ white, she come in en see de chile layin’ aroun’, en tuck en put her own chile’s clo’es on de queen’s chile, en put de queen’s chile’s clo’es on her own 48 chile, en den lef’ her own chile layin’ aroun’ en tuck en toted de queen’s chile home to de nigger-quarter, en nobody ever foun’ it out, en her chile was de king bimeby, en sole de queen’s chile down de river one time when dey had to settle up de estate.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

“Plusieurs possesseurs de fiefs, ayant voulu en laisser perpétuellement la propriété à leurs descendans, prirent des arrangemens avec leur Seigneur; et, outre ce qu’ils donnèrent pour faire le marché, ils s’engagèrent, eux et leur postérité, à abandonner pendant une année, au Seigneur, la jouissance entière du fief, chaque fois que le dit fief changerait de main.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

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[27] el espíritu antiespañol, que no era natural y espontáneo sino simple moda, fomentada oficialmente cada año por los discursos patrioteros de 20 de julio, [28] y tal resultado se obtuvo con el establecimiento de las relaciones diplomáticas con la madre patria, con la propagación de la buena literatura castellana y
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At two precisely they were all to march against the factory, the guard of which, at this time under command of the young Marqués de Peñalta, did not exceed twenty-five men, and attack it ostensibly at the doors, while others should scale the walls in the rear.
— from The Marquis of Peñalta (Marta y María): A Realistic Social Novel by Armando Palacio Valdés

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