Dès sa création, ce site pionnier suscite beaucoup d'intérêt dans la communauté francophone parce qu'il montre ce qui est faisable sur le web avec beaucoup de détermination et des moyens limités.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Desde Santa Clara, continuaremos el viaje por los Ferrocarriles Unidos de la Habana, hasta esta última ciudad, a donde [37] llegaremos después de una noche de viaje.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

At all events, Miss Ophelia knew of nothing else to do; and, therefore, applied her mind to her heathen with the best diligence she could command.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

This distinguished physician was son of Duncan Grant, of Lingeston, N.B., and brother to that equally distinguished soldier, Col. Colquhoun Grant ( see Staff).
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

Next, before you look into the jars, take handfuls of “parched,” “washed,” and “saffron” rice, and after fumigating them over the incense, strew them all round the row of jars, saying as you do so:— “Cluck, cluck!
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Late Member of The Chinese Government Historiographical Bureau Peking Author of “Descriptive Sociology: Chinese” “China of the Chinese” Etc.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

The next day several callers came.
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

He enters now that land, I n view of which, believing, he did stand, L onging for ling'ring death; still crying, Come; T ake me, Lord, hence, unto my father's home.
— from Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie

Jimmie, with a magnificent sweep of the hand, dismissed such contemptible considerations as present pounds, shillings, and pence.
— from Where Love Is by William John Locke

She did not die with shame, as at first she was sure that she would do; she could not run away to the far end of the earth where she would never again see his face; where every face would be a new face, where no voice would speak his name; she could not dig a hole in the earth and creep into it; she could not lie down at night and shut her tired eyes, with both hands under her cheek, as she always fell asleep, and never awake again, as she would love best of all to do; she could cry out, but she could not hear the answer, “Oh, please tell me when I meant to be so good, why it had to be so hard.”
— from Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline: A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Conklin, Nathaniel, Mrs.

The fact that my guest, did she choose, could afford to crown herself with pearls, would not make up to me for the consciousness that she was sitting on an oozing hat throughout luncheon.
— from The Unpopular Review, Vol. 2, No. 4, October-December 1914, including Vol. 2 Index by Various

How to make draperies, slip covers, cushions and other home furnishings.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1957 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office