CHAPTER XLIX In Which We Enjoy Three Courses and a Dessert When the ladies of Gaunt House were at breakfast that morning, Lord Steyne (who took his chocolate in private and seldom disturbed the females of his household, or saw them except upon public days, or when they crossed each other in the hall, or when from his pit-box at the opera he surveyed them in their box on the grand tier) his lordship, we say, appeared among the ladies and the children who were assembled over the tea and toast, and a battle royal ensued apropos of Rebecca.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
La Roche. L'esprit est une plante dont on ne sauroit arrêter
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.
Sucedió que iba a pasar la noche en una posada donde la huéspeda era mujer de lindo entendimiento, lindo modo y mucho agrado.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler
LA PORTERÍA DEL CIELO El tío Paciencia era un pobre zapatero que vivía y trabajaba en un portal de Madrid.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler
no ha visto nada, ni ha estado en París.... 10 —También dijo con mucha delicadeza que Orbajosa era un pueblo de mendigos, y dió a entender que aquí vivimos en la mayor miseria sin darnos cuenta de ello.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
lo que he leído en la vida de los mártires, cuando se presentaba un procónsul romano en un pueblo de cristianos....
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
También suele comprar calderas, pailas y sartenes viejas en una parte de la Isla, para venderlas por
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
cicuye es un pueblo de hasta quinientos hombres de guerra es temido por toda aquella tierra en su sitio es quadrado asentado sobre peña en medio
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship
[55] These were greatly admired, and elicited the following, amongst innumerable other tributes of praise:— Son genre a été une innovation et une preuve de bravoure, comme tous les actes d’indépendance dans l’ordre moral et artistique.
— from Kate Greenaway by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann
Como se ve, aquel instante de la historia es un punto de empalme en el cual los destinos del continente estuvieron en peligro de tomar otro carril que hubiera llevado las ideas y los hombres por otros campos de la acción política y social, transformando la vida de medio hemisferio y afectando tal vez seriamente la suerte de las instituciones democráticas en los Estados Unidos.
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López
Pues esto que parece increíble, es con todo, la ciencia vulgar; éste era un peón de arria,
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López
The sufferings entailed upon poor debtors and their families appealed forcibly to good people and produced much spontaneous assistance.
— from Non-Criminal Prisons English Debtor's Prisons and Prisons of War; French War Prisons; American War Prisons with References to Those of Other Lands by Arthur Griffiths
On the first point, I dissent from them altogether: on the second, I agree with them thus far — that I consider the two dialogues inferior works of Plato:— much inferior to his greatest and best compositions, — certainly displaying both less genius and less careful elaboration — probably among his early performances — perhaps even unfinished projects, destined for a farther elaboration, which they never received, and not published until after his decease.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2 by George Grote
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