La parte superior de su cuerpo es de un color ceniciento obscuro, con listas blancas en las alas; tiene unas manchas blancas sobre los ojos, figurando grandes cejas; su pecho es cenizoso
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
—Cada saco pesa sesenta kilos; es decir unas ciento treinta y dos libras.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
Erasmi de utilitate colloquior.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Notwithstanding the greater glory of the school at Cornwall, (of which institution we may say, in passing, there is an engraving in the board-room of the Toronto Mechanics' Institute,) the lists of the school at York always presented a strong array of the old, well-known and even distinguished, Upper Canadian names.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding
Influenza della caffeina e dell' infuso caffè sulla quantità giornaliera di urea emessa dall' uomo colle urine.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
He laid every detail under contribution towards the elucidation of the story to be told.
— from The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs, Vol. 1. (of 2) by Blanchard Jerrold
[814] The author of that terrible invective, "Le Tigre," reminds the cardinal of this crime in one of the finest outbursts of indignant reproach: "N'oys-tu pas crier le sang de celuy que tu fis estrangler dans une chambre du boys de Vincennes?
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird
Of just what tubercular matter consists, is still a subject of controversy, but that its existence depends upon certain conditions, either congenital or acquired , is generally conceded; and one of these conditions is impaired vitality.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce
A défaut de numéraire, il leur est demandé une contribution en travail.
— from Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo [and Further Correspondence] by Roger Casement
Every day unexpected complications would arise; and the people at any rate, if Moses himself be supposed to be raised by his inspiration above the needs of experience, would be able to receive the instruction they needed only in concrete examples, here a little and there a little.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Deuteronomy by Andrew Harper
U; sa prononciation, 7. --Distinction de u voyelle et de u consonne, 10. --Après f , g , q , XVII. --Prononciation de l' u , même quand il n'est pas écrit dans le mot, 9. --Ne se prononce pas dans quelques mots où il se trouve, 9.
— from An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés
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