Or else he would flash through our conventual darkness a reflex of a brighter world, show us a glimpse of the current literature of the day, read us passages from some enchanting tale, or the last witty feuilleton which had awakened laughter in the saloons of Paris; taking care always to expunge, with the severest hand, whether from tragedy, melodrama, tale, or essay, whatever passage, phrase, or word, could be deemed unsuited to an audience of "jeunes filles."
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

[Pg 238] with those retreats made along several diverging roads, under pretense of covering a greater extent of frontier and of threatening the enemy on both flanks.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Cada pileta está dotada de refrigerantes, unidos por un sistema completo de cañerías, a la máquina refrigeradora, con el objeto de dominar oportunamente las altas temperaturas que alcanzan en ese clima los mostos en fermentación, asegurando de tal manera la marcha normal del proceso, y, por consiguiente, la calidad de los vinos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

They failed lamentably in the case of Joseph II and produced many very dubious results under Peter.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

—How degenerate in its taste, how servile to dignities, ranks, uniforms, pomp, and splendour must a nation have been, when it began to consider the simple as the bad, the simple man ( schlicht ) as the bad man ( schlecht )!
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Là auparavant, étaient venus déjà recevoir une part de l' offrande les Dieux, accompagnés des Gaudharvas, et les Siddhas avec les Mounis divins, Brahma, le monarque des Souras, l' immuable Śiva, et l' auguste Náráyana, et les quatre gardiens vigilants du monde, et les mères des Immortels, et tous les Dieux, escortés des Yakshas, et le maître éminent du ciel, Indra, qui se
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Elle permet à l'utilisateur d'un système de rechercher des informations chez les utilisateurs d'autres systèmes utilisant la même norme sans devoir connaître la syntaxe de recherche utilisée par ces systèmes, ndlr.)
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Internet est un nouveau type de ressource utilisable pour chercher, produire et stocker des connaissances, à ce titre les activités de formation et de recherche ne peuvent l'ignorer.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

de re uxoria proves at full, and Ant.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The Tribunal may take judicial notice of Frick’s decree of September 20, 1936, published in the Ministerial Gazette of the Reich ( Ministerialblatt des Reichs- und Preussischen Ministeriums des Innern ), 1936, Page 1343, Document 2245-PS.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 5 by Various

"Ils ont voulu que l'inutilité d'un roi , la nécessité de chercher les moyens de remplacer un pouvoir fondé sur des illusions , fût une des premières vérités offertes à sa raison; l'obligation d'y concourir lui-même, un des premiers devoirs de sa morale; et le désir de n'être plus affranchi du joug de la loi par une injurieuse inviolabilité, le premier sentiment de son cœur .
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Es incapaz de robar un peso, y roba cuatro veces dos reales....
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Intimates, I may boast we were; henceforth, Friends—shall it not be?—who discard reserve, Use plain words, put each dot upon each i, Till death us twain do part?
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Mrs. Decker rose up presently, and staggered toward the table; a dim idea of trying to clear it off, and put things in something like order, struggled with the faintness she felt.
— from Little Fishers: and Their Nets by Pansy

[114] Surely, if it decline the tribunal of reason, it is not by reasoning that it is to be supported,—even though the reasoner should have the great talents which Dr Reid unquestionably possessed.
— from Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind (Vol. 1 of 3) by Thomas Brown

And Hector de Maris, seeing his brother Lancelot thus unfairly dismounted, rushed upon Palamides in a rage, and bore him from his horse with a mighty spear-thrust.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 14 (of 15), King Arthur (2) by Malory, Thomas, Sir

The dominant people of California have been successively aborigines, conquistadores , monks, the dreamy, romantic, unenergetic peoples of Spain, the roaring mélange of Forty-nine, and finally the modern citizens, who are so distinctive that they bid fair to become a subspecies of their own.
— from The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado by Stewart Edward White