Use definite, specific, concrete language 22 13.
— from The Elements of Style by William Strunk

And as he utter'd this, the crowd "And Ceres, what did she?" cried loud.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Des secteurs comme la publicité, la formation professionnelle, le travail en groupes et en réseaux, la gestion des connaissances devront évoluer en conséquence.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Disclose , v. to disclose, S3; desclosen , S2.—OF. desclore (subj. -close ); Lat. disclaudere .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

De quelle façon Gustave III a-t-il régné?--Qu'est-ce qu'un de ses courtisans lui a dit un jour?--Le roi l'a-t-il écoute?--Quel conseil a-t-il donné au courtisan?--Dans quel but?--A-t-il bien fait, à votre avis?
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Ud. lo ha dicho: el término es poco simpático; y en verdad no conozco mejor elogio que pueda hacerse de cualquiera de esas repúblicas que el de señalarla como la menos latinoamericana de las repúblicas latinoamericanas ... ¡Crea Ud. que a ese ideal aspiran todas en el noble sentido de tal exclusión!
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Enfin, l'arrivée de langues autres que l'anglais sur internet, si elle constitue un juste rééquilibre et un enrichissement indéniable, renforce évidemment le besoin d'outils de traitement linguistique aptes à gérer efficacement cette situation, d'où la nécessité de poursuivre les travaux de recherche et les activités de veille dans des secteurs comme la traduction automatique, la normalisation, le repérage de l'information, la condensation automatique (résumés), etc.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Después de su caballo, lo primero de la Creación es Mariquilla Troya.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

We sorted out the gear, records, papers, diaries, spare clothing, letters, chronometers, finnesko, socks, a flag.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

" "We halted at the sight of this new difficulty," says Captain Lewis.
— from Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark by William R. (William Rheem) Lighton

hallo un cuerno quel general despues de aber lo uisto lo dexo alli para que los de su canpo le biesen que tenia de largo una braça
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

Best of all it was perfectly safe; for though from the door of her den she could look down on the old Indian's cabin, like a pebble on the shore, so steep were the billowing hills and so impassable the ravines that no human foot ever trod the place, not even in autumn when the fishermen left their boats at anchor in Harbor Weal and camped inland on the paths of the big caribou herds.
— from Northern Trails, Book I. by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The Saxons, well aware of the strength of these fortifications, were compelled to encamp without the walls, for the tall rocky barriers on which the castle yet stands, and the precipitous and cavernous heights which still look down upon the river Lene, formed strong natural barriers from which the Danish sentinels could look down with triumph, and defy the assembled host that lay encamped at their feet.
— from History of the Anglo-Saxons, from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest Second Edition by Thomas Miller

A clear, dark, Spanish complexion, long hair of jetty blackness falling in graceful wreaths to his shoulders, dark eyes, full of expression and fire, a finely chiselled chin, and a mouth whose soft voluptuousness scarcely gave token of the steady purpose and firm will of the inflexible statesman: these, added to the prestige of his genius, and the respect which a lofty, self-sacrificing patriotism extorts even from those who would fain corrupt and bribe it, gave him a ready passport to the fashionable society of the metropolis.
— from Old Portraits and Modern Sketches Part 1 from Volume VI of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

"Un adolescent aime toutes les femmes" say the French, and it is generally accepted that man is by nature more inclined to polygamy than woman is towards polyandry, still man and woman are both swayed and motived by the same elemental jealousy that is born of fear of losing something valued; the emotion which Descartes has so well defined as "une espèce de crainte qui se rapport au désir qu'on a de se conserver la possession de quelque bien."
— from The Black Man's Place in South Africa by Nielsen, Peter, active 1922-1937