[379] COLD SAUCE FOR BOILED SUCKLING PIG JUS PORRO [1] FRIGIDUM IN PORCELLUM ELIXUM CRUSH PEPPER, CARRAWAY, DILL, LITTLE ORIGANY, PINE NUTS, MOISTEN WITH VINEGAR, BROTH [2], DATE WINE, HONEY, PREPARED MUSTARD; SPRINKLE WITH A LITTLE OIL, PEPPER, AND SERVE.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

This I measure that I may know the growth of nails; the whole is about five eighths of an inch.' Another of the same kind appears, 'Aug. 7, 1779, Partem brachii dextri carpo proximum et cutem pectoris circa mamillam dextram rasi, ut notum fieret quanto temporis pili renovarentur.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Among other things, they pried out, in a corner, an earthen cup, partly corroded and partly encrusted, and one whispered to the other, that this cup was just such a one as might, in mockery, be offered to the lips of some brazen statue, or, perhaps, still worse.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

These are found in various school editions, Standard English Classics, Pocket Classics, Riverside Literature Series, etc.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

If it goes at once Ellen can probably catch tomorrow morning's train."
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Initā aestāte Caesar litterīs certior fīēbat et per explōrātōrēs cognōscēbat plūrīs cīvitātēs Galliae novīs rēbus studēre, 1 et contrā populum Rōmānum coniūrāre 1 obsidēsque 2 inter sē dare, 1 atque cum hīs Germānōs quōsdam quoque sēsē coniūnctūrōs esse.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Una carta trimestral, tan puntualmente escrita como puntualmente contestada, ponía en comunicación aquellos dos corazones, 15 cuya ternura ni el tiempo
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The subject matter of education consists primarily Chapter Fifteen: Play and Work in the Curriculum Summary.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

On construit une base de documents, où chaque fichier est structuré (à la HTML) et contient, pour chaque énoncé, l'énoncé original, sa structure UNL, et autant de traductions qu'on en a obtenu.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

oppressive, burdensome, onerous; malign &c. (malevolent) 907. corrupting &c. (corrupt &c. 659); virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive; poisonous &c. (morbific) 657[obs3]; deadly &c. (killing) 361; destructive &c. (destroying) 162; inauspicious &c. 859.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The subject of this chapter will, perhaps, be more easy of comprehension to the English reader if he will for a moment surrender his imagination into my charge while we transfer to England certain political conditions of the United States.
— from The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson

Inflation rate - consumer price index: NA% Labor force: total: 12,000 by occupation: animal husbandry and subsistence farming 50% Unemployment rate: NA% Budget: revenues: $NA expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA Industries: phosphate mining, handicrafts Industrial production growth rate: NA% Electricity - capacity: 56,000 kW (1995) Electricity - production: 85 million kWh (1995) Electricity - consumption per capita: NA kWh Agriculture - products: fruits and vegetables (grown in the few oases); camels, sheep, goats (kept by the nomads) Exports: $NA commodities: phosphates 62% partners:
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Savill, Edwards & Co., Printers, Chandos Street. CONTENTS.
— from The Carpenter's Daughter by Susan Warner

Industries: food processing, wood and paper products, textiles, machinery, transportation equipment, banking and insurance, tourism, mining Industrial production growth rate: NA% Electricity - capacity: 7.75 million kW (1994) Electricity - production: 34.4 billion kWh (1995) Electricity - consumption per capita: 9,198 kWh (1995 est.)
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Vergine saggia, e del bel numero una Delle beata vergini prudenti; Anzi la prima, e con più chiara lampa;
— from Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller

Industries: food processing, textiles and clothing, construction materials, fertilizer, plastic products Industrial production growth rate: 10.5% (1992) Electricity - capacity: 1,113,900 kW (1995) Electricity - production: 5.138 billion kWh (1995) Electricity - consumption per capita: 1,330 kWh (1995 est.)
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The English comic papers can command all the abounding talent 6 of men like Douglas Jerrold, Albert Smith, W. M. Thackeray, Mark Lemon, Shirley Brooks, Thomas Hood, F. Burnand, and a host of other satirists.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

It was a fortnight ere Cadet Prescott could feel really secure against more "joshing" over the incident.
— from Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point; Or, Two Chums in the Cadet Gray by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

Corrections by the original scribe, or [pg 055] by a contemporary reviser, where they can be satisfactorily distinguished, must be regarded as a portion of the testimony of the manuscript itself, inasmuch as every carefully prepared copy was reviewed and compared (ἀντεβλήθη), if not by the writer himself, by a skilful person appointed for the task (ὁ διορθῶν, ὁ διορθωτής), whose duty it was to amend manifest errors, sometimes also to insert ornamental capitals in places which had been reserved for them; in later times (and as some believe at a very early period) to set in stops, breathings and accents; in copies destined for ecclesiastical use to arrange the musical notes that were to guide the intonation of the reader.
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

The Unconscious Humorists Cousin Pons Camusot A Distinguished Provincial at Paris A Bachelor’s Establishment Cousin Pons Cesar Birotteau At the Sign of the Cat and Racket Cardot (Parisian notary) A Man of Business Jealousies of a Country Town Pierre Grassou The Middle Classes Cousin Pons Chargeboeuf, Melchior-Rene, Vicomte de The Member for Arcis Falcon, Jean The Chouans Cousin Betty Grosstete (younger brother of F. Grosstete) The Country Parson Hulot (Marshal) The Chouans Cousin Betty La Baudraye, Madame Polydore Milaud de A Prince of Bohemia Cousin Betty Lebas Cousin Betty Listomere, Baronne de The Vicar of Tours Cesar Birotteau Lousteau, Etienne A Distinguished Provincial at Paris A Bachelor’s Establishment Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life A Daughter of Eve Beatrix Cousin Betty A Prince of Bohemia A Man of Business The Middle Classes The Unconscious Humorists Lupeaulx, Clement Chardin des Eugenie Grandet A Bachelor’s Establishment A Distinguished Provincial at Paris The Government Clerks Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Ursule Mirouet Maufrigneuse, Duchesse de The Secrets of a Princess Modeste Mignon Jealousies of a Country Town Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Letters of Two Brides Another Study of Woman The Gondreville Mystery The Member for Arcis Milaud Lost Illusions Nathan, Raoul Lost Illusions A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Scenes
— from The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac