La República Argentina, política y socialmente disuelta, al mismo tiempo que sus hijos ausentes emancipaban lejanos pueblos, no podía enviar nuevos contingentes a su ejército libertador de los Andes.
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López
Some years afterwards, passing through this sierra on March 1st, we found the three stacks occupied as before, each nest containing a single egg.
— from Wild Spain (España agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Abel Chapman
Encouraged by this success, the Emperor next caused a similar exhibition of French painters to be arranged.
— from William of Germany by Stanley Shaw
In the large hall on the ground floor there was a small coloured statuette of the Maharajah on horseback, photographs and portraits upon the walls, including English miniatures of an English officer and his ladies of the early nineteenth century, and some engravings of portraits of Queen Caroline.
— from India Impressions, With some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7. by Walter Crane
Didn't I give 'em new clothes an' send 'em boxes of oranges an' keep up their life insurance?
— from Mothers to Men by Zona Gale
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