↑ 63 “Ces danseurs et ces danseuses ont tous des ongles faux, et fort longs, de cuivre jaune.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

First Lid, De, Cow, Ker, Doll, a fifth: Lidwell, Si Dedalus, Bob Cowley, Kernan and big Ben Dollard.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

[FR, EN] [FR] Christiane Jadelot (Nancy) #Ingénieur d'études à l'INaLF (Institut national de la langue française) Laboratoire du CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), l'INaLF a pour mission de développer des programmes de recherche sur la langue française, tout particulièrement son lexique.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

“Against our coast appears a spacious land, Which once the fierce Lycurgus did command, Thracia the name; the people bold in war; Vast are their fields, and tillage is their care, A hospitable realm while Fate was kind, With Troy in friendship and religion join’d.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

En bref, on peut se demander si, au lieu de favoriser la diversité culturelle, le droit d'auteur ne sert pas principalement à la constitution d'immenses conglomérats de distribution qui imposent des produits standardisés.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

En un mot, I’ve read that some verger in one of our Russian churches abroad— mais c’est très curieux —drove, literally drove a distinguished English family, les dames charmantes , out of the church before the beginning of the Lenten service … vous savez ces chants et le livre de Job … on the simple pretext that ‘foreigners are not allowed to loaf about a Russian church, and that they must come at the time fixed.…’
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A while discourse they hold; No fear lest dinner cool; when thus began Our author.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

The Testimony of two Dromintee Percipients After my friend, the Rev. Father L. Donnellan, C.C., of Dromintee, County Armagh, had introduced me to Alice Cunningham, of his parish, and she had told much about [Pg 76] the ‘gentle folk’, she emphatically declared that they do exist—and this in the presence of Father Donnellan—because she has often seen them on Carrickbroad Mountain, near where she lives.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

On either side the boys had fitted up small bunks that served for lounging during calm weather, and in the middle of this space, on the centreboard box, they had arranged a table on which stood a small oil stove.
— from A Voyage with Captain Dynamite by Charles Edward Rich

"This summer, in a beautiful shady place, near a syringa thicket, she made a house out of a big box for a mother hen who had fifteen little downy chicks, and every day when she fed the chickens she left enough food so that the birds could [Pg 209] have some, too.
— from Birds and Nature, Vol. 08, No. 5, December 1900 Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

A few leisurely dandies, clad in white duck, with flowing neckties, and swinging slim bamboo canes, threaded the grassy by-ways toward the houses of their favoured señoritas.
— from Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry

Bear in mind how they clung to Davis and how they still remember him, winning the precious eulogy “—he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place
— from The Brothers' War by John C. (John Calvin) Reed

Their rates were moderately lower than for long distance calls, but it was hard to find the relationship between real costs and prices.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): developed countries 5%; developing countries 100%, with wide variations (1990 est.) _#_Unemployment rate: NA% _#_Exports: $3.33 trillion (f.o.b., 1990 est.); commodities—the whole range of industrial and agricultural goods and services; partners—in value, 74% of exports from industrial countries _#_Imports: $3.45 trillion (c.i.f., 1990 est.); commodities—the whole range of industrial and agricultural goods and services; partners—in value, about 75% of imports by the industrial countries _#_External debt: $1.0 trillion for less developed countries (1990 est.) _#_Industrial production: growth rate 3% (1990 est.) _#_Electricity: 2,864,000,000 kW capacity; 11,450,000 million kWh produced, 2,150 kWh per capita (1990) _#_Industries: chemicals, energy, machinery, electronics, metals, mining, textiles, food processing _#_Agriculture: cereals (wheat, maize, rice), sugar, livestock products, tropical crops, fruit, vegetables, fish _#_Economic aid: NA _*
— from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Then the culprit, kneeling on the floor, with a face like discolored clay, felt his heart leap to his throat.
— from Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Embracing a Full Exposition of the Principles of Rhetorical Reading; with Numerous Exercises for Practice, Both in Prose and Poetry, Various in Style, and Carefully Adapted to the Purposes of Teaching in Schools of Every Grade by Charles W. (Charles Walton) Sanders

By Charlotte of Bourbon, his third wife, he had six daughters; and by his fourth, Louisa de Coligny, one son, Frederic William, afterwards stadholder of the Republic in her most palmy days.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley

The officer had ordered topgallant-yards to be sent down, and topgallant-masts struck, when a vivid flash of forked lightning darted close ahead, across the ship’s course, followed by a terrific crash of thunder, which startled all on board.
— from Ronald Morton; or, the Fire Ships: A Story of the Last Naval War by William Henry Giles Kingston

Jeanne Françoise Louise de Chateaubriand, niece of the Vicomte de Chateaubriand.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse De Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1841-1850 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de