Le paysan le fit, et le pore se tut; puis, s'adressant à Charles-Quint: «Il faut, lui dit-il, que vous ayez[1] appris le métier plus longtemps que moi, monsieur, car vous le savez beaucoup mieux.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

La solution proposée par Mot@mot consiste à découper le livre, mot à mot, du début à la fin (enfin, les pages scannées du livre…).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

But everywhere in Ariège one finds every little property support three times as many beasts as the soil can well sustain; the result is lean cattle, giving poor meat and milk, giving consequently but an insufficient return of revenue.
— from A Book of the Pyrenees by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Certainly the world cannot remain as before: great powers struggling for empire; lesser powers struggling for their separate existence; great areas of backward peoples viewed as subjects for exploitation; we ourselves aloof.
— from The Ethics of Coöperation by James Hayden Tufts

The frost exploded like pistol shots under her feet.
— from Christmas Eve at Swamp's End by Norman Duncan

‘It would be well to be quit yourself of the fellow ere leaving Paris,’ said Walsingham.
— from The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Tu dici: "Io veggio l'acqua, io veggio il foco, l'aere e la terra e tutte lor misture venire a corruzione, e durar poco; e queste cose pur furon creature; per che, se cio` ch'e` detto e` stato vero, esser dovrien da corruzion sicure". Li angeli, frate, e 'l paese sincero nel qual tu se', dir si posson creati, si` come sono, in loro essere intero; ma li
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri

"L'inutilité de la vie des femmes est la premier source de leurs désordres."
— from Marriage by Susan Ferrier

We find even Lord Palmerston suggesting that the idea of a French Ambassador should be entertained, for compelling the Northern States to let cotton from the South make its way to Europe.
— from Lord Palmerston by Anthony Trollope

My reading is literal, of basta la fe del povere sevedore , which is intelligible, and rhymes, as is not the case with basta la fede, e 'l povere se vedo , the version of Passeri.
— from Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 3 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630 by James Dennistoun

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— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker