Under exceptional circumstances, however—for example, when the potato crop fails, or, in the case of individuals, when the diet has been unduly restricted, scurvy will be encountered.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess
25 Volvíme a los soldados, y les dije con tono de voz que hubiera conmovido a una piedra: —¡Españoles, compatriotas, hermanos!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
[81-3] ¡Por esa cuenta, habría que mandar [81-4] todos los años a África, a los descendientes de los moros, las rentas que produjesen las vegas de Granada, de Guadix [81-5] y de centenares de pueblos!...
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
El Comité hervía de gente [1] de toda clase.—
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
Elizabeth could hardly help laughing at so convenient a proposal; yet was really vexed that her mother should be always giving him such an epithet.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
exclaimed Cora, her cheeks flushing, and her dark eyes once more sparkling with the lingering emotions of a woman.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper
Hawke's diligence had brought him up with Conflans, who, in his official reports, says he had considered it impossible that the enemy could have in that neighborhood forces superior or even equal to his own.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
The opinion was given very strongly that no instrument of the kind, so perfect in theory and in execution, could have been even imagined in those days, and that nothing of such scientific quality could have been made except by the Jesuits.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa
fiesta de Corpus, los habitantes de Quito beben el champús , hecho con gachas de harina de maíz, mezcladas con jugo de naranjilla.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
In the East he fixed a line of camps from Egypt to the Persian dominions, and for every camp, he instituted an adequate number of stationary troops, commanded by their respective officers, and supplied with every kind of arms, from the new arsenals which he had formed at Antioch, Emesa, and Damascus.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon
But her own and her father's manner had evidently chilled him, and he soon took his leave.
— from From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe
Givenchy may appear but an incident in a long chain of operations when one is taking a bird's-eye view of the campaign on the Western Front as a whole, but it was in reality a very considerable and sanguinary battle, the story of which should appeal to every Canadian heart.
— from Canada in Flanders, Volume I by Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron
“I have never had to give up anything in all my life so that some one else could have it.”
— from The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine by Katherine Stokes
He was exceedingly angry; no human being had ever cut him before, and he flushed with mortification.
— from The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Edgar Jepson
When Edmund called him "deah man" there was nothing on earth that Mr. Wycherly could withhold.
— from Miss Esperance and Mr Wycherly by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker
But how else could he carry out his sacred obligation to Burlock?
— from Dorothy Dale: A Girl of To-Day by Margaret Penrose
If you had known, all would have suspected; 'A woman's eyes cannot hide it when she loves.'
— from The Thrall of Leif the Lucky: A Story of Viking Days by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz
A bird adapted to feed on the fruits produced by these forests would, in that equable climate, have no occasion to migrate to distant lands; it would revel in the perpetual luxuries of tropical vegetation, and would have but little need of locomotion.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 399, January 1849 by Various
11 Locke, Essay concerning Human Understanding , ii. 21. 30 ( Philosophical Works , p. 219).
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck
From this description the reader will see how the various gift enterprises, under whatever name they are presented, are managed, and how certain he is to lose every cent he invests in them.
— from The Secrets of the Great City A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City by James Dabney McCabe
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