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Las construcciones terminan hacia el fondo en la cocina, habitaciones de servicio, patio y demás dependencias.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
Every fence, every log cabin had been transfigured, touched with a glory almost beyond this world.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll
Perhaps she had never received before such a tribute to her charms as when the chef, rolling his fine eyes languishingly, confessed himself to be wax in her hands, and ready to yield up one of the secrets of his profession without the bribe of gold.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 20, No. 33, November 1877 by Various
In this respect there exists a logical difference of fundamental importance between those cases of so-called “partial” or better, “fragmental” development of isolated blastomeres in which a certain embryonic organ is wanting on account of its specific morphogenetic material being absent, and those cases in which the “fragmental” embryo lacks complete “halves” or “quarters” with regard to general symmetry on account of the symmetry of its intimate structure being irregularly disturbed.
— from The Science and Philosophy of the Organism by Hans Driesch
There was at that time an enthusiasm among Oriental scholars, particularly at Calcutta, and an interest for Oriental antiquities in the public at large, of which we in these days of apathy for Eastern literature can hardly form an adequate idea.
— from Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 5 Miscellaneous Later Essays by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
In Switzerland, indeed, this soon became a source of inconvenience, for every little club had its championships which professed to cover a far larger area than fact warranted.
— from Ski-running by Willi Rickmer Rickmers
Because of this genuine love for nature and his tender regard for every living creature, he could not share his companions' pleasure in hunting expeditions.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
“Oh, no, father!” exclaimed Lola, catching his hand anxiously; “do go on, it’s very interesting.”
— from Lola by Owen Davis
Indeed, it became a rule well known over the whole parish; for every little child having been informed of this story, was told that he ought to consider, before he did any action, whether he would like his brother, or sister, or school-fellow to do the same by him; and if not, that the action was wrong, and not to be done, let the profit be ever so great.
— from Stories for the Young; Or, Cheap Repository Tracts Entertaining, Moral, and Religious. Vol. VI. by Hannah More
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