With plenty of land widely distributed, staple products like cotton, rice, and sugar cane, and a thorough system of education, there was a unique chance to realize a new modern democracy in industry in the southern United States which would point the way to the world.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
Following this matter, Casanova attended the Carnival at Oberleutensdorf, and left at Dux a manuscript headed ‘Passe temps de Jacques Casanova de Seingalt pour le carnaval de l’an 1792 dans le bourg d’Oberleutensdorf’.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
Il mio padre e maestro della chiesa Metropolitana, che mi da l'occasione di scrivere per la chiesa, quanto che ne voglio.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Les mails que j'échangeais avec les gens de B-52, la radio libre et clandestine de Serbie, pendant le conflit du Kosovo.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
at said it (so did [802] Erasmus excuse himself to Dorpius, si parva licet componere magnis ) and so do I; but let him be angry with himself, that so betrayed and opened his own faults in applying it to himself:
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
no’ desmourasmes quatre iors ettendauntz de savoir plus la c’tein de lui le quel Roi vint
— from A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Anonymous
WAR EAGLE—(Second)—Built at Cincinnati, winter of 1853-4; side-wheel; 219 feet long, 29 feet beam, 296 tons; had 46 staterooms; 3 boilers, 14 feet long; in Minnesota Packet Company, Captain D. Smith Harris, Galena & St. Paul, 1854, 1855, 1856; made the run from Galena to St. Paul, 1855, in 44 hours, handling all way freight; 1857, Captain Kingman, Clerks Coffin and Ball, in Dunleith & St. Paul Line; Captain W. H. Gabbert, 1858, same line; La Crosse Line 1859; Captain J. B. Davis, 1860, in La Crosse Line; spring of 1861 started out from La Crosse with following roster of officers: Captain A. Mitchell, Clerk Sam Cook, Second Clerk E. A. Johnson, Pilots Jackson Harris, and William Fisher; Engineers Troxell and Wright; Steward Frank Norris; later in the season Captain Mitchell was succeeded by Captain Chas.
— from Old Times on the Upper Mississippi The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863 by George Byron Merrick
Here, at his open door, stood Padre Luca, confessing priest of the castle.
— from Vassall Morton: A Novel by Francis Parkman
Roger ne répondit rien; seulement il entr’ouvrit sa veste et me laissa voir dans sa poche la crosse luisante d’un pistolet.
— from Le Petit Chose (Histoire d'un Enfant) by Alphonse Daudet
'Avreste forse illustrissimi Signori potuto scegliere molte persone piu degne dell' ufficcio di Segretario per la corrispondenza straniera; ma non sarebbe, son certo, stato possibile di trovar alcuno dal quale questa distinzione sarebbe stata piu stimata.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by James Boswell
Only once or twice in a lifetime does the forest dweller see poplar leaves curl up and die like that, baked to death in the summer sun.
— from Nomads of the North: A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars by James Oliver Curwood
Cest ar cle est impossible en toutes ses parties, car les estrangers ne peuvent en ung mois se retirer, ilz ne peuvent ny ne doibvent sortir par le chemin qui leur sera prescript sinon quilz veulent se precipiter
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson
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