Je pense qu'il serait sans doute astucieux de présenter par exemple les premiers chapitres d'un livre ou
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas, proxime autem et secundum deos homines hominibus maxime utiles esse possunt.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Le sentiment de la fausseté des plaisirs présents, et l'ignorance de la vanité des plaisirs absents causent l'inconstance."—PASCAL.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Pero Méjico es el productor de petróleo, por excelencia.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Mîlitês fossam decem pedum per eôrum fînîs perdûxêrunt.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Page 108 {108} A pale embattled is embattled upon both its edges; a fess embattled is embattled only upon the upper edge; a chief is embattled necessarily only upon the lower; and the grave difficulty of distinguishing "per pale engrailed" from "per pale invected" shows that no rigid rules can be laid down.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Des forums de discussion présents dans pratiquement toutes les grandes publications électroniques montrent qu'à l'avenir nous n'aurons plus seulement l'opinion d'une personne, mais les opinions de plusieurs personnes, et leur interaction entre elles.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Inde iam passim ab omni parte Italiae duce et auctore belli discursante Poppaedio diversa per populos et urbes signa cecinere.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Gifford Pinchot David R. Porter George D. Porter Perry Edwards Powell Frederic B. Pratt George D. Pratt Frank Presbrey G. Barrett Rich, Jr. Jacob A. Riis Clarence C. Robinson Edgar M. Robinson Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Lincoln E. Rowley Oliver J. Sands Dr. D. A. Sargent Henry B. Sawyer Mortimer L. Schiff Charles Scribner George L. Sehon Rear Admiral Thomas Oliver Selfridge Jefferson Seligman Jesse Seligman Ernest Thompson Seton Samuel Shuman Rear Admiral Charles Dwight Sigsbee William F. Slocum Fred.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

C’est elle encore qui ajoute à la tendresse d’un cœur amoureux le piquant attrait de la volupté; elle la fait germer [ 37 ] dans le cabinet du philosophe, et du pédant poudreux; elle forme enfin les savants comme les orateurs et les poëtes.
— from Man a Machine by Julien Offray de La Mettrie

[Pg 129] GEORGE D. PRENTICE George Dennison Prentice, poet, editor, wit, and founder of the Journal School of Female Poets , was born at Preston, Connecticut, December 18, 1802.
— from Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 1 of 2 by John Wilson Townsend

Se admitirá pues, que en la América española la fórmula lincolniana del gobierno del pueblo, para el pueblo y por el pueblo, habría pecado por exceso, [502]
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

This inflammation of the coating of the nerves, caused undoubtedly by a strong draught, produces pain effects just as scene painters produce scenic effects.
— from Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846 by Honoré de Balzac

A shelf is provided for the telephone directory, paper, pencil, etc. Stand and Stool Complete Details of Stand and Stool
— from Mission Furniture: How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

Some of his most common acquisitions are "vinda" (window), "zieling" (ceiling), "never mind," "alle right," "that'll do," "politzman" (policeman); " ein schön kind , ein reg'lar pitze!"
— from The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York by Hutchins Hapgood

53. Damaged Pivots, Pitted End Stones and Methods of Correction.
— from Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. (Walter John) Kleinlein

The great step made by Dalton consisted in perceiving that a unit of weight might be established for each substance, such that by supposing the substance to enter into all its combinations in the ratio either of that unit, or of some low multiple of that unit, all the different proportions, previously expressed by percentages, were found to result.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

" The preliminary discomforts and harshnesses, which generally make the first days of a sea voyage so cheerless and trying to the temper, being somehow lived through, the succeeding days passed pleasantly enough.
— from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf