He has been collecting postage-stamps for more than two years now; and he already has hundreds of them from every country, in a large album, which he will [53] sell to a bookseller later on, when he has got it quite full.
— from Cuore (Heart): An Italian Schoolboy's Journal by Edmondo De Amicis
Created in 1991 and widely used since 1998, Unicode is an encoding system that gives a unique number for every character in any language, contrary to the much older ASCII that was meant only for English and a few European languages.
— from Project Gutenberg (1971-2008) by Marie Lebert
Miss Snaith and I clashed early on the subject of fresh air; but I intend to get rid of this dreadful institution smell, if I freeze every child into a little ice statue.
— from Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
Phebe Braley had a full figure—she was almost stout—a body of the frankest emphasized curves in a long purple coat with a collar of soiled white fur.
— from The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer
Unicode is an encoding system created in 1991 that gives a unique number for every character in any language.
— from Project Gutenberg (1971-2005) by Marie Lebert
She brought the milk mixed with cream for each cousin in a large silver goblet, after heating it carefully in the bain-marie .
— from Pierrette by Honoré de Balzac
Unicode is an encoding system that gives a unique number for every character in any language.
— from Technology and Books for All by Marie Lebert
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