En quoi consiste exactement votre activité liée à l'internet?
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
In this earth sow some seeds that have a congruity or homogeneity with the disease; then let this earth, well sifted and mixed with mummy, be laid in an earthen vessel; and let the seeds committed to it be watered daily with a lotion in which the diseased limb or body has been washed.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay
The documents, [94] too, from which the doctrine is to be drawn, charmed my fancy by their endless variety, and lay always before me, even in sleep; for they are the tools in our hands, the bread in our basket, the transactions of the street, the farm, and the dwelling-house, greetings, relations, debts and credits, the influence of character, the nature and endowment of all men.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
= En quoi consiste exactement votre activité liée à l'internet?
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
Unternehmen aufgeben abandon an enterprise ein unwiderrufliches Akkreditiv bestätigen to confirm an irrevocable credit ein Urteil bestätigen to affirm a judgment ein Verbot aufheben lift a ban ein Vermögen ansammeln amass a fortune ein Vermögen ansammeln hoard up a treasure ein Vermögen erwerben gain a fortune ein Vermögen erwerben to gain a furtune ein Versicherungsinteresse an der Ware an isurable interest in the goods ein Versprechen der Bank an undertaking of the bank ein Versprechen halten to keep a promise ein Versuch aufzunehmen an attempt to include ein Waggon geeigneter Größe a wagon of suitable size ein Waggon von geeigneter
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig
The eyes, erewhile vacant and lustreless, now glowed with the fire of intelligence; his tongue, of which he had almost lost the use—the only words which he used to utter being, “Now here, now gone!”—was now relaxed: in a word, he was restored to his senses.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day
El viaje a la capital se hace recorriendo una hermosa y fertilísima región.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
yet, if men were only anxious to cultivate each virtue, and let it take root firmly in the mind, the grace resulting from it, its natural exteriour mark, would soon strip affectation of its flaunting plumes; because, fallacious as unstable, is the conduct that is not founded upon truth!
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft
From the moment when I had discovered that the expected visitor at Limmeridge was Miss Fairlie's future husband, I had felt a bitter curiosity, a burning envious eagerness, to know who he was.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
"I want to speak to you," said the young man, lowering his earnest voice a little, "about your friend, Miss Colwyn."
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant
Their diet is of the plainest kind, and entirely vegetable; animal life being held too sacred among them for the purposes of food, and therefore of course interdicted to all who would adopt their mode of life.
— from The Lives of the Saints, Volume 02 (of 16): February by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
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— from Manual for the Solution of Military Ciphers by Parker Hitt
We also made a short expedition with our host, to the crater of an extinct volcano, and looked with wonder, upon the vast basin, which had once—long, long ago, perhaps—vomited fire and lava upon the plains below.
— from Barney Blake, the Boy Privateer; or, The Cruise of the Queer Fish by Herrick Johnstone
Put the lid on the stewpan and braize well for fifteen minutes, then stir in a tablespoonful of flour, and pour in a quarter pint of good boiling stock and boil very gently for fifteen minutes, then strain through a tamis, skim off all the grease, pour the sauce into an earthenware vessel, and let it get cold.
— from The Cook's Decameron A Study in Taste, Containing over Two Hundred Recipes for Italian Dishes by Waters, W. G., Mrs.
There is, to take one example, the well-known case of Curmer’s 1838 edition of Paul et Virginie and La Chaumière Indienne superbly illustrated by Meissonier, Tony Johannot, Huet, and others.
— from Suppressed Plates, Wood-engravings, &c. Together with Other Curiosities Germane Thereto; Being an Account of Certain Matters Peculiarly Alluring to the Collector by George Somes Layard
(but he is) a book-character, extraordinarily vivid and living though he be....
— from Turgenev: A Study by Edward Garnett
This group formed an assemblage of charms which would have raised palpitations and excited mysterious fires in the heart of the most heaven-devoted anchorite that ever vowed a life of virgin-purity.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds
The pack which you bear, of earthly vanities and loves, and sinful habits, will be brushed off your shoulders in that narrow entrance, like the hay off a cart in a country lane bordered by high hedges.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren
Leonard Upjohn in his intricate style drew graceful little pictures of Cronshaw in the Latin Quarter, talking, writing poetry: Cronshaw became a picturesque figure, an English Verlaine; and Leonard Upjohn's coloured phrases took on a tremulous dignity, a more pathetic grandiloquence, as he described the sordid end, the shabby little room in Soho; and, with a reticence which was wholly charming and suggested a much greater generosity than modesty allowed him to state, the efforts he made to transport the Poet to some cottage embowered with honeysuckle amid a flowering orchard.
— from Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
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