He represents culture, refinement, elevated sentiment, polite life, religion; and by his example he propagates these, and they spread and flourish and bear good fruit.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain
Y como si no fuese bastante el fruto de la tierra, discurren por entre los cafetales bandadas de gallinas comunes y de guinea, o pintadas, grandes perdices de este suelo privilegiado; los ánades, patos y gansos forman en pos de ellas
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
elevation, erection; square, plumb line, plummet.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
Lasten , v. to follow out, last, endure, S, PP; lesten , S, S2; last , pr. s. , S, C2; lest , S; laste ,
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
Par ailleurs, je note, je rature, je corrige, je développe… bref mes premières phases de création passent encore systématiquement par le papier avant la phase de saisie de mes textes.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
Note 101 ( return ) [ Omnis homo ex sua proprietate legitimam decimam ad ecclesiam conferat.
— 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
R117944, 23Sep53, Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) ltd. (PWH) The passage of the Red Sea.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals: Artwork 1951-1959 Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
"I see you right enough!" shouted Peter, laughing as he dropped from his horse.
— from A Boy of the Dominion: A Tale of Canadian Immigration by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
W. EDWARD & SON, Props., London, Eng.
— from Harper's Round Table, February 4, 1896 by Various
The peaks that stood over us were of the most eccentric shapes, pointing like grey and brown battlements up into the unclouded sky, and flowers of every description blossomed beside our path.
— from A Lady's Tour in Corsica, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Gertrude Forde
R117931, 23Sep53, Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) ltd. (PWH) The capture of Jerusalem from the Jebusites.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals: Artwork 1951-1959 Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
After a most unfair trial, nothing tangible being found against him except some private letters to General Monk, in which he expressed himself favourable to Cromwell, he was found guilty, and condemned to death.
— from Bygone Scotland: Historical and Social by David Maxwell
Wilson, the historian, has recorded a providential escape which befell him in the hazardous sport, while a youth, and follower of the Earl of Essex: 'Sir Peter Lee, of Lime, in Cheshire, invited my lord one summer to hunt the stagg.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott
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