What's to hinder 'em from cutting right and left if they begin?
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

En fait cette radio émettait déjà d'un avion de l'OTAN (Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique Nord).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

[“The House then proceeding upon the debate touching the Election for Castle Rising, between Mr. Pepys and Mr. Offley, did, in the first place, take into consideration what related personally to Mr. Pepys.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The English fleet cruised round the island, supporting the Austrians and isolating the Spaniards, none of whom were permitted to withdraw before peace was made.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

I suggest, therefore, the possibility, should some two or three really original American poets, (perhaps artists or lecturers,) arise, mounting the horizon like planets, stars of the first magnitude, that, from their eminence, fusing contributions, races, far localities, &c., together, they would give more compaction and more moral identity, (the quality to-day most needed,) to these States, than all its Constitutions, legislative and judicial ties, and all its hitherto political, warlike, or materialistic experiences.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

In November, 1673, Pepys was more successful, and was elected for Castle Rising on the elevation of the member, Sir Robert Paston, to the peerage as Viscount Yarmouth.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

De tomber systématiquement sur des sites pornos ou de pédophilie en faisant certaines requêtes anodines.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

], twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes; be rightly served; be electrocuted, fry [coll.], ride the lightning [coll.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

2883 With reference to these divisions of land and sea, a subject which is involved in the greatest obscurity, Parisot states it as his opinion that the Amalchian or Icy Sea is that portion of the Baltic which extends from Cape Rutt to Cape Grinea, while on the other hand the Cronian Sea comprehends all the gulfs which lie to the east of Cape Rutt, such as the Haff, the gulfs of Stettin and Danzic, the Frisch-Haff, and the Kurisch-Haff.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

[HH] "Their weares in which they take their fish, which are certain enclosures made with reedes, and framed in the fashion of a laborinth or maze, sett a fathome deepe in the water, with divers chambers or bedds, out of which the entangled fish cannot returne or gett out, being once in.
— from Colonial Records of Virginia by Various

what an indescribable pain must wring his soul; how involuntarily the plaintive words of the Psalmist must rise upon his lips, " Super flumina Babylonis, illic sedimus, et flevimus, cum recordaremur Sion! "
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

The cross-references are probably an error for "Cliff ruins."
— from The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Cosmos Mindeleff

"Nice little English flappers," Constance remarked approvingly.
— from The Spanish Chest by Edna A. Brown

At the bottom of the Atlantic there exists a remarkable plateau, extending from Cape Race in Newfoundland, to Cape Clear in Ireland, a distance of over two thousand miles, with a breadth of four hundred and seventy miles: its mean depth along the whole route is estimated at two miles to two miles and a half.
— from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. by Louis Figuier

Instructed, educated, practised, experienced, finished, consummate, ripe, thorough-bred, versed, qualified, proficient, able, clever, apt, adroit, expert, talented, skilful.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

So boundless a voracity has this plant, that it wholly expels from certain regions another and less tenacious variety of the Gramineæ, the Saccharum , or Sapa .
— from The Desert World by Arthur Mangin

Excerpts from case records of one research center show the high counts found in several patients and the source of the radium or thorium (a closely related element) that their bodies had taken up: Case Body burden in disintegrating atoms per second Born 1900, drank 210 bottles of “Radithor” in 1927 [2] 63,640 Born 1897, drank approximately 78 ounces of “Radium Water” in 1932 [2] 32,780 Born 1925, worked as radium chemist since 1946 14,800 Born 1922, radium chemist for 7 years 7,000 Born 1898, two injections of “Thorotrast” for X-ray diagnosis 3,300 Born 1898, radium dial painter in watch factory, 1918 to 1921 72,500 Born 1902, radium dial painter for 4½ months in 1924 1,924 17 Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, have attempted to improve crystal whole body counters so that they will be more useful in determining the amount of radium-226 in humans.
— from Whole Body Counters by F. W. (Frederick W.) Lengemann

And the War on our part, while for the integrity of the Union in all its parts—for the life of the Nation itself, and for the freedom of man, should also have brought the triumph of the American idea of a Protective Tariff, whose chief object is the building up of American manufactures and the Protection of the Free working-man, in the essential matters of education, food, clothing, rents, wages, and work.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan