» Développez un peu cette histoire.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Employez les mots soulignés dans une phrase.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

20 Hay allí un aduar de pastores y labriegos árabes, llamado «Medik», compuesto de algunas chozas, de un morabito o ermita mahometana, y de un pozo de agua potable, con su brocal de piedra
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Now, try to discover the smallest sum of money that can be written down under precisely the same conditions.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Such evenings are long and dreary, unless people can find something to do; and so Anthony found it.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

nat. & 11. de usu partium) is a nourishment most perfectly elaboured by nature.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Esas bellezas, fuera de la imponente arquitectura de una parte del edificio y de los tres sepulcros que hay en 15 las capillas del ábside y de algunos entalles del coro, yo no las veo en ninguna parte.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Thus, these four lines, in her mouth, were madly gay,— Un cofre de gran riqueza Hallaron dentro un pilar, Dentro del, nuevas banderas Con figuras de espantar .
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

In a voice that was at once anxious and mocking, Lagardere cried to the duke: "Unnatural parent, do you wish to kill your child?" The last word stopped Nevers like a blow.
— from The Duke's Motto: A Melodrama by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy

His parting from her was most friendly, and the pressure of his hand warm and strong, but Annie felt, with a deep, unsatisfied pain at heart, that it was all too formal.
— from Opening a Chestnut Burr by Edward Payson Roe

The surplus prisoners not exchanged shall not be permitted to take up arms again, nor to serve as military police or constabulary force in any fort, garrison or field-work, held by either of the respective parties, nor as guards of prisoners, deposits or stores, nor to discharge any duty usually performed by soldiers, until exchanged under the provisions of this cartel.
— from Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy

He now entered upon the most brilliant episode of his administration,—the annexation of Louisiana; and that transaction was carried out and defended upon precisely the grounds of loose construction which he had so much contemned.
— from Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 by Albert Bushnell Hart

—Bill towards the end decurved; upper part of the throat, and a band from the bill to the eye, light buff; general plumage, {176} pale reddish-brown; head and neck streaked with dusky; upper parts marked with blackish-brown; tail barred with the same; abdomen, plain reddish-brown; feet, bluish.
— from The Game-Birds of the Coasts and Lakes of the Northern States of America A full account of the sporting along our sea-shores and inland waters, with a comparison of the merits of breech-loaders and muzzle-loaders by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

The Venetian ambassador wrote in 1563: “In quel tempo medesimo fu tra questi principalmente, che cercorno di seminar la false dottrina un predicator della regina di Navarra, madre del presente re di Navarra, nominate Ugo, il quale alienò prima l’animo di quella regina dalla religion cattolica, e poi cercò d’alienare e di corromper, come fece, infiniti altri uomini e donne delli più grandi.”—
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

The pitying Guard Said: ‘Stay (the while his hand the door unbarred), p. 48
— from Poems of Purpose by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

As I have paired with Lord Limerick (who has married a Miss Colquhoun of Cannes, and prefers bondage at his father-in-law's villa to the protection of the land-league in his ancestral domain, and who would support the Bill), I have virtually paired against it, and am, I dare say, the only peer on that side, unless Henry Stanley[ 72 ] escapes from Clare, where he is detained, under pretence of Boycotting, by the transparent artifices of friends.... { 65} I was prepared to believe the Standard account by a visit from Wolverton, who offered to show me his last letter from Downing Street, and I told him I thought he could do it.
— from Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron